Adventure Fishing: Fact or Fiction Quiz

Saltwater or freshwater? Fresh bait or lure? Whether you fish for fun or for competitive sport, we bet you don't know everything there is to know about fishing. Take our quiz and test your knowledge on our finned friends.

In Ernest Hemingway's classic novella "The Old Man and the Sea," the fish Santiago furiously battles is a swordfish.

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It belongs to the same family as the swordfish, but the fish Santiago fights for three days is actually a marlin.

The oldest fish on record lived to be 88 years old.

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It's easy to determine the age of a fish when it's in captivity. A female European eel lived a record-making 88 years in a museum in Sweden.

The fishing technique known as "noodling" involves using long worms or slime eels as bait.

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Noodlers catch fish by simply sticking their hands into a catfish hole and waiting for a fish to clamp onto their hand. Seriously.

"Still fishing" means putting your bait into the water and waiting for a fish to find it.

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Probably the simplest method of fishing, still fishing involves nothing more than dropping your bait into the water and waiting for a bite.

The knot used to attach the fishing line to the reel spool is called the Fisherman's Knot.

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The quickest and easiest way to connect the line to your reel spool is by tying the classic Arbor Knot. The Fisherman's Knot attaches the hook to the line.

Saltwater fishing baits include worms, leeches, minnows, crayfish, crickets and grasshoppers.

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Worms, leeches, minnows, crayfish, crickets or grasshoppers are all excellent freshwater fishing baits.

Blue- or purple-colored bait or lures are best to use when fishing in deep water.

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Although fish a most sensitive to the color red, they can only see it at close distances. Blue and purple are most visible in deep water.

In 2005, a couple of Thai fisherman caught a catfish the size of a grizzly bear.

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Setting a world record for the largest freshwater fish ever found, the Mekong giant catfish weighed a whopping 646 pounds. It fed the entire village.

When buying a hook, remember that the lower the number, the smaller the hook.

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Fishing experts recommend a #6 or #10 hook for beginning anglers -- and the higher the number, the smaller the hook.

The most expensive fishing lure ever created sells for a million dollars.

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Made of gold and platinum and encrusted with diamonds and rubies, the MacDaddy Million Dollar Lure costs just that. No word on whether anyone's ever actually bought one.

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Sorry, but we're going to have to throw you back. Better luck next time!

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You might want to stick to the smaller ponds and lakes for now.

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Congratulations, you're a real SHARK!

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