North Fork issue

[trythisonemv]

18 hours ago, snagged in outlet 3 said:

I found this in the Crane section.  May @trythisonemvor @drew03cmccan chime in?  They seem to fish there a lot.

 

I believe it was the late 20s if not mistaken. 

[trythisonemv]

Probably worth noting that crane has been washed out. .   ottered out....fished heavily and it still remains full of fish. I think the north fork will be fine.it has tributaries that safe during flood and trout are pretty resilient. 

[Ham]

2 hours ago, trythisonemv said:

Probably worth noting that crane has been washed out. .   ottered out....fished heavily and it still remains full of fish. I think the north fork will be fine.it has tributaries that safe during flood and trout are pretty resilient. 

I bet otters think trout taste awful too. 

[gotmuddy]

9 minutes ago, Ham said:

I bet otters think trout taste awful too. 

I bet they spend their time eating the abundant crawfish...they would taste way better

[Gavin]

Otter scat piles are FULL of crawfish. Stripers like crawfish better than trout, I think. I've gutted two stripers from the NFoW, and full of craw. Caught both of those on shad colored jerkbaits (4"-5" suspenders). Good eats!

[Ham]

2 hours ago, gotmuddy said:

I bet they spend their time eating the abundant crawfish...they would taste way better

The ones I have watched feeding come up to the surface crunching on crawfish. 

[Johnsfolly]

11 minutes ago, Ham said:

The ones I have watched feeding come up to the surface crunching on crawfish. 

I have only seen them eat fish. Watched one in a strip pit lake in Columbia. It would dive and catch bluegill, eat their heads only, and go dive for another one.

[fishinwrench]

1 minute ago, Johnsfolly said:

I have only seen them eat fish. Watched one in a strip pit lake in Columbia. It would dive and catch bluegill, eat their heads only, and go dive for another one.

We have bald eagles around here that do even worse.   They eat the eyeballs, and peck a hole in the belly to get the eggs out.   The rest gets left on an island to rot.     Too cold for the coons and possums to swim out there I guess.

[Gavin]

Guess you have never been to Alaska....The bald eagle is a glorified vulture that prefers ripe carrion. They like their fish rotten and aged.

 

 

[Quillback]

Used to be a bunch of eagles that wintered over at Swepco, not unusual to see 20-30 of them.  Then a few years ago they pretty much all disappeared.  Previously chicken farmers in the area would toss dead chickens out on the ground that had died in the chicken houses and the eagles would eat them (talk about nasty carrion).  The state made it illegal to do the chicken toss and the eagles left.