What have you found in a fish’s mouth

  • bigcrappie
    Blaine
    Posts: 4286
    #1269948

    I mean likes someones jig or even your own broken off lure. I was fishing with a guide last summer and I caught a slimmer with a green jig in its mouth and the guide said that he got broken off the day before in the same area and that was his jig.
    What happens to the rapalas we loose on a break off? Anyone find any thing cool?

    Brian Klawitter
    Keymaster
    Minnesota/Wisconsin Mississippi River
    Posts: 59992
    #917661

    A couple of Aprils ago just before the Sturgeon Excursion, I hooked into a medium size sturgeon on the Rainy just after the walleye season closed with 4 jigs in it’s mouth. Orange must have been a hot color that year.

    fil
    Alberta, Canada
    Posts: 52
    #917663

    same sort of thing, hooked into a pike 3 times in the day and was broke off, thought it was different fish until it was a 10 lb northern with teeth like a skill saw blade lol
    2 chubby darters and a jiggin rap collected back and a nice picture lol

    jeremy-crawford
    Cedar Rapids Area
    Posts: 1530
    #917665

    Better yet, what have you found in your livewell.. Baby birds, a snake once, lampre, a bobber ( wasn’t in before I tossed the fish in there ).. Pleanty of baits, one bass tossed up a 10 inch poswer lizard.

    Czech
    Cottage Grove, MN
    Posts: 1574
    #917666

    Or how about in the fishes belly when cleaning? That picture of the cat with the chicken bone belly last summer was funny!

    cpetey
    Onalaska, Wi
    Posts: 1193
    #917668

    I caught a smallie last summer that had a 4/0 or 5/0 hook coming out of its rearend. I have no idea how that thing made it through the gut of that fish. I took a pic. I’ll see if I can find it.

    Last summer I caught a pike that had a broken top jaw. It was sticking out from its face at a right angle. About a month later, I caught that same fish about 3/4 of a mile away from the first catch and release.

    timschmitz
    Waconia MN
    Posts: 1652
    #917671

    Back about 8 years ago I decided to go to the BWCA for opener bald eagle lake to be exact. Well Saturday I got a couple small pike and eyes when I was cleaning one of the pike I could feel some thing in it’s belly it turned out to be 2 zoom brush hogs on 1/8 oz jigs. The baits had to of been from the fall before and they looked like they had doubled in size.

    tgruenke
    IGH, MN/Holcombe, WI
    Posts: 587
    #917673

    Those are all funny

    On my honeymoon my wife and I were fishing in canada. She missed a walleye, a few minutes later I landed a nice fish with her leech in it’s mouth. My dad also caught a 20″ largemouth after it ate a nice bluegill that he was trying to land. We got both fish and actually kept the bluefill for dinner.

    salmo_trutta
    River Falls,WI
    Posts: 661
    #917676

    This summer I caught a tank 30″ pike out of Superior and when I landed it I noticed the fish had spiderwire triple looped through its mouth and gills and into its stomach. When I cleaned it out I found a 30″ leader with half dissolved hook attached to 4 feet of spiderwire, a foot of mono with a swivel and hook, and then to top it off a 12″ cisco, the entire thing! Must of been on a tear there for a while.

    tgruenke
    IGH, MN/Holcombe, WI
    Posts: 587
    #917682

    I lost a flashlight down a hole last winter. I wonder if there’s a fish with my maglite in it’s gut?

    Sam Held
    Rocklake, ND
    Posts: 59
    #917691

    I caught a pike on a crankbait that was still attached to a stringer with 2 living walleyes on maple lake. The stringer was one of those chain ones with metal clips but the chain was only about 6 inches long above the clips must have been a weak link.

    Dean Marshall
    Chippewa Falls WI /Ramsey MN
    Posts: 5854
    #917696

    How bout that catfish BK caught with the rubber ball stuck in its mouth?

    Brian Klawitter
    Keymaster
    Minnesota/Wisconsin Mississippi River
    Posts: 59992
    #917703

    I don’t know if I’ve ever seen the pics of that one Dean.

    budd1980
    IGH MN
    Posts: 17
    #917706

    I was making a drift on Clear Lake and lost a nice walleye at the boat. very next drift i re-hooked it and got a fish for my livewell and my jig back.

    fishthumper
    Sartell, MN.
    Posts: 11841
    #898852

    Last summer at the weigh-in of a Bass tourney one guy had a bass with a muskrat about half way down its throat. It was a full sized adult muskrat and the bass was not all that Big 9 maybe 4 Lbs. I think the muskrat must have added another Lb.to his total weight. If I remember correctly that additional 1 Lb. got him into the money.

    cpetey
    Onalaska, Wi
    Posts: 1193
    #917715

    I caught a pike that had a small box turtle in its gut.

