Mythbuster

[FrontenacPike]

The Dinner Bell

I mainly fish the mississippi river and on both sides of the river are train tracks. When ever a train goes by, our little saying is "get the lines in the water...dinner bell". I can't say weather or not there is any truth behind this myth but it just seams that when ever the train roars by the fish become very active. One thought that we had, was the train creates vibrations throughout the water and it triggers a reaction of food in the area...hmmmm!!!

[DTro]

along the same lines,

We always seem to have more action after a barge goes by

[zamboni]

I fish off the end of a dock/boat landing and after boats come and go, the crappies, don't get spooked, but they seem to bite more

[bgreen82]

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My friends and I "busted a myth" a couple of years ago. Are sunfish afraid of a power auger? Belive it or not (I wouldn't have belived it) the answer is no.

Red Rock Lake, 5 FOW, strikemaster 2hp auger, drilled the first hole, dropped an Aqua Vu down, spoted a school of sunnies, kept the camera on one specific sunfish (suspended a foot or 2 off the bottom), drilled another hole right above it and the thing didnt move a muscle, I couldn't belive it.

Crappies might be different, maybe the fish's feeding mood was altered but it didn't scatter like I would have thought.

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this reminds me of a hotspotoutdoors video with dietz and dennis fishing tip ups for pike on devils lake in like 2-3 f.o.w. the guide said that occasionally they will drive the trucks around on top of the ice to get the fish to be more active.

just another way to look at it, since people always blame noise for being the reason they aren't catching.

bonus pts. for paying attention in my hso class time.

[slipperybob]

my next myth!

You cannot catch carp through ice! (I would've said catfish but that's been busted already. )

[Orlip]

Is it true when the fish breaks the line before you see it that its the "BIGGEST FISH i EVER CAUGHT" ????

[Cheif Catchemall]

WD-40 as as attractant?

Too scared to try it.

[rundrave]

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my next myth!

You cannot catch carp through ice!

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myth busted, lure i caught it on had a wax worm on it, you can see it under the fish

[CNCMike]

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Is it true when the fish breaks the line before you see it that its the "BIGGEST FISH i EVER CAUGHT" ????

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Well of course it is! Sort of... It is always "The single biggest fish I have ever had on my line or hook" If it was the biggest you ever caught, you would have a mount of it.

[slipperybob]

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my next myth!

You cannot catch carp through ice!

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myth busted, lure i caught it on had a wax worm on it, you can see it under the fish

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You no fun!!!

[stubby1]

Here is a myth I am sure everyone has heard of,I believe its true:

Wind from the west,fishing is the best

wind from the east, fish bite the least

wind from the north,do not go forth

wind from the south,blows the hook in the mouth

[CALVINIST]

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it is believed that more evolved organisms feel pain (i.e. deer) since they have more advanced brain and nervous systems.....

...Humans and other higher and more evolved animals also have stress hormones and they are associated with pain.

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One of the biggest myths out there that people just suck up to without looking into the hardcore facts is the myth of Darwinian Evolution. It is not a fact, but merely a philosophical position built on a flimsy foundation of cards. Adherents of Darwinism take scientific data and force it to fit their philosophical framework, and that's just plain bad science. The idea that I evolved from a fish is a myth. It is a philosophically incoherent point of view with scanty evidence. Sorry to be so adamant, but I used to believe the myth of Darwinian evolution for most of my adult life, so I'll blast it whenever I have the opportunity!!!

[Jeremy airjer W]

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The Dinner Bell

I mainly fish the mississippi river and on both sides of the river are train tracks. When ever a train goes by, our little saying is "get the lines in the water...dinner bell".

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Same thing happens in Prescott with trains and barges! I knew I couldn't be the only one that thought that!!

[blueroof]

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The idea that I evolved from a fish is a myth.

