Trout with hooks already in them ?

[gaddy]

Just wondering how many people catch trout with lines hanging out of their mouth. In the last week I have caught 5, 3 of them in one day. Saw another guy just down from me get one on the day I got the 3. A week prior I got a fish, got it in and there was a line wrapped around mine that took off into the lake. A short time latter the guy next to me caught a fish, got it in, and it also had a line wrapped around it. He was able to snag it and pulled in his last fish by hand.
Never seen anything like it. Every thing from a small treble to # 6 egg hooks. I wonder how many broke off at the hook that I didn't see. Some came complete with power eggs, one was dragging 2' of leader with the swivel. Some items have been incorporated into my tackle inventory.
Has anyone else found gear with their fish ?

[DOUBLELUNG]

I have caught a few, the most memorable was a 16" rainbow that had my uncle's fly in its jaw, he had fished through about an hour before me.  He got tired of hearing about what a nice fish it was and the skill required to not get broken off by bigger fish in small streams  .  I caught a 22" rainbow in a Wyoming lake that had a countown Rapala hooked just in front of the dorsal.  A fair number over the years with bare hooks.

[wadu1]

Yep 4 times this year for me. Helped an older gentleman land one with a red hook coming out it's vent hole.

[metlhead]

Watched a spey guy break off a summer run, only to have him see me catch it four days later with his fly still stuck in it's face.

[trophyelk6x6]

Very common, I use 6lb test line trout fishing the Mason County lakes and those planters thrash around and when using bait they typically swallow it deep and trash your line. While I try to get the hook out the line breaks.  I started using a treble and the fish don't swallow it that easy and take it in the lip more than swallow the whole thing. Don't tell WDFW that though they would say the opposite.

[bowNarrow]

Caught one  last season with a 5" senko in its mouth and throat and stomach. Still got my Kokanee lure.

[Bullkllr]

Just wondering how many people catch trout with lines hanging out of their mouth. In the last week I have caught 5, 3 of them in one day. Saw another guy just down from me get one on the day I got the 3. A week prior I got a fish, got it in and there was a line wrapped around mine that took off into the lake. A short time latter the guy next to me caught a fish, got it in, and it also had a line wrapped around it. He was able to snag it and pulled in his last fish by hand.
Never seen anything like it. Every thing from a small treble to # 6 egg hooks. I wonder how many broke off at the hook that I didn't see. Some came complete with power eggs, one was dragging 2' of leader with the swivel. Some items have been incorporated into my tackle inventory.
Has anyone else found gear with their fish ?

Let's take this a step farther through the digestive process.

After swallowing a baited hook, it is possible for trout to "process" it and the hook works it's way through the digestive system and out the other end. I have seen several trout over the years with a hook, or at least part of a line dangling from their bunghole. Weird, but not unheard of.

A few years ago we caught a trout that had taken it even farther. It was a nice carryover, maybe 16-17 inches and we killed it. As I was unhooking the fish I noticed another line coming from it's mouth. Ok...not unusual... until I realized the line looped back through the trout's bunghole. Yes- it had a hook in it's gullet attached to a line from it's own southend. How that happened I have no idea. I'm thinking it "passed" the hook and then somehow reingested it. Freaky.

[Alchase]

In the mid 90s, I caught a 4 lb rainbow out of Lake Desire in Kent. When I netted him, he had another line coming out of his mouth. I started pulling on the other line, up comes a Eagle Claw telescoping pole with a Okuma spincast with a flipping switch on it, LOL.
I still have it, works great for a pack pole.

[gaddy]

That has to be one of the coolest fishing scores I have ever heard.

[Alchase]

I almost makes up for the one I lost at Mayfield a few years ago.. Had a good hit, pulled it out of the pole holder and the way it was in my hand when it pulled again the pole flipped right out of my hand and was gone. Tried to snag it, but was pretty deep and never hooked it.
That was St Croix medium light with a Shimano baitcaster on it.

[ghosthunter]

Three years ago I take my young grandson and dad to Cain lake. The kid leans his Spider Man pole up on the seat a fish hits it and over the side it goes.

Kids upset, but my son in law had another Spider Man pole in the truck.

Next day bring my son,and son in law fishing same lake.

We joke with folks at the dock if they catch a Spider-Man pole it's ours. Everyone laughs.

Two hours later my son gets a bite and starts pulling it in, something is wrong he says.
Out pops his hook with a line through it.
He pulls the line and there is a nice trout on it, he keeps pulling and out comes the Spider-Man pole.

We call my 10 year old grandson and tell him.

He says " Who's fish is it". 

[biggfish]

I caught a bunch of crappie that all had hooks in them. I figured mostly cause people didn't know how to fish in the reeds. Mostly just freed fish since they were so small.

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[Alchase]

This one is a little different.
We were up at Pine lake fishing from the dock when I was about 10. Back when you drove on a dirt road from Sammamish pkwy up to the lake, LOL
This kid using a hand line, drops his line through a hole in the dock about two inches in diameter. He hooks a huge rainbow! We could see the fish well over 5 pounds. This thing is yanking this 6 year old kids hand into the dock over and over. His dad is yelling at him to let go, there is no way this fish is going to fit through the 2 inch hole. This kid is screaming but will not lat go of he hand line. All us other kids on the dock were ready to jump in with a net to try and get the fish.
His dad first tried to break the line with has teeth and cut hi lips all up, someone handed him a knife and he cut the line, LOL.

