Do we split the Shoals

[terry t shirt]

A thought occured to the other day. Are we anglers resposible of making the size of shoal of the larger fish. The scenario in my mind was A shoal of say 6 large bream. 1 gets caught at 50yds range the rest of the shoal scatter. How would the fish you;ve caught locate the shoal. Its now 50yds away from where it was feeding and the remaining shoal has scattered in 20 acres of water. Is this fish now a loner?

[Anderoo]

They find their mates again. In the case of the bream, the real loners are the ones that are a 'shoal of 1' - i.e. all their mates have died off. They are (as you'd expect) often the biggest/oldest fish.

 

I don't know how they find their way back to their group after being caught, but (based on plenty of circumstantial evidence) I'm sure they manage it.