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Ice Fishing Tips -Check your local regulations! => Catfish => Topic started by: slipperybob on Feb 20, 2016, 08:51 AM
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For the first time I paid attention to the catfish rattle. I always thought that they were burping the rattle.. However I saw the catfish used its pectoral fins. It rattled as the catfish rattled it. Thats amazing.
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it is pretty cool! they actually make the noise similarly to the way crickets chirp, by rubbing two ribbed bones together.
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I wonder the reason behind their rattle is. Do they do it to be aggressive, like a hissing cat or growling dog?
Or like a rattling rattler? They gonna strike with that barbed fin of theirs. I know at least the little catfish, some will purposely try to sting you, when you release them.
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fish don't deal with sound very often, and catfish deal with stuff above water even less. most likely it's a distress signal meant to send a very recognizable vibration pattern through the water. basically just saying "warning, i'm in danger, there's a predator here"
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These aren't little catfish. Decent in size. 22"-28" in length. Now I've heard even the big ones in the 30"-34" length ones would rattle as well. I just never paid attention to it. I'm thinking croaking is probably a better description of what they're doing.