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So I took my boys to AF today so mom could have some quiet time. They had a
blast with the white bass. Probably got about 40-50 in an hour.
My oldest hooked up with about an 8 inch perch. When we opened it up the
stomach looked kinda funny. When I looked closer I couldnt belive this thing
was still alive. Crazy the things you'll find in a fish.
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Sometimes I think yellow perch are like bluegill in that they will try to cram stuff half their size into their mouth. I'm sure he saw that 3" grub and thought, "This ain't nothin'!"
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I found almost exactly the same thing in a small trout from Holmes Creek Rez a few years back. I wondred why he ate it if it was just titting there and wasn't moving or acting like anything.
Similar proportional size, too. Wild.
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Sorry, mis-clicked on the reply. That seems to me to be a bass or perch behavior; bluegill have such tiny mouths. There is a Youtube vid of some perch geting caught through the ice, when one tries to take a jig/bait out of another's mouth and ends up with a fish just smaller than him jammed halfway down his gullet.
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Bluegill do have small mouths but it doesn't seem to keep them from trying to eat crank baits, large soft plastics, etc. I hooked into a nice 9.5 inch female gill this year on a 2/0 hook rigged for catfish. Go figure...
P.S. I know the exact video you are referring to and it makes me laugh every time!
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[quote Springbuck] . . .There is a Youtube vid of some perch geting caught through the ice, when one tries to take a jig/bait out of another's mouth and ends up with a fish just smaller than him jammed halfway down his gullet.[/quote]
That's my favoritest video ever. Made me get an underwater camera. The 2:00 mark - yup - tries to swallow a fish half his size! Gves him a good shake anyway. Just fascinating to see the perch get sucked skyward - while the others just muddle on.
Seen a show where a big big bass was found floating, had a Talapia crammed in it's mouth. Funny thing was - when they pried the Talapia out of the Bass's mouth - IT was still alive - and actually swam away. The bass - not so lucky.
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I didn't see a hook in the grub?
Things that make you go hmmmmm . . .
Looks like the kids had a great time!
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I once kept an 11.5" largemouth that threw up a 7" plastic worm along with a mouse in my basket.
Those bluegill can be very aggressive. [inline "gill small.JPG"]Granted this was a decent sized gill at 10", but still quite a mouthful.
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Yeah, I guess I mis-spoke (wrote?) Bluegill CAN be darned aggressive, almost belligerent on their nests, etc. I just was wondering how much you could cram into that tiny bug-eater mouth.
My perch fishing improved considerably when it dawned on me that they have pretty big mouths for their size and maybe I didn't need jigs the size of scud flies.
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Wow hungry little felles
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How thick was the ice you were fishing on?
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I was shore fishing at Huntington north a few years back and came across a big brown trout who had tried to eat a green sunfish that was bigger than the trout's head. The trout was dead but the sun was still flipping. So I release the little fellow and he swam away like nothing happened.
Make you wonder what the trout was thinking. For that matter you wonder if the sunfish knew how close he was to death.
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That reminds me of a large brown I found on the lower Provo once that had tried eating a large sculpin tail first. It had gotten stuck at the large pectoral fins. I tried to scoop him up to remove the blockage, but he got away.
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The ice was about 3-4".
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caught a white bass at utah lake once with the hook end of a jig head coming out of his rear end lol. fish are nuts i love em!
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Ha Ha, talk about a pain in the a$$
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s on those boys faces. Easy to tell they were having a great time!