What has your fish coughed up?
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What has your fish coughed up?
Was out fishing the Ottawa up past the Bryson dam a few weeks ago and we caught a small ~1.5 lbs SMB that coughed up a baby muskrat in the boat. It was longer then the fish.
I've seen frogs, tadpoles, minows, etc, come out of fish, I caught a 1/2 lb laker with a 1/2 pound minnow, but that muskrat was a first. That poor fish lost a 1/2 pound for sure! Took a picture, but "someone" deleted the flashdisk on the camera before I could download it.
Impressive appetite for sure. Hitting a crankbait while working on getting that muskrat down.
So I wonder, anyone have any interesting things a fish has coughed up? (besides bass coughing up cigarette butts by the Muskie guys!)
I've seen frogs, tadpoles, minows, etc, come out of fish, I caught a 1/2 lb laker with a 1/2 pound minnow, but that muskrat was a first. That poor fish lost a 1/2 pound for sure! Took a picture, but "someone" deleted the flashdisk on the camera before I could download it.
Impressive appetite for sure. Hitting a crankbait while working on getting that muskrat down.
So I wonder, anyone have any interesting things a fish has coughed up? (besides bass coughing up cigarette butts by the Muskie guys!)
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I would think that is your lucky lure. Very unusual Did you catch anything good using that lure?moonshine wrote:I once caught a walleye with a spark plug socket in its belly. still nice and shiny too. its still in my tool box.
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This is not exactly on topic but kinda ... a buddy was fishing the Gouin resevoir in Quebec and saw this huge fish washed up on shore ... he went in and it was one of the biggest pike he had ever seen ... it had choked to death trying to swallow one of the largest walleye he had ever seen ... not exactly on topic of coughing things up but the story came to mind ...
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a paycheque.
At one time during a fall tournament a kicker largie coughed up a GIANT Bullfrog in the livewell. I had problems with the fact the fish could not keep it's breakfast down and the officials would not let me weigh in the frog as part of my weight...
Some notable objects other than prey, are plastics that someone else in the boat was using and missed the fish.... I managed to catch that fish. Good for some trash talk.
At one time during a fall tournament a kicker largie coughed up a GIANT Bullfrog in the livewell. I had problems with the fact the fish could not keep it's breakfast down and the officials would not let me weigh in the frog as part of my weight...
Some notable objects other than prey, are plastics that someone else in the boat was using and missed the fish.... I managed to catch that fish. Good for some trash talk.
If Winnipeg gets a hockey team, Toronto will want one too.....
with a little pressure on the frog with it being put back in the basses mouth as long as you can get it deep enough it will eat it again do that iv done it with a crayfishslop wrote:a paychequk.
At one time during a fall tournament a kicker largie coughed up a GIANT Bullfrog in the livewell. I had problems with the fact the fish could not keep it's breakfast down and the officials would not let me weigh in the frog as part of my weight...
Some notable objects other than prey, are plastics that someone else in the boat was using and missed the fish.... I managed to catch that fish. Good for some trash talk.
A number of years back I fished a 2 day bass tournament on Rice Lake. On the 1st day, I nailed a bass on a jig-n-pig off a dock but the fish broke off before I had a good look at her. The next day, I slammed a bass off the same dock and was able to quickly put the 2 lber in the livewell. A couple of hours later, while checking on the fish in my live well, I could not believe my eyes (and luck) when the same jig-n-pig that I lost the day before was sitting in the bottom of the live well.
More then one of the Pike I caught on Newboro Lake this summer were coughing up snails....well I think they were snails. They were jumbo size for sure I would say just a bit bigger than a timbit. Nothing actually inside the shell anymore but once the fish was in the boat out would come the snail shell.
Got me wondering about how you could "match the hatch" or at least the forage of what the fish were feeding on.....a trip to Red Lobster for bait?
BigC
Got me wondering about how you could "match the hatch" or at least the forage of what the fish were feeding on.....a trip to Red Lobster for bait?
BigC
AHA! PROOF!cgates wrote:with a little pressure on the frog with it being put back in the basses mouth as long as you can get it deep enough it will eat it again do that iv done it with a crayfishslop wrote:a paychequk.
At one time during a fall tournament a kicker largie coughed up a GIANT Bullfrog in the livewell. I had problems with the fact the fish could not keep it's breakfast down and the officials would not let me weigh in the frog as part of my weight...
Some notable objects other than prey, are plastics that someone else in the boat was using and missed the fish.... I managed to catch that fish. Good for some trash talk.
LOL!
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