Trow Pool
Fascinating Fish Facts (FFF)
Can you see which one of the facts below is wrong? Send in your answer by e-mail to Wrongfact . The first twenty correct answers will all receive a free advanced RIG Booklet, a free float making kit and a set of hooks with line. See the rules below.
Pisces is Latin for fish
The study of fish is called Ichthyology
A fishes body is tapered at each end and this is called fusiform
The word fish is mentioned in the bible some 35 times
Samuel Pepys in 1667 mentions gut string in his diary
Fish fish appeared some 450 million years ago
A woman, Dame Juliana Berners wrote the fish fishing book in 1496. It was called "The Treatyse of Fyshinge wyth Angle"
The name Angler has been used in the UK for several hundred years & perhaps it's because when we fish, our rod and line forms an angle
Fish move fast, A 475 mm fish sprints at about 16 miles an hour and may cruise at 10 mph
Fish have all round, full-colour daytime sight. At night and in murky water they switch to black & white vision
Egyptian angling scene of about 2000 BC shows figures fishing with rod and line and nets
86 is the number for the word fish
A rod with guides was introduced in 1770
Some species of fish breathe air and walk on land
Fish scales have growth rings just like trees
Carp may put on 3 lb (1.4 kg) in a year
Fish scales were once used as sandpaper
Carp have been around for some 20 million years and Tench 30 million
The Blue whale weighs as much as 2,000 men and is the largest fish
The first four disciples, Peter, Andrew, James and John were all fishermen
Genesis 1:6, And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea...
153 = (1 x 1)+(5 x 5 x 5)+(3 x 3 x 3) and also = (1!+2!+3!+4!+5!) Simon Peter drew form the sea of Tiberias 153 fishes
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