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Yes, I'm quite certain we evolved out of galactic spunk (of some sort)... I like your definition of scant. It is actually a myth that Darwin was against religion, if you read his papers, you will find that he was very religious and tried to set his findings as closing to the church's teaching as possible. LB

[lookincalifornia]

will a black foam bobber keep a hole from freezing over during sunny days?

[juggs]

Way to go, Casey!! I'll second your comment. The one BIG question Darwin can't answer is "Where does the increase in information come from?" They try to answer it by saying through genetic mutation, which is worse than giving no answer at all since a mutation is the copying process run amok and only REMOVES information. Darwinian biological evolution is indeed a myth and should by no means be taught in the public schools or anywhere for that matter.

[BoxMN]

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Way to go, Casey!! I'll second your comment. The one BIG question Darwin can't answer is "Where does the increase in information come from?" They try to answer it by saying through genetic mutation, which is worse than giving no answer at all since a mutation is the copying process run amok and only REMOVES information. Darwinian biological evolution is indeed a myth and should by no means be taught in the public schools or anywhere for that matter.

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I won't jump fully into this, as it's not the place but it (a mutation) is not an "increase in information" it is simply a change in genetic code. It is not called better, nor is the change called worse, but different.

The myth I would like to see busted is whether my brother really can set decoys better than me Okay, he can, but I won't tell him!

[slipperybob]

Oooh I've got one now!

If the fishes don't see me through the ice hole, then they don't know I'm up there, so my chances will increase.

[Sonicrunch]

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Way to go, Casey!! I'll second your comment. The one BIG question Darwin can't answer is "Where does the increase in information come from?" They try to answer it by saying through genetic mutation, which is worse than giving no answer at all since a mutation is the copying process run amok and only REMOVES information. Darwinian biological evolution is indeed a myth and should by no means be taught in the public schools or anywhere for that matter.

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Wow. You cultists only get you info from one source. Scary.

[Bushwacker]

The one that always gets me is when people say that they had a "huge" fish under them because it was a bright red line on their Vexilar. Some of the guys I fish with are big on this one. I hate to burst their bubbles so I never question them, but in my observations, when I use a shiner on an 1/8 oz hook, it is a really big bright red line on my Vexilar. Even a 1/32 shows up bright tipped with a wax worm. What do you guys think?

[Sutty]

I get a kick out of that one to. ie I like being able to keep the bait away from the little ones so I can catch the bigger fish.... Ha ha ha What if the fainter signal is a monster off to the side...

[juggs]

And which source would that be?.....since I didn't give one. I'm only using the evolutionist's own theory against them. They are the ones that say evolution occurs through genetic mutation and natural selection. A mutation never accounts for an increase in information. It has only ever been shown to remove it.

[juggs]

But an increase in genetic info MUST occur in order for evolution to happen. The question is where does this information come from? A human is much more complex than a single-celled critter. So if we ultimately came from them where did we get this extra DNA?

[Scott M]

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The one that always gets me is when people say that they had a "huge" fish under them because it was a bright red line on their Vexilar. Some of the guys I fish with are big on this one. I hate to burst their bubbles so I never question them, but in my observations, when I use a shiner on an 1/8 oz hook, it is a really big bright red line on my Vexilar. Even a 1/32 shows up bright tipped with a wax worm. What do you guys think?

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Good observation. It really depends on what is graphed. Flashers and sonar read density, so big fish can show up as solid red lines, just like hard, dense bottoms show up as bright red lines. A school of small fish spaced close together can be a red line. Your hook and minnow might show up as a bright red line too, but I might try and turn the gain down in that instance.

It's better to think it was a big fish though, right

[Hammer Handle]

I would like to see a myth buster on northerns losing teeth too.

They can lose teeth on prey and can shed some...but not all at one time and they continually grow back.

But, why do I find more teeth missing on pike in late January and February than any other time of the year? And, most of these fish have to be speared?

I think there is a little truth to this myth.

Last year someone told me it was a myth. I took two northerns I had just speared out of my house and shown them to him. Both were missing 1/4 of their back teeth. This was in early February. Coincidence??