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Title: Weirdest thing you ever found in a fish's stomach?
Post by: Firstlight on December 24, 2009, 06:30:04 PM: Just was wondering the weirdest thing anyone has ever found in a salmon/steelheads stomach. Ive caught lots of fish with the usual needle fish, herring, crab larva, shrimp/prawns, stone flies in summer runs, curred roe, died prawns, and once I caught a bass with a 3inch long water beetle in it. I didnt think they got that big around here.

Anyway I caught a coho off the beach this last july on a mini buzz bomb. It was a decent 9-10lb fin cliped fish so it came home. While I was cleaning it I noticed it stomach was looking pretty full. When I cut it open I was expecting to see some needle fish and herring, but all it had in it gut was balled up alder leaves. Not just one but 3 of them. Kinda weird for a fish running around in the salt. Anyone else ever seen this? :dunno:
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Post by: fishcrazy on December 24, 2009, 09:31:12 PM: Alder leaves? That is strange.

I knew a guy who caught a big sucker with a "rubber" in it's stomach. :dunno:

Kris
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Post by: Steelslayer on December 24, 2009, 09:35:11 PM: I caught a bass a couple summers ago with bird feathers sticking out of its throat.
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Post by: DOUBLELUNG on December 24, 2009, 09:41:24 PM: Not in the stomache, but I once caught an 18" rainbow with my uncle's fly in its lip. I released the fish, gave him back his fly, then proceeded to irritate him the rest of the day telling him how fun it was to catch that fish. All was forgiven though when i pitched the cap off the bottle of Ols Sheepdip.
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Post by: waoutdoorsman on December 24, 2009, 09:51:59 PM: That is weird. maybe it was trying the new green diet or something. My dad caught a trout with a mouse in its stomach years ago.
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Post by: arintime on December 24, 2009, 09:56:25 PM: Quote from: waoutdoorsman on December 24, 2009, 09:51:59 PM
That is weird. maybe it was trying the new green diet or something. My dad caught a trout with a mouse in its stomach years ago.
There are mouse flies tied for that reason. Usually tied with deer hair. I have never seen anything weird in the fishes stomachs, Just the things they eat (naturally).
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Post by: tomy salami on December 24, 2009, 10:16:10 PM: 5# springer jack in the gullet of a 50# steelhead......and an after dinner mint.
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Post by: PolarBear on December 24, 2009, 10:34:00 PM: Found a rubber glove in the stomach of a 250# halibut.
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Post by: fishseeker on December 25, 2009, 06:13:50 AM: Firstlight, that must have been a fish from one of them Seattle cricks, I hear their VEGAN :P
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Post by: 1bowhunter1 on December 25, 2009, 06:23:26 AM: My Friend and I where fishing in Lacamas Lk. Wa He caught a 5# Lg Mouth that ha d a $5.00 Bill in it! Thats before the Land Developers Destroyed Lacamas LK. >:( >:( >:( He still has the $5 in a Frame in the Game room of his.
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Post by: wannabhntr on December 25, 2009, 06:28:13 AM: Caught a rainbow once that had a rubber worm in its stomach. Also caught a large mouth that had a pasty white sunfish sticking out of its throat.
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Post by: fishcrazy on December 25, 2009, 08:24:30 AM: Quote from: tomy salami on December 24, 2009, 10:16:10 PM
5# springer jack in the gullet of a 50# steelhead......and an after dinner mint.

I figured you would post that.

I like it. Maybe use it myself someday. :chuckle:

Kris
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Post by: rasbo on December 25, 2009, 09:06:53 AM: Quote from: wannabhntr on December 25, 2009, 06:28:13 AM
Caught a rainbow once that had a rubber worm in its stomach. Also caught a large mouth that had a pasty white sunfish sticking out of its throat.
I caught the same in the delta in ca,the bass still hitting the lure with a fish to big to swallow in its mouth
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Post by: lokidog on December 25, 2009, 10:34:30 AM: My wife caught a 10 lb lingcod. When it puked up its guts on the deck out popped 4 eight inch herring and a chunk of octopus arm about seven inches by an inch and a half. The funny thing was, two of the herring had double hook rigs on them, both were tied with the same funky knot indicating someone else lost this fish twice. :chuckle:

