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<blockquote data-quote="choupique" data-source="post: 4612284" data-attributes="member: 14574"><p>That's a bunch of bunk. No minnows (the family, not the general term) have stomachs, they have an alkaline digestive tract, but there's plenty of species that eat other fish -- pikeminnows, creek chubs, fallfish, etc. Bigheads have fine gill rakers that they use to direct food items into the esophagus, but they can and will eat small fish given the chance, and yes they'll eat lures. The gill rakers on silvers are fused together into a spongy mass that has a slimy mucous coating; this allows them to eat smaller zooplankton and even phytoplankton (!) but it also means they can't force a larger food item past the mat. They won't eat most lures, unless it's something really tiny.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="choupique, post: 4612284, member: 14574"] That's a bunch of bunk. No minnows (the family, not the general term) have stomachs, they have an alkaline digestive tract, but there's plenty of species that eat other fish -- pikeminnows, creek chubs, fallfish, etc. Bigheads have fine gill rakers that they use to direct food items into the esophagus, but they can and will eat small fish given the chance, and yes they'll eat lures. The gill rakers on silvers are fused together into a spongy mass that has a slimy mucous coating; this allows them to eat smaller zooplankton and even phytoplankton (!) but it also means they can't force a larger food item past the mat. They won't eat most lures, unless it's something really tiny. [/QUOTE]
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