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Did you keep these fish? If not, is it possible that they learned it's ok to get hooked? Food > hook?I have no doubt fish have pretty solid vision since they have camouflage and breeding colors. No need to evolve those things if ya can't see down there.
I have no problem with entertaining the idea that fish learn. Nothing like human consciousness, but they have a nervous system and a brain and many of them are social creatures. It'd be weirder if they didn't learn to some degree than if they did.
But...how many times does one fish have to see a lure, hit it, and have the hook set to catch onto a ruse? How many fishermen have to throw that lure, and for how long? Why did the bass and bluegill in the residential pond at my first apartment hit a white Berkeley powerbait jig almost every day of the summer for 3 years without catching on? And why haven't fish by now learned that earthworms floating in the water almost certainly have a hook attached to them?
I definitely agree some fish just don't care, or learn I suppose. My grandfather used to use neon green line and we/he'd catch the same fish with green line sticking out of it's mouth if he decided to cut his line instead of ripping a swallowed hook out