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Rippin Lips’ Scent Trail

Ask science fiction to conjure a superhero with otherworldly senses of taste and smell and the resulting futuristic freak would likely resemble a catfish. In space age intelligence and acuity, catfish are off the piscatorial charts—finned freaks of nature that beat bass, eagles and bloodhounds, combined. Indeed, their superior senses of taste, sight and certainly scent read more like science fiction than fact. “Olfactory folds" are the microscopic sensors that help fish detect ‘stuff that stinks.’ A 2-pound channel catfish has 142; a 7-pound largemouth bass, just 13. When a catfish detects certain succulent amino acid at just one part per 10...
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Freshwater Drum Fish Species Information

Scientific Fish Name: Aplodinotus grunniens
Other Fish Species Names: shepherd's pie, silver bass, gray bass, Gasper goo, Gaspergou, gou, grunt, grunter, grinder, croaker, sheephead, sheepshead
Regions Fished: North and Central America
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The diet of the freshwater drum is generally benthic and composed of macroinvertebrates (mainly aquatic insect larvae and bivalve mussels), as well as small fish.


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