Author Topic: weird stuff in a pikes belly, what have you seen? (Read 5849 times)

fishguts. · « **on:** Jan 27, 2004, 07:35 PM »

ive seen just about every species of fish in the lake in there bellies when cleaning them. but the oddest was one had 4 big green frogs {this is in febuary,} and another had a full grown clam in his gut. what have you guys found?

kerosenecounty17 · « **Reply #1 on:** Jan 27, 2004, 07:44 PM »

Found my black plastic weedless frog that one stole from me the day before while bass fishing. Second time around I was using a leader. Good for me, bad for him.

kero

howey1176 · « **Reply #2 on:** Jan 27, 2004, 07:55 PM »

Baby geese, and chicken bones.

cold_feet · « **Reply #3 on:** Jan 27, 2004, 08:20 PM »

Found a diver once. Once I got him out he was ok then went on his way after a nice Thank You.
Cold Feet

GEEMAN · « **Reply #4 on:** Jan 27, 2004, 08:20 PM »

A 16 penny nail. As shiney as a day is long too it was. LOL

nuke1neil · « **Reply #5 on:** Jan 27, 2004, 08:40 PM »

Hey fishguts,as far as I'm concerned you can be a wisea$% all you want if you keep coming up with these interesting topics!!!!

BuckShotJon · « **Reply #6 on:** Jan 28, 2004, 08:29 AM »

Caught a pike with a mouse inside of his gut one time. Caught the pike on a top water lure. Went to the store next day and bought a top water mouse lure and went back, caught some more decent pike and bass.

Jon

ChenBassHead · « **Reply #7 on:** Jan 28, 2004, 08:49 AM »

In Connecticut, a friend of my dad caught a pike that had a duckling in it's gut. One time we were bass fishing a small pond and watched a huge bass come up and drill another duckling. Surprises the hell out of ya when you see that!

Zach

Ottawa_fish · « **Reply #8 on:** Jan 28, 2004, 08:49 AM »

Sigarete butts in trout. Talk about danger of smoking.

Fish Monger · « **Reply #9 on:** Jan 28, 2004, 08:55 AM »

I have watched people gut trout and found butts in the gut. Also, all kinds of rubber lures (worms and slugo's) in the stomache. I gutted one that was ful of little red berry things, I suppose they could have been partially digested salmon eggs, but it didn't look like it.

fishguts. · « **Reply #10 on:** Jan 28, 2004, 10:18 AM »

darn guys im thinking of using some butts on my downriggers for lakers!

_FLAG_ · « **Reply #11 on:** Jan 28, 2004, 10:21 AM »

8 pound togue from Sebago==== 33 cigarette butts, 2 slugos and 1 6" sucker that killed him..... amazing at what they eat....

WVBoy · « **Reply #12 on:** Jan 28, 2004, 11:53 AM »

Hey fishguts, There shouldnt be a surprise that you found frogs in its guts in Feb

Northern will root around in the mud in the winter to kick up hibernating frogs. A raw nose is a good indicator of that.They loooove frogs.[Wonder if anybody has tried frogs on tip ups

or jigging with imitations. Cool topic!!!quote author=fishguts. link=board=1;threadid=9010;start=0#msg76820 date=1075253734]
ive seen just about every species of fish in the lake in there bellies when cleaning them. but the oddest was one had 4 big green frogs {this is in febuary,} and another had a full grown clam in his gut. what have you guys found?

