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When potential predators come near the shoal, some common minnows take the risk of approaching the predators in order to inspect the predator and assess the danger. Predator inspection behavior increases the risk of being attacked and eaten by the predator, but the behavior is beneficial to the inspectors as more alert minnows react more ...
There is considerable overlap in the diet of this species and Striped Bass. Both are opportunistic feeders that prey on seasonally available food including chinook salmon, minnows and sculpins. They even prey on frogs, large stoneflies, lamprey ammocoetes, and small rodents. [9] This piscivorous species is known to also feed on its own young ...
The Duo Realis Tide Minnow has been a popular jerkbait while trollers are scoring with P-Line’s Predator Minnows in red head/silver . The forebay has also been hot as the grass is dying off.
Semotilus atromaculatus, known as the creek chub or the common creek chub, is a small minnow, a freshwater fish found in the eastern US and Canada.Differing in size and color depending on origin of development, the creek chub can usually be defined by a dark brown body with a black lateral line spanning horizontally across the body.
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Like other minnows, golden shiners are sensitive to the release of an alarm substance, or schreckstoff, contained within special skin cells. If a predator catches and bites into a minnow, the skin is broken, the substance is released, and other minnows in the vicinity can detect the substance and react to it by leaving the area.
Fathead minnow (Pimephales promelas), also known as fathead or tuffy, is a species of temperate freshwater fish belonging to the genus Pimephales of the cyprinid family. The natural geographic range extends throughout much of North America, from central Canada south along the Rockies to Texas, and east to Virginia and the Northeastern United States. [2]
The red shiner or red-horse minnow (Cyprinella lutrensis) is a North American species of freshwater fish in the family Cyprinidae.They are deep-bodied and laterally compressed, [2] and can grow to about 3 inches (7.6 cm) in length.