Another Down The Hatch!

[Chief Grey Bear]

I snuck in a little fishing Wednesday, thinking it would be the last good day for fishing for a while due to the weather reports of what was coming.

I was right about one thing, it was the last great day to fish. I don't think the fish had the same thought. I floated a section that I really don't like and it reminded me again just why. It SUCKS! I should have hit a different section but, didn't think about it until it was too late.

Anyway, the reason for this post is the following photo. I just thought you guy's my like it.

I also snapped this photo, basically, because I didn't have anything esle to take a pic of. I almost got to get a photo of a coyote. I looked down stream and he was watching me. I went for the camera and before I could get it focused, he left. Oh well. But hey, here comes another one. He froze in his tracks and looked at where the other one had gone and then looked at me and vanished.

Anyway, enjoy.

[eric1978]

Could you tell what kind of fish it was down his throat? Tough to tell from the pic.

[Chief Grey Bear]

Well I am not for sure. Since this was a brownie, I thought for sure it was a Kentucky.

Seriously though I believe it to be either a Creek Chub or a Central Stoneroller. It is really hard to say. There is not much to go on there.

[Buzz]

Cool pic Chief. Just goes to show that they are eating pretty good, and still hungry enough to eat your plug.

[brownieman]

Pictures like that 1st one help show one thing also... big bait = big fish.

Several warm and cold water species will eat anything they can get their mouth around. The bigger fish will eat one big meal instead of exausting alot of energy chasing small stuff around. IMO they eat big and watch all the dinks swim around chasing everything.

This eliminates the need to feed as often...just lay around, digest and get big and fat. I think that's why there is so much fishing time required to hook up with a large muskie. I could be wrong but I would speculate and say they only feed once every few days, catch something large as possible then just sit and grow.

I'm sure we have all found strange things in a fishes gullet...one of my strangest was a young robin that a LMB about 5 lbs or so had just eatin, didn't even have it down yet and was trying to cram my buzzbait in it's mouth too. Showed a couple of things about that particular fish...was a real pig and liked to feed off the surface.

I know when raising LMB a 2 day old fry will eat a 1 day old fry and so on for about the first week

and a half of their lives...the growth rate is amazing when they first swim up, plus momma protects them for a few days and then they are on their own.

Even though the fishing wasn't great chief was a good day to be on the water.

later on

bm

[Chief Grey Bear]

Pictures like that 1st one help show one thing also... big bait = big fish.

With out a doubt bman! One would be surpised at the size of forage that predetor fish consume. If it will fit into their mouth, they will eat it!

Did you see the photo in my other "Down the hatch" photo? If not, take a look at the size of the pincher sticking out of that brownies throat! That craw must have been half the size of the fish! And he still wasn't done, he took my crankbait too!