Dear lovers of fishing, Anglers!
I would like to invite you to take part in solution of an important fishing problem – a problem of biting.
Very often we ask ourselves questions like “Why fish is not biting?”, “Why fish suddenly stops biting everywhere?”, “Why fishing was good yesterday, but today there is not a thing?”
The first person who asked these questions was a primitive man - an inventor of a fishhook. It is known that Socrates also tried to answer these questions. But so far they are unanswered.
The biting problem is one of few unresolved problems facing mankind. Without solving this problem, no reliable fishing forecast can be made.
I tried to collect and analyze all available publications concerning fishermen expertise, publications of investigators in order to understand what reasons influence behavior of fish. And also why the problem has not been solved though fishermen know a lot about bite.
Results of the analysis turned out to be unexpected, but here I only touch on the priceless treasure of the accumulated knowledge.
Researchers made a lot of significant discoveries. For example, scientists suppose that fish has more than 20 sense organs, but we still live with the traditional classification of five classic sense organs.
All this wealth lies as unemployed capital and waits for its analysis, in other words, for enthusiastic lover of fishing and investigators.
One of the reasons of this situation is that fishermen do not share their ideas about it with scientists. But this is the case when science without practice is almost blind.
It is necessary to make the accumulated knowledge and experiences of fishermen of all continents and generations, from origination of writing to today’s articles, diaries, thoughts, conclusions, suggestions and so on, a common property for all lovers of fishing and investigators.
Internet gives an opportunity to open a fishing debating-society for discussions. In order for the club to normally perform the duties of its members, it is necessary to distribute all information and organize debates by topics of the bite problem.
It is quite obvious that materials will be sent from different biogeographical regions with different sets of species of fish and plants, and on different languages from many countries.
I propose for a discussion the scheme with two groups of questions: 1. Factors having an effect upon fish. 2. Fish organs responding to those factors.
The factors are: electrical, magnetic, gravitational, temperature, heat, frost, light, sound, atmospheric pressure, wind, snow-storm, humidity, mist, dew, hoar-frost, cloudiness, precipitations, rain, thunder. Some internal factors: biological rhythms, nutrition, spawning, food resources available for fish.
Organs (Earlier in some publications I proposed the classification of sensory organs receptive to external factors): electrosensitivity, electrotactil, magnetic sensitivity, magnetic azimuthal orientation, gravitation sensitivity (same as biological clock of about two-week and about monthly biorhythms of animals), equilibrium, atmospheric pressure, water pressure, local pressure, tactile sensitivity, cold sensitivity, thermal sensitivity (same as biological clock of seasonal and annual biorhythms), visual, light sensitivity (same as biological clock of daily rhythms of animals), auditory, locator organ, vibration sensitivity, olfaction, taste, gas analyzer, pain sensitivity.
A solution of this issue is impossible without involvement of a wide range of different spheres of science.
Dear representatives of zoology, ichthyology, zoogeography, physiology, biology, bioacoustics, biogeography, biohydroacoustics, biohydrochemistry, biorhythmology, biophysics, biochemistry, heliobiology, magnitobiology, phenology, oecology, physics, chemistry, astronomy, climatology, meteorology, weather forecasters, archivists, archeologists, without you it is very difficult to make good use of knowledge and experience of fishermen.
Dear fisherwomen, fishermen, all lovers of fishing, dear investigators, let us try now to set the biting problem going.