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dogfish · « **Reply #13 on:** Jan 28, 2004, 12:05 PM »

Spring ice fishing I have caught Northerns with there snouts all full of mud and there bellys with frogs in them. They must dig them out of the mud?

captinjohn · « **Reply #14 on:** Jan 28, 2004, 06:54 PM »

I was fishing pike one day and got one on right away, but lost him just as fast. I did not have the line tied to the swivel good. I put on another dare devil and got a pike on and landed that one. Sure enough, my lure I just lost was in his mouth!!! Capt,n

walleyeseeker · « **Reply #15 on:** Jan 28, 2004, 08:16 PM »

I caught a 12 lb pike when I was younger that had two muscrats inside of it. I was using a large spoon and that gator was still hungry.

fishermanjake · « **Reply #16 on:** Jan 29, 2004, 04:28 AM »

i lost a jig with a soft bait and some cutbait on it on the bottom, two days later i was using setlines for burbot and i catch a nice 7-8 pounder in the same place. when i was cleaning the burbot there was something hard in its belly, so i opened it up and there is the jig i lost, plus a mouse. How it got the mouse in december with at least 2 feet of ice on the river is beyond me.

Little Brown Dog · « **Reply #17 on:** Jan 29, 2004, 06:40 AM »

I cleaned a pike for a group of school kids and it had a frog and two small rocks in the stomach. Must have been digging around and bumped into what it thought was more frogs!

grumpymoe · « **Reply #18 on:** Jan 29, 2004, 08:44 AM »

a nice long garter snake. yuuk!! they will eat anything that moves... grumpymoe

2 dogs · « **Reply #19 on:** Feb 07, 2004, 04:31 PM »

This is why I love this site, I learn something everytime I go on. I have found frogs in Pike in the middle of Feb here in NE Wi. and wondered where they found them and now know. Thanks for the info.

deadsmelthead · « **Reply #20 on:** Feb 07, 2004, 06:38 PM »

Anyone know where I can get some nice frogs?

Trevor · « **Reply #21 on:** Feb 07, 2004, 09:22 PM »

I wonder if they buzz out on the nicotine?

bigfish57 · « **Reply #22 on:** Feb 08, 2004, 09:57 AM »

There is a seriouse study up here in Maine about all the soft plastics that get lost in the water....seems the brown trout in particular eat them right up then get intestinal blockeges that stunt and or kill them. They attribute the high number in browns becasue they inhabit the same deep struckture that bass do.

fishercat · « **Reply #23 on:** Feb 08, 2004, 11:01 AM »

I have got 2-3 rainbows with rubber worms in them. I also do not believe thay can pass these baits. As it looked, the worms I found looked to be in side of the fish for a long time.

olds-Pa · « **Reply #24 on:** Feb 08, 2004, 04:39 PM »

I have not seen anything unusual in the pike i've caught ice fishing, but i caught one that had 19 minnows in it. The 20th one was his downfall. Another time i got one that had eaten so many leeches that they were crawling back out of it's stomach.
Hey Cold Feet, could you tell me what brand of beer you drink. I kinda would like to try some......

..........olds

OU812 · « **Reply #25 on:** Feb 09, 2004, 01:42 PM »

Quote from: walleyeseeker on Jan 28, 2004, 08:16 PM

I caught a 12 lb pike when I was younger that had two muscrats inside of it. I was using a large spoon and that gator was still hungry.

That is CRAZY!! About how big were those Muskrat?
I was thinking about trying more topwater stuff this summer but this is getting ridiculous

missfishylicious · « **Reply #26 on:** Feb 09, 2004, 05:51 PM »

I know the muskrats swim with there tails out of the water were we fish in canada the locals say it's to keep the pike from bitting it off I've seen the pike I believe it

hard_waterer · « **Reply #27 on:** Feb 09, 2004, 06:12 PM »

Guy caught a 22lb pike up here in Maine, took it to the taxidermist, the taxidermist found a 7lb brown trout when he cleaned it.

buzzbomb · « **Reply #28 on:** Feb 09, 2004, 06:20 PM »

There was an item in an old Outdoor Life (pretty sure) and there was a picture of it....a pike had a muscrat stuck in it's throat and still hit the lure and got caught, even though it would of been impossible for the fish to swallow it. That's dedication.

fishguts. · « **Reply #29 on:** Feb 09, 2004, 06:40 PM »

yup we had a good size pike this year on a tipup the thing had the tail of a big whitefish sticking out its mouth and the head of it was half digested and the swamp racer still wanted more!

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