I shot a common merganser drake with a 10" spiny ray digesting in its belly....
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Post by: SpokaneSlayer on December 28, 2009, 11:48:32 AM: I caught a smallie that coughed up a rubber worm. That's not really uncommon. What made it strange was it was the same type of worm we were using. Probably picked it up off the bottom or could have been one of the fish we missed while dropshotting the slough that was nearby earlier that day.
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Post by: WAcoyotehunter on December 28, 2009, 11:52:49 AM: got a 2 lb largemouth with a baby muskrat!
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Post by: GoldTip on December 28, 2009, 12:01:09 PM: Caught a 18" brookie in a creek up near East Glacier with a full size mouse, unharmed in it's stomach. It was dead but looked like it hadn't even touched a tooth going down the gullet.
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Post by: bowtech721 on December 28, 2009, 12:03:10 PM: Ive never found anything unusual in the fish itself but ive caught one silver with a hootchie flasher and deepsix dragging behind it and a king with just a flasher and bait rig hooked in it... i like free tackle :)
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Post by: alanger on December 28, 2009, 12:06:44 PM: ive caught many largemouth with whole crawdads in them and more than 1. and then a king salmon with 4 herring in it. then trout with my own lure in its mouth that snapped off a week or so before.
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Post by: Huntbear on December 28, 2009, 12:14:37 PM: Quote from: fishcrazy on December 24, 2009, 09:31:12 PM
Alder leaves? That is strange.

I knew a guy who caught a big sucker with a "rubber" in it's stomach. :dunno:

Kris

He needs to quit hanging out with THOSE kind of girls! :yike: :yike: :chuckle: :chuckle: :chuckle: :chuckle: :chuckle:
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Post by: whacker1 on December 28, 2009, 12:16:10 PM: Quote
Quote from: fishcrazy on December 24, 2009, 09:31:12 PM
Alder leaves? That is strange.

I knew a guy who caught a big sucker with a "rubber" in it's stomach.

Kris

He needs to quit hanging out with THOSE kind of girls!

He didn't read the directions on how they are to be used? :chuckle:
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Post by: Woodchuck on December 28, 2009, 12:22:04 PM: Nothing real strange in a salmon or steelhead, did catch a big northern in minnesota with about a 2lb sucker in its gut that was in one piece, mostly un- digested
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Post by: Alchase on December 28, 2009, 02:21:02 PM: When I was about ten, my Dad and I went out on a charter out of Ocean Shores. We spent the morning salmon fishing and listening to this whiny kid a year or two older then I was just annoy everyone on the boat because he caught the first salmon and won the the "first" part of the First and biggest boat derby with a silver about 2.5 lbs. After a few hours and only hooking three salmon total we started bottome fishing. My Dad hooked a 36 lb lingcod, and we caught a few smaller lings and rock fish. I swear by the time we got back to the dock we all wanted to push the kid overboard because of the continuous whining. When the baitboy started unloading the fish we came up one silver short. The captain knew right away what had happened, they cut open the gut of my Dad's ling and there was the whiny snot's silver bit in two pieces, lol. You should have heard the kid cry when the baitboy gave him his slimy fish in two pieces, I was on the ground rolling with laughter.
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Post by: fisheral87 on December 29, 2009, 07:53:11 AM: Not really weird, I thought it was cool though. 35lb King with one of those diving sea birds, Auklets I believe they are called. I can't imagine he thought it was a herring, which would me he thought it looked tasty. Greedy bugger.
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Post by: GONEHUNTIN on December 29, 2009, 12:45:07 PM: My son caught a big rainbow trout. I clean it out. Notice there a cigeratte butt.
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Post by: carpsniperg2 on December 29, 2009, 01:03:53 PM: i found a chunk of glass in a steelheads stomach it was about 2"x2"
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Post by: TONTO on December 29, 2009, 01:06:29 PM: I've caught hatchery plant rainbow with all kinds of wierd crap in em, bellies full of drift wood, cigarette butts etc....was dragging my line around behind my float tube once and spitting sunflower seeds, when I'ld got home with the 5 I'ld kept and started cleaning them they all had bellies full of sunflower shells. I guess that may be considered chumming. I have a friend of a friend that caught a keeper size sturgeon of the east end wall in Astoria,when he cleaned it it had a belly full of dead kittens, somebody apperantly tossed a bag of kittys off the wall and the fish found em.
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Post by: MtnMuley on December 29, 2009, 04:28:13 PM: I've pulled many of pounds worth of rocks out of fish from rufus over the years.
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Post by: Teachers Pet on December 30, 2009, 12:38:39 PM: A rainbow trout with cigarette butts, fir needles, and huckleberries. :yike:
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Post by: h2ofowlr on January 03, 2010, 08:12:34 PM: I caught a springer a few years back and it had a black wire hanging out of its mouth. When I opened it up it had a transmitter in it's belly.
Also caught a springer that had 6 of the chips they insert into the smolts head in its belly. They found them with the wand that they waive over the adult fishes head.
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Post by: Firstlight on January 03, 2010, 08:49:18 PM: Quote from: h2ofowlr on January 03, 2010, 08:12:34 PM
I caught a springer a few years back and it had a black wire hanging out of its mouth. When I opened it up it had a transmitter in it's belly.
Also caught a springer that had 6 of the chips they insert into the smolts head in its belly. They found them with the wand that they waive over the adult fishes head.

