Stomach Contents

[John P]

I LOVE THIS POST. Goes to show these fish will eat everything. I guess I'll be looking for lobster pots. JP

[SG1]

Last November I was fishing the bay as the pine needles were falling onto the water. I took a nice bass home and found it loaded with pine needles.....

Got me thinking about a pine needle fly .

[Barnacle]

I caught this one last friday night on the North shore of Long Island on a blurple bomber. With all of the baitfish in the water I expected to find them in the fish's stomach. Instead the stomach was full of small crabs.

 

Bill

[EugeneChoe]

makes me gag when that smell hits my face, rotten half digested bunker, delicious.

awesome thread

[stakones]

very cool thread. East ender how big were the fluke?

[East Ender]

Maybe 12-14". That bass was 26#. I would have released her, except I foul hooked her rite under the dorsal.I was fishing one of the local inlets on a strong spring incoming tide, it was a 45 min battle to land her there was no way to revive, she was sideways in the current for about 30 min. I thought I hooked a boat I wouldnt wish that on my worst enemy. What a tho.

[Ratty]

June this year in the Canal....

[smirkplug]

I love those minimacks, some of the photos look like things that are eating the stripers, not things the stripers ate !!!

[xmytruck]

WOW this is a very cool post

[wishiniwuzfishin]

This spring, and you don't need to point out I forgot to remove the little tubes on the rear treble.

[jbt114]

This spring, and you don't need to point out I forgot to remove the little tubes on the rear treble.

 

 

What did you filet that with, a weed whacker?

 

Chris

 

p.s. You forgot to remove the plastic thingys on the rear treble...

[wishiniwuzfishin]

I see no evidence of the filet job in the pic? Those are 3 mostly digested fishies... and the wooden one that fooled him!

[jbt114]

My bad... LOL

 

Now I see it.

 

One of those moments...

 

Chris

[echopeus]

well at least you didnt forget to take the tubes off the front one too

[Surfrat666]

Unfortunately no pix, but a couple years back I had an 18 lb bass on a south shore beach sandbar. Left it on the beach for a little while as I fished some more. When I came back to it to leave, there were 3-4 dead mole crabs lying next to it (you know the little bullet shaped ones that you find when you dig in the sand near the shoreline).

 

When I picked up the fish, another mole crab popped out of the fish's vent. Well it turns out the whole digestive tract was full of those little suckers....21 in all, lined up from the stomach to the vent. Not really sure what nutrition the fish is getting out of them as they barely looked digested.

 

Needless to say, the only thing the fish were hitting that day was small bucktails in the white water.

 

-Scott