Fish Wisdom.

Fish are smarter than some people might think.  Take the free smorgasbords that go untouched on a daily basis along the Delaware beaches.

Every pleasant weather day during the summer hundreds of fishermen stand at the water's edge and cast hundreds of rods bearing fishing line fitted with hundreds of hooks loaded with hundreds of bite sized morsels into the ocean.  You might think the nearest fish might yell free food thereby triggering a feeding frenzy.

Not so.  Every half hour those hundreds of fishermen haul in their hundreds of lines and shake their heads as they worry over why the ocean's inhabitants don't find the offered bait appetizing.

I don't think appetizing has anything to do with it.  I'm convinced fish live by the same adage as our own learned ancestors.  If it seems to good to be true, it probably is.

Hmmmm.  Perhaps if the fishermen baited their hooks with beets.....