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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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Rainbow Runner Fish Species Information

Scientific Fish Name: Elagatis bipinnulata
Other Fish Species Names: rainbow yellowtail, Spanish jack and Hawaiian salmon
Regions Fished: throughout the tropical and subtropical waters of the world, inhabiting both coastal as well as far offshore areas
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Rainbow runner are fast swimming carnivores that take a wide range of prey including a wide variety of small fishes, cephalopods and pelagic or planktonic crustaceans including, shrimps and crabs.

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