[ctwiggs1]

Three years ago I take my young grandson and dad to Cain lake. The kid leans his Spider Man pole up on the seat a fish hits it and over the side it goes.

Kids upset, but my son in law had another Spider Man pole in the truck.

Next day bring my son,and son in law fishing same lake.

We joke with folks at the dock if they catch a Spider-Man pole it's ours. Everyone laughs.

Two hours later my son gets a bite and starts pulling it in, something is wrong he says.
Out pops his hook with a line through it.
He pulls the line and there is a nice trout on it, he keeps pulling and out comes the Spider-Man pole.

We call my 10 year old grandson and tell him.

He says " Who's fish is it". 

That kid is being raised right!

[Igottanewknee]

Slightly different twist.... Was fishing sockeye from shore, I caught a very nice fillet. They have cleaning stations along the shoreline with stainless chutes to let the guts go back in the water. I guess one got away...lol

[NW SURVEYOR]

Was the Sockeye fillet native?
Don't get caught.

[Buckewe]

I have caught dozens. Some where the line passed through the fish and still had some line hanging out its mouth. The best one was my buddy lost a really nice trout and ended up catching the same fish 2weeks later with his hook in it.

[Gobble Doc]

I caught 2 this week with line out the mouth. Maybe people are using bait and then want to fish past the limit of 5 either caught or released so they just cut the line short and keep fishing?

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[Mtnwalker]

A few years ago I got a nice summer run up on the peninsula that has somebody's drift setup hanging out of its mouth. About a 2' leader to a swivel and a slinky. Funny part was the fish never actually bit, my 2/0 hook managed to go right through the eye on the swivel, which was barely bigger than the diameter of the hook. Lucky!

[Igottanewknee]

Was the Sockeye fillet native?
Don't get caught.

Sorry,  should have mentioned I was on the Kenai.

[j_h_nimrod]

There are a lot of people with Walmart special rods anymore that don't really have a clue about fishing and assume that since a rod had 8lb mono strung on it ten years ago it is still good to go. I have seen a few dinkuses pull out their rod, tie on their preferred tackle, and promptly break the line setting the hook. They repeat that another time or two and are convinced the water is full of monster fish, never once realizing their 8lb mono is more like 2lb. They finally land a 12" after stripping their reel to fresh line and are convinced they have been breaking off the "big one", never once realizing there are a couple more 12" fish swimming around trailing their gear. 

[pianoman9701]

I broke one off one day and caught him with my rig still in his mouth the next. No one said they were very smart fish!

[singleshot12]

People that fish for stocked trout are not usually the best at tying knots or playing fish. And yes caught a few skinny holdovers with hooks and a couple feet of leader hanging out their bung hole.

[PolarBear]

I caught 120 pound halibut with 3 jigs in it's mouth, only one was mine.  The other 2 had been there for at least a few days to a week.

[Rainstorm Hunter]

Seen it plenty of times. I have heard some people that dont want to keep the fish sometimes cut the line if the fish swallows the hook, better survival rate I guess. Best one I have seen was fishing Coho with my brother a couple years back. Fishing bobber and eggs through a deep hole he hooked a dark coho. Didn't want to net and and while trying to unhook it, the line broke and off it swam. Two days later back at the same hole I hooked up, and caught the same coho with his hook with pink yarn still stuck in the corner of the mouth. This time I was able to remove both sets of hooks.

[Bofire]

caught a planter trout a few years ago, had a hook in its mouth and still trailing the line, weight, swivel and bobber.
Carl

[HUNTINCOUPLE]

Caught a steelhead trout at Blue Crk. one year. My drift setup hooked the top eye of a barrel swivel of a setup which had broke off in the steelies mouth. The setup was about two feet long. I did buy a loto ticket on the way home.....Frm. No luck on the ticket.

[Timberstalker]

Caught a steelhead trout at Blue Crk. one year. My drift setup hooked the top eye of a barrel swivel of a setup which had broke off in the steelies mouth. The setup was about two feet long. I did buy a loto ticket on the way home.....Frm. No luck on the ticket.

Holy moly. What are the odds?

[Bullkllr]

Caught a steelhead trout at Blue Crk. one year. My drift setup hooked the top eye of a barrel swivel of a setup which had broke off in the steelies mouth. The setup was about two feet long. I did buy a loto ticket on the way home.....Frm. No luck on the ticket.

Holy moly. What are the odds?

That happened to me there once too.

I landed another there that had broken somebody off where my jig had trapped a corkie against a swivel- no wrap, nothing hooked threw anything- just holding the corkie against the swivel at the end of the leader.

[YoteSlayer61]

Caught a big brown trout,  With some corn (in it)

[pianoman9701]

People that fish for stocked trout are not usually the best at tying knots or playing fish. And yes caught a few skinny holdovers with hooks and a couple feet of leader hanging out their bung hole.