h20fowlr

Was it down in the Columbia or was it around here?
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Post by: Ripper on January 04, 2010, 06:54:33 PM: I caught a 13" smallie with a 5" storm wild eye jig in it's gut. Still can't figure out how he got it down!
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Post by: andrew_12gauge on January 05, 2010, 02:56:05 AM: nothin real wierd but i caught about a 26" walleye near the dock/netpens at mardon when i cut it open it had 7 rainbows all about 6-8" long stacked up in its belly
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Post by: jeepasaurusrex on January 05, 2010, 05:45:37 AM: My Daughter caught a 17" rainbow trout that had my leader broke off in his mouth. :'(
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Post by: 12 gauge watergun on January 07, 2010, 08:54:59 AM: Caught a trout at banks lake that had 2 ciggarette butts and a rubber grommit in its stomach right after winter. all the other fish stomachs were empty. Hungry is hungry :P
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Post by: singleshot12 on January 07, 2010, 07:41:22 PM: I caught a sturgeon with an onion in his stomach..after that I squeeze onion juice on my bait, seems to help.
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Post by: Snowman on January 07, 2010, 07:42:20 PM: A large mouth bass with a baby duck inside it's belly.
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Post by: ICEMAN on January 08, 2010, 06:23:13 AM: I keep returning to this thread to see if anyone found my remote? :dunno:
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Post by: Skyvalhunter on January 08, 2010, 06:40:31 AM: remote :chuckle:
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Post by: Broken Arrow on January 08, 2010, 07:21:52 AM: Several years ago while drifting Ringold....back in the days when we still had a Skamania strain of fish...insted of these Metow dinks...I caught a nice 16lb steelhead that looked like it was caught before with someone fishing with piano wire....i said some thing to my friend after we boated it....i tugged on the wire and out popped a University of Idaho radio tag/plug. It said if found....return for a $25.00 reward. I thought it was to good of a trophy to return so it sits in my gun safe....Looks like it was a Snake fish that took a wrong turn.
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Post by: the shootist on January 16, 2010, 09:20:31 PM: I once caught a native brook trout in a small stream in pennsylvania that was 8 inches long and had another brook trout inside it with the tail of the fish sticking out of its' mouth. AND IT STILL BIT!!! I also caught an 18 inch brown trout with a mouse inside it, and once trapped a muskrat with an oil filter rubber ring around it's body. How he ever did that is beond me.
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Post by: upwind on January 17, 2010, 08:33:25 AM: I caught a 42 pound king salmon with a nice fishing pole connected to it. :chuckle:some one befor me snagged it in the tail and it must of got loose from ther hands. :IBCOOL:still use the pole today.
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Post by: 7mmfan on January 17, 2010, 09:02:33 AM: caught a silver while guiding in SE AK that had the cheese and lettuce from the sandwich that one of my clients threw over the side :dunno: and a 250# halibut with about a 40" lingcod all coiled up in his stomach, pretty impressive if you ask me
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Post by: fishcrazy on January 17, 2010, 08:44:18 PM: Quote from: fishcrazy on December 24, 2009, 09:31:12 PM
Alder leaves? That is strange.

