Fishing Forum

I don't know how many of you have heard Bill Engvall's comedy routine entitled "Dork Fish" but I think it's hilarious. In his routine he talks about catching the most unusual looking fish which he calls a dork fish.

Well anyway, on Friday the 1st, and no this isn't an April Fools joke, I took my wife, 3 year old son, and SVPDGCAR to Burrason Ponds. We had just gotten our poles in the water and my son wanted to go play on some rocks. When we got back to our poles I saw the line on my pole going tight and told my wife to grab my pole and reel in the fish. Knowing the average size of fish in Burraston Ponds I didn't think it would be much of a fish, and it didn't put up much of a fight. When my wife and son finally got the fish close to shore I was surprised to see how big it was, and how ugly it was.

The fish ended up being 19 inches long and weighed about three pounds. The head of the fish seemed to take up about one third the total size of the fish and was very misproportioned. All the underside fins on the fish were worn to nubs and the tail of the fish was rounded instead of the normal tail shape of a fish. The fish had an ugly hook jaw that looked like the perfect shape for eating corn dogs (reference Bill Engvall).

We ended up calling the fish Mr. Dork Fish and my son wanted to keep it. I felt so bad for the fish I decided to take it out of it's misery so the other fish would stop making fun of it. On the way home I told my son we would be cutting Mr. Dork Fish so we could eat him and my son about lost it. He started crying because he didn't want us to cut Mr. Dork Fish. Needless to say Mr. Dork Fish now resides, un-cut, in our freezer.

Before the trip another guy at work told me about the old breeding stock fish at the hatcheries that are released in Burraston ponds and I am assuming this is one of them. I am assuming the worn down fins are from the cement runs at the hatcheries.

I just had to share the "tail" of Mr. Dork Fish and will be attaching a couple of pictures. It is hard to see the size of Mr. Dork Fish's head in the pictures to really appreciate how unusually large his head was. My wife caught one other fish that day and Svpdgcar caught one fish. It was a beautiful day even with the slow pre-stock conditions of Burraston Ponds.
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That is one ugly trout!!!
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That fish is probably the proud papa of hundreds (maybe thousands?) of little hatchery pets. It doesn't look like his meat is going to taste very good though.
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Isn't that a female since it's mouth is[black][size 5] OPEN....[/size][/black]
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Probably...I don't know. I have always been under the impression that a hooked jaw and bigger head meant that it was a male. Don't females usually have blunt noses?
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The worst part about dork fish is he was caught about 10 mintues after we got there. He gave me high hopes. We didn't catch a thing for about two hours after him. I think you did nature a favor by getting Dork Fish out of the gene pool. []

By the way Fishluvr...... I got to thinking..... you know this is the first fishing trip we've been on that I've out fished you. Although I can't brag too much your wife out fished us both! [sly]

By the way what bait did she use to catch him? A corndog?
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Hey that is one of those planters from the hatchery.They stock them just before the holidays.Next stocking date would be a week before memorial day.
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Excellent catch,that was a good Idea to get that out of the Gene Pool.Have you ever seen Deliverance?Same thing,ha,ha! PEACE!!!
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I stopped by Burraston Ponds about a month ago and several people had caught fish that looked a lot like your "dork fish." They were of a good size (18"), had big heads, skinny bodies, and a hook jaw, and their fins were all worn off. Some of these characteristics seem to be related to the spawn, but I don't know about the worn-down tail. Does anybody?
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