I fish structure, sunken trees. Sometimes, the fish get wrapped around a limb and break off. It's not difficult with 3 lb leaders.

[h2ofowlr]

I have caught several trout at release sites with multiple hooks in them.  I think some get broke off as they try to horse some of the larger trout in with light line and I think some just don't know how to tie proper knots. 

[pianoman9701]

 

[gaddy]

Guess I can understand them breaking off by horsing in these monsters. They were all 7 to 9 inchers.

[DOUBLELUNG]

I have a friend who fishes out of Buzzard's bay in Falmouth Mass for bluefish and stripers.  He kept an old spincast with a crappie jig on it for catching bait, he'd jig around piles and rocks and get small mackerel, scup, capelin, sand eels etc.  One day the jig got grabbed the rod goes over - gone.  However the next day he saw the reel floating and managed to grab the butt, and finessed in a small bluefish that still had the jig buried in the corner of its jaw.

[gaddy]

Some crazy stories popping up. 

[pianoman9701]

I have a friend who fishes out of Buzzard's bay in Falmouth Mass for bluefish and stripers.  He kept an old spincast with a crappie jig on it for catching bait, he'd jig around piles and rocks and get small mackerel, scup, capelin, sand eels etc.  One day the jig got grabbed the rod goes over - gone.  However the next day he saw the reel floating and managed to grab the butt, and finessed in a small bluefish that still had the jig buried in the corner of its jaw.

I miss hitting the bluefish runs. That was a kick in the butt.

[Miles]

I have a friend who fishes out of Buzzard's bay in Falmouth Mass for bluefish and stripers.  He kept an old spincast with a crappie jig on it for catching bait, he'd jig around piles and rocks and get small mackerel, scup, capelin, sand eels etc.  One day the jig got grabbed the rod goes over - gone.  However the next day he saw the reel floating and managed to grab the butt, and finessed in a small bluefish that still had the jig buried in the corner of its jaw.

I miss hitting the bluefish runs. That was a kick in the butt.

I used to go out of Hampton a couple times a year.  Always a good time, although I've seen some crazy wave heights by the Isles of Shoals.

[pianoman9701]

We'd go down to the cape, I think around the 2nd week of July when they started schooling in close. You could literally catch them with a piece of tin foil on a hook. A friend had a Whaler and we'd just sit on the schools as they moved down the shore. Awesome fishing and tired boys by the end of the day.

[Duckgtr]

Couple years ago we caught 3 steelhead in 2 days by the leaders that were hanging out of its mouth. One of them was one I brought off 10 minutes before. My hook caught my line and slid the bead up to the swivel and got stuck in my hook.

[Night goat]

not trout but...

when crabbing up in the Bering sea a few years back we pulled our cod pots, and keep in mind that we were +400 miles northwest of the Pribilofs, we had a codfish with like a 3/0 sport hook in its mouth. either that fish swam a good distance, or slme crazy sob just went that far out

[birddogdad]

not trout but...

when crabbing up in the Bering sea a few years back we pulled our cod pots, and keep in mind that we were +400 miles northwest of the Pribilofs, we had a codfish with like a 3/0 sport hook in its mouth. either that fish swam a good distance, or slme crazy sob just went that far out

or salmon, have wondered what a warden would do if you had a fish that someone else had foul hooked/released.. cant tell you the number of times I have had a warden look over fish and wonder.. guess I should ask them once they are done with the "fish check" on some poor guy...

[Night goat]

not trout but...

when crabbing up in the Bering sea a few years back we pulled our cod pots, and keep in mind that we were +400 miles northwest of the Pribilofs, we had a codfish with like a 3/0 sport hook in its mouth. either that fish swam a good distance, or slme crazy sob just went that far out

or salmon, have wondered what a warden would do if you had a fish that someone else had foul hooked/released.. cant tell you the number of times I have had a warden look over fish and wonder.. guess I should ask them once they are done with the "fish check" on some poor guy...

try fishing the Samish....

[BigGoonTuna]

Caught a king up a small lower Columbia tributary with a double hook mooching rig down its throat, must've broken him off at buoy 10.

[gaddy]

I caught another today. First I've been out in a while. The trout had passed the small hook all the way through and it was dangling 2' from the vent. The swivel was wedged in it's jaw.
I didn't actually get a bite. My pole bent over, I picked it up and felt the pull, not a fight. When I got the fish in, it was heading in the wrong direction, tail first. The hook trailing from the vent had snagged the loop of my leader just at the swivel. I Snipped of the hook and pulled the line through the fish.
This has got to be the all time weirdest catch of my life, and I have been fishing for more than half a century.

[wadu1]

Got my second one yesterday egg hook in it's belly

[lokidog]

Caught a bass last week in WI that had a rubber worm hook hooked around it's gill plate.

Many years ago, my wife caught a 32" ling that had three sets of double hooks in it.  The crazy thing was that they all looked like they were lost by the same person as they were all the same funky, not quite right, trailer hook knot.  Could be why the guy kept breaking them off....