I knew a guy who caught a big sucker with a "rubber" in it's stomach. :dunno:

Kris

ICEMAN,

no remote but I believe my buddy might have found something that belonged to you.

Kris
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Post by: wrangler on January 17, 2010, 09:18:16 PM: Quote from: lokidog on December 25, 2009, 10:34:30 AM

I shot a common merganser drake with a 10" spiny ray digesting in its belly....

why the hell were you diggin around in the belly of a merganser??? :chuckle:
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Post by: lokidog on January 17, 2010, 10:02:54 PM: Quote from: wrangler on January 17, 2010, 09:18:16 PM
Quote from: lokidog on December 25, 2009, 10:34:30 AM

I shot a common merganser drake with a 10" spiny ray digesting in its belly....

why the hell were you diggin around in the belly of a merganser??? :chuckle:

Popped out when I gutted it. :) They taste OK in a curry sauce.
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Post by: CastleRocker on January 19, 2010, 08:19:31 PM: Found all the usual, cig butts, hooks, lures, etc., but the most amazing one was a halibut that had six full sets of octopus beaks in it. I know they eat octopus, (that's what we used for bait fishing them commercially), but these were from really, really BIG octopie, and the halibut wasn't very big. It had round pieces of skin just hanging in several places. Apparently from the fight before the feast.

Also caught a couple salmon (commercially in AK) one that had swam through two of the six holes in one of those plastic six pack holders. Then it grew until the plastic rings went through the middle of the fish. One was through the stomach area, the other up towards the gills. The other one was a big coho, that had a huge o-ring that had done the same thing. Just like a tree will grow around a fence wire. Pretty weird looking. Amazing that they could survive.
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Post by: sako223 on January 19, 2010, 08:43:21 PM: I know a guy that went on a tuna charter while vacationing on the east coast. He got sea sick and heaved over the side of the boat losing his dentures.
End of the day they found his dentures cleaning a tuna someone else caught.
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Post by: Mookie on January 20, 2010, 02:02:28 AM: lots of crawfish. Once we were bass fishing with 5'' top water plugs, my friend caught a 2" bass, that has happened a lot. Trout fishing I snagged something while reeling in, felt like a small branch. when I got it in it was line, that was moving. I pulled the line in and there was a nice rainbow attached to a wedding ring, still alive.
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Post by: longstevo on January 20, 2010, 04:24:06 AM: Quote from: Mookie on January 20, 2010, 02:02:28 AM
lots of crawfish. Once we were bass fishing with 5'' top water plugs, my friend caught a 2" bass, that has happened a lot. Trout fishing I snagged something while reeling in, felt like a small branch. when I got it in it was line, that was moving. I pulled the line in and there was a nice rainbow attached to a wedding ring, still alive.

That very same thing happened to me a couple years ago!
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Post by: Jerome on January 20, 2010, 02:33:04 PM: This past weekend at rufus we had a beer bottle cap in 1 of their stomachs.
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Post by: let.it.fly on January 20, 2010, 02:40:20 PM: when i was stationed in okinawaw i caught a small waho that had a small morray eel in its stomach. i dont know what the eel was doing away from the reef especialy in open water
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Post by: Dmanmastertracker on January 20, 2010, 04:27:07 PM: "Re: Weirdest thing you ever found in a fish's stomach?"

Usually, my own lure :chuckle: :chuckle:, on occasion I do get lucky.

The weirdest thing I can think of were other peoples lures, I reeled in a trout at Tanwax one time when I actually snagged a line on the bottom that had snapped off someones line and the fish had swallowed their bait/ hook.
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Post by: Angus on January 21, 2010, 08:41:30 PM: While taking pictures of a 64 lbs. king I noticed something unusual sticking out of its throat, grabbed it and started pulling, ended up being an 18" baby wolf eel.
Saw a 250 lbs. halibut with a tumor/growth in its stomach, it was a calsified mass a little bigger then a softball and weighed about 15 lbs. nasty as hell. I don't keep the big girls to begin with but the thought of eating that would have made me sick. Not the 1st big butt I've seen with tumors but the only 1 I've seen in the stomach.