Fishing Forum

Two out of the 3 trips to Strawberry this year I have caught Over the slot cutts. Great right? Well I have found some "different" things in there bellys. Last week was a 23 inch cutt with a 5 inch deer hair fly deep in its stomach. Wow you think! Then Sunday caught a 24 inch male cutt with a 4 inch chunk of hotdog! Very crazy.[:p]
Did someone use a large chunk 'o dog as bait ? Or is it a better explanation to think someone ate a dog on the ice and discarded the leftovers down the hole to later be devoured by a hungry Cutthroat trout. Maybe I am tipping my jigs with the wrong bait!

This brings me to my other question. What is the strangest object you found in a fish?
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I found an empty lucky strike cigarrette package ia a catfish once.
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I caught a rainbow once with 2 or 3 cigarette butts in its stomach.

And I caught a 12-pound channel cat on the Bear one time absolutely gorged with cockle burrs.
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Last summer down at Lake Powell, in early August, I caught a 13 inch Smallie with a 12 gauge shotgun wad in its belly. F shot shotgun wad to be exact!
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Up in the uintas one year I was fishing on the east fork of the bear river and caught a 14 inch rainbow with a very bulging stomach, couldn't resist finding out what it was so I opened it up, it was a freshly gulped mouse.
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A few years back my step dad caught an unusually large brown on the weber. Decided to take a look and it was actually a pretty good sized squirrel
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Many, many years ago in a land far away, (Germany) I caught a 21 inch brown trout that had two shrews in it's belly. The brown trout helped me win a Saturday derby held by the Rod and Gun Club of my Dad's Army base in southern Germany. When I cut it open after the weigh-in there were quite a few surprised fishermen standing around. It might explain why large black maribou jigs are a great lure for big browns.

It occured to me that many people don't know what a shrew is. Well, here's a photo of one like I found in the trout back in 1968.



Mike
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Caught a steel head on the salmon river. Had a black line sticking out of its mouth. It was a hatchery fish, so I was keeping it, so I gave the line a pull. Wanted to find out if it had a lure attached. Out came a small transducer the black thing was the antenna.

Caught a 30 inch pike once with a 16 inch pikes tail hanging out of its mouth. He could not get enough.
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Cigarette butts, .22 shells, pine cones.

The weirdest was a grebe's head (just the head) in a 16-inch splake at Navajo Lake.
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Hmmmmm makes you wonder what one of those 40" plus Tiger Muskies could swallow? a Buick.[]
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My other jig from my second pole!! While ice fishing w/ two poles, reeled up the fish in a hurry because my other pole was bouncing like crazy, and both jigs were in his mouth, took me a second to figure out what heck was going on. Took both hooks out and released it back down the hole. Still to this day dont know how excatly he got both of them? One hungry Rainbow, I guess!
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I didn't catch it but another fisherman caught a shark with a head light in it...
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Me and a buddy of mine fishing the Ogden River. he caught a 16 or 17 inch Brown. it had a 4 or 5 inch Perch in his stomach...
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Jordan River, just below Riverside G.C. 20" Catfish... Range Ball.
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I caught a big cutt at the berry and it had peanuts in its belly. My dad caught a nice cat on the bear and it spit up a 2 foot water snake when I lifted it in the boat.
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I caught a 23" Cutt at strawberry with a 8" Bow with the tail just inside his mouth, he also had two hooks with leader hanging out ... not sure how he got the bow past all them hooks! Hungry fish!
But the weirdest thing was a 45" Wahoo with a full can of Coors beer down his stomach! We didn't find it till we were getting all the fish cleaned that night on the dock... The guy cleaning the fish thought we put it there, but we weren't drinking coors! Didn't get a chance to take a pic cuz the fish cleaning guy thought it was a gag... We let him drink it! LOL
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[]Lake Powell, in a slot canyon a smallie with a bit of a tale sticking out the mouth. Checked it out. A lizzard. Pulled it out and it was dead. Put him in the sun on the back of boat. Later he was running around boat. We named him Lazereth.[sly]
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My wife caught a 6lb mac up at the gorge that had a couple of foam strike indicators and a whole chicken drumstick in its belly. I also caught a cutt at current creek that had a vol in it.
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One time I caught a whale of a catfish on the bear river...found a little man named Jonah in his belly. The guy said he'd been in there for 40 days and 40 nights. I told him to get a job and tossed him back in the water, keeping the fish...
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Grandma's rocking chair. Damn I miss that chair.

A tora sized tube set up, in the belly of a 3lb pup.
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