Rat Eating Brown

[Bill Babler]

 

Had to post this picture from yesterday. Lynn caught this 20 1/4 inch brown, that was simply a beautiful fish. 

This fish had a huge RAT in its stomach. The tail was sticking out of his throat and it was not a mouse but a big rat

Fish was caught and released just down from Cooper Creek on the college side on a pink Berkley power worm. 

[Travis Swift]

Probably fell out of one of those brushpiles over there.  Beautiful fish and cool story.  Still going to invest some time one of these days to my bigger swimbaits and glidebaits down there.  Maybe next week, we will see.  

[Bill Babler]

Travis,
That area has produced some of the largest fish in the entire lake. As you can see it’s right by the slews and just by the Artisian water that comes into that pocket across from Cooper out of the college

Main lake there is called the DerrickHole  as there is a series of gravel riffles. Back in the day the gravel Gerdy mined that area and it is most always a good location

Good Luck

[Quillback]

That is pretty neat and one less rat in the world is a good thing.  Hope that fish gets more.

[Travis Swift]

1 hour ago, Bill Babler said:

Travis,
That area has produced some of the largest fish in the entire lake. As you can see it’s right by the slews and just by the Artisian water that comes into that pocket across from Cooper out of the college

Main lake there is called the DerrickHole  as there is a series of gravel riffles. Back in the day the gravel Gerdy mined that area and it is most always a good location

Good Luck

I've caught some good browns there thru the years for sure.  In fact my first ever 20 inch brown way back in like 1992 I caught out of the last brushpile there on a husky jerk.  I always figured that eddy at the end past the waterfall gets loaded with dinky bow's during generation and the big browns could just come in and pick them off about anytime they cared to.  That's cool about the Gerdy though, I hadn't realized that.  Anytime I want to get my young daughter in fish I always head for that eddy at the end of the bluff and give her a jig with an orange head and it's about as automatic as anyplace on the lake for a kiddo to catch one it seems.  

[Travis Swift]

Here's a picture of it.. That was a long long long time ago ahahha.  Well over 30 years ago. We used to stay at Sun Valley then and goodness do I miss that place simply for the memories as we went there every year on vacation.  I think a guy named Dale owned it back then and it was a top notch joint.. Atleast it was to a kid.  Back then there wasn't very many of us throwing jerkbaits......goodness I miss those days!  So many more fish and follows than there is now.  

[netboy]

I remember watching a fishing show on TV where they were fishing for Tiamen (a tout species) in Mongolia and were using a big fly that looked like a rodent. They would strip it on the surface and the strikes were very aggressive. 

[Flysmallie]

2 hours ago, netboy said:

I remember watching a fishing show on TV where they were fishing for Tiamen (a tout species) in Mongolia and were using a big fly that looked like a rodent. They would strip it on the surface and the strikes were very aggressive. 

Guys use mouse flies on Taney pretty often.