    AllenW
    Mpls, MN
    Posts: 2895
    #917717

    On all to seldom occurances, I find my bait in their mouth…

    Al

    walleyebuster5
    Central MN
    Posts: 3916
    #917751

    Great Post!!!!

    I haven’t found anything too strang in the mounths..BUT, once I had nice bite while drifting for some walleyes.. Fed some line, just as I was about to set the hook I see a loon pop up about 20 feet from the boat with MY Floater and MInnow sidways in her mouth! I did a quick snap of the rod and it yanked out. Thankfully!

    chomps
    Sioux City IA
    Posts: 3974
    #917758

    caught a 5-6# northern ice fishing, was wondering what all the line was laying around, started pulling the line and felt some weight, pulled a pretty nice rod and reel from the bottom, looked closely in the pikes mouth and found a jig attached to the line. Rod sure looked familure. Went back to the house and had the bucket of rods setting on the deck, brother walks by and asked where I found his rod! Said he was out the evening before in the fish house, heard something, and looked over just in time to see his rod go down the hole. Guess it was his lucky day!

    hags54701
    Eau Claire, WI
    Posts: 113
    #917769

    Great idea for a post. About five years ago we were walleye fishing below the dam in DePere and a friend of mine hooked a sturgeon which isn’t that uncommon over there. Well, he fought this thing for over an hour….huge. We had to go downstream a ways to get it out of the current to even have a chance. Well, finally it gave in and we had it basically beached. When that creature came into the shallows his back looked like a bait rack at Gander. We counted 9 crankbaits attached to its back including ours. Well, as we were about to make a cleaning on free baits, the fish gave a burst and broke off. We just looked at each other and just felt about as dumb as you can imagine in that situation. Not only did we not get any of the free baits she was offering, but we also lost ours in the process. Quite a memory for sure!

    Grouse_Dog
    The Shores of Lake Harriet
    Posts: 2043
    #917772

    Ducks, Frogs, other fish….

    I have cut hooks but never a lure.

    Dog

    dfresh
    Fridley, MN
    Posts: 3053
    #917778

    Caught a small flathead once down by Mankato a few years back that had about a 10/0 Kahle hook in its mouth. Pulled that hook right out and threw it in the tackle box. Think I still have it!

    Mocha
    Park Rapids
    Posts: 1452
    #917781

    Caught a northern a few years back on Devils lake with a full complete hot dog in its stomach. I don’t know how he did not get hooked on our quick strike rig from the day before but they sure like the hot dogs:)

    mplspug
    Palmetto, Florida
    Posts: 25026
    #917799

    I don’t remember anything really unusual. I did get a little smallmouth this year that had a line coming out of his mouth and a hook in it’s gullet. It appeared to have been there for some time. Oddly enough it was caught right after a discussion on here last spring about mortality of fish when leaving the hook and line in them. This guy obviously had no issue maneuvering his food around the hook and down his gullet.

    Stomach contents! That is the most exciting part of filleting a fish for me, checking out the stomach contents.

    desperado
    Posts: 3010
    #917809

    its teeth
    and
    its tongue

    whiskeysour
    4 miles from Pool 9
    Posts: 693
    #917817

    Was catfishing on the Pecatonica last summer. Had a line break while using stink bait. About a hour later caught a cat about 150 yards down stream. Had my broken off catfish worm in it’s mouth.

    jon johansen
    menomonie wi
    Posts: 51
    #917847

    Fishing north of the border with some friends when a buddy in the other boat lost a walleye. I said ” i’ll get it ” casted buy their boat and BHAM. Fish on! landed the walleye with his jig in it’s mouth. pulled the jig and threw it back. He must not have been looking cause his head sunk down in like a turtle!He said the jig hit him on the button on his hat

    jd318
    NE Nebraska
    Posts: 757
    #917895

    Just out of college, prior to having a boat, a friend and I were float tubing in a small pond. Caught a crappie with a small ice fishing jig in it’s mouth, line still attached. Pulled on the line and landed an ice fishing rod.

    iceman1985
    Grand Rapids, MI
    Posts: 257
    #918058

    Quote:


    Just out of college, prior to having a boat, a friend and I were float tubing in a small pond. Caught a crappie with a small ice fishing jig in it’s mouth, line still attached. Pulled on the line and landed an ice fishing rod.


    That is a great way to supliment your income. If only we could all find fishing rods that way.

    walleyebuster5
    Central MN
    Posts: 3916
    #918059

    Quote:


    Fishing north of the border with some friends when a buddy in the other boat lost a walleye. I said ” i’ll get it ” casted buy their boat and BHAM. Fish on! landed the walleye with his jig in it’s mouth. pulled the jig and threw it back. He must not have been looking cause his head sunk down in like a turtle!He said the jig hit him on the button on his hat


    Now that is a Crazy string of events..

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