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#212702 - 09/25/03 05:16 PM Why do fish jump?
cast and blast Returning Adult Registered: 06/20/03 Posts: 296 Loc: Edmonds	Ok with all of the heavy topics going on here, I think it is time to lighten things up. So, why do fish jump? . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cause they don't have middle fingers.
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#212703 - 09/25/03 07:20 PM Re: Why do fish jump?
cowlitzfisherman Three Time Spawner Registered: 06/14/00 Posts: 1828 Loc: Toledo, Washington	Just maybe because they want too!!! _________________________ Cowlitzfisherman Is the taste of the bait worth the sting of the hook????
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#212704 - 09/25/03 07:48 PM Re: Why do fish jump?
spawnout Spawner Registered: 01/21/02 Posts: 842 Loc: Satsop	My hook is in his mouth and he is trying to shake it out <img border="0" alt="[eat]" title="" src="graemlins/eat.gif" /> _________________________ The fishing was GREAT! The catching could have used some improvement however........
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#212705 - 09/25/03 07:50 PM Re: Why do fish jump?
Dave Vedder Reverend Tarpones Registered: 10/09/02 Posts: 8379 Loc: West Duvall	Funny you should ask. My fishing buddies and I were just discussing that yesterday. Here are our answers 1. To loosen the eggs. (Do they need to loosen sperm as well?) 2. To shake off sea lice. (But trout jump and they don't have any sea lice.) 3. Because they don't have a middle finger. 4. Just cuz. _________________________ No huevos no pollo.
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#212706 - 09/25/03 07:57 PM Re: Why do fish jump?
Sky-Guy The Tide changed Registered: 08/31/00 Posts: 7083 Loc: Everett	Hershel is on his A**! _________________________ You know something bad is going to happen when you hear..."Hey, hold my beer and watch this"
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#212707 - 09/25/03 07:59 PM Re: Why do fish jump?
4Salt River Nutrients Registered: 03/07/00 Posts: 2955 Loc: Lynnwood, WA	In the case of the Snohomish river, it's to avoid the buzz bomb with the 4/0 treble flyin' towards them at warp speed! _________________________ A day late and a dollar short...
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#212708 - 09/25/03 08:02 PM Re: Why do fish jump?
Fishingjunky15 Spawner Registered: 03/22/03 Posts: 860 Loc: Puyallup, WA	Just to piss me off. _________________________ They say that the man that gets a Ph.D. is the smart one. But I think that the man that learns how to get paid to fish is the smarter one.
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#212709 - 09/25/03 08:29 PM Re: Why do fish jump?
Smalma River Nutrients Registered: 11/25/01 Posts: 2834 Loc: Marysville	To see where I'm at so they know which hook to bite!! Tight lines Smalma
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#212710 - 09/25/03 08:43 PM Re: Why do fish jump?
uwfishgirl Alevin Registered: 06/08/03 Posts: 15 Loc: Kent, WA	To get those horrible fish leaches of their scales....yuck!
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#212711 - 09/25/03 09:47 PM Re: Why do fish jump?
Sebastes Repeat Spawner Registered: 10/31/02 Posts: 1295 Loc: Monroe,WA.	Maybe its fish aerobics. They need to shed some of that fat they built up eating all those krill, herring, needlefish and such on their way to their final destination, which hopefully is my grill, frying pan, smoker , freezer or their native streams.
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#212712 - 09/25/03 09:58 PM Re: Why do fish jump?
chaser Returning Adult Registered: 09/21/00 Posts: 408 Loc: marysville,wa	Fish jump so that they can check which way the boats are trolling cause someone on this board told them to always troll with the current - thus home is the opposite direction
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#212713 - 09/25/03 11:30 PM Re: Why do fish jump?
Cigar Returning Adult Registered: 09/01/01 Posts: 354 Loc: Shoreline, Wa.	Fish jump when they are "HAPPY" Cigar _________________________ "Always on a mission to go fishin"
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#212714 - 09/26/03 12:09 AM Re: Why do fish jump?
Hairlipangler Juvenille at Sea Registered: 07/03/03 Posts: 154 Loc: Edgewood	It was that darned "Flipper". He started the whole thing!
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#212715 - 09/26/03 11:38 AM Re: Why do fish jump?
Jeff D Spawner Registered: 05/12/03 Posts: 881 Loc: S. Whidbey	Last weekend it was to shake my hootchie, flasher and diver off after my new knot in my new "super line" didn't hold. Lesson learned ... the hard way
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#212716 - 09/26/03 12:08 PM Re: Why do fish jump?
baddawg Repeat Spawner Registered: 12/14/01 Posts: 1191 Loc: Everett WA	Only chance they have to dry off! _________________________ bawddawg, no biscuit!
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#212717 - 09/26/03 12:41 PM Re: Why do fish jump?
Erndog Returning Adult Registered: 01/22/02 Posts: 271 Loc: Covington	I'm thinking: A. Due to no middle finger, they're giving you the fin, or B. They're trying to show you that you missed them, Na---na---na-na-na-na . _________________________ Quit crying and just fish. FISH ON!!!!!
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#212718 - 09/26/03 01:07 PM Re: Why do fish jump?
nookie dreamin' Spawner Registered: 06/04/02 Posts: 937 Loc: Everwet	They're in training for the jumps they have to make at the falls, kind of like warmups for athletes before the game... _________________________ Present AKA Knuckledragger
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#212719 - 09/26/03 03:31 PM Re: Why do fish jump?
stlhead River Nutrients Registered: 03/08/99 Posts: 6732	The first step to solving this mystery is answering the age old question: Does a fish jump when nobody is around to see it jump? _________________________ "You learn more from losing than you do from winning." Lou Pinella
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#212720 - 09/26/03 04:16 PM Re: Why do fish jump?
Neurosis Juvenille at Sea Registered: 11/14/02 Posts: 124 Loc: Auburn	Quote: Originally posted by uwfishgirl: To get those horrible fish leaches of their scales....yuck! what is a fish leach? _________________________ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Know the Toe! http://www.cameltoe.org My Website _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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#212721 - 09/26/03 05:14 PM Re: Why do fish jump?
Skywalker Spawner Registered: 03/10/01 Posts: 570 Loc: Snohomish, WA, USA	...because skipping would look stupid?
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