Author Topic: Northern Belly Contents (Read 14504 times)

fishermen50 · « **on:** Mar 07, 2007, 04:54 AM »

While cleaning a large Northern I found a crumpled up brown paper towel with a bandaid wrapper in it. Guess they will eat anything, any other weird things out there??
Rich

pikemaster789 · « **Reply #1 on:** Mar 07, 2007, 05:09 AM »

I mean I guess it isnt that bizzar, but when I was fishing in canada, I caught a real skinny pike with about 12" of linecoming out of the side of his stomach. he also had a treble hook partially poking out of the side of his stomach. He was real skinny and unhealthy looking. I doubt he made it

maineduckhunter · « **Reply #2 on:** Mar 07, 2007, 08:21 AM »

I've opened up Brown Trout with rubber worms in there bellies, and had one just this year, a rainbow, spit out about a 3 inch rubber worm. Talked to a guy this summer that was fishing for togue and when he was cleaning them out he found cigarette butts in there belly. Fish will eat anything.

Wild-man · « **Reply #3 on:** Mar 07, 2007, 01:07 PM »

well... not so wierd as it is IMPRESSIVE!!
2 yrs. ago we cleaned a 9lb pike that had a legal size (43cm) walleye in his belly!!!
also, about 10 yrs. ago my buddy cleaned a similar sized pike and found a baby duck in it!!!
these weren't MASSIVE fish at all. just super-mental fish!!!!

hardysf · « **Reply #4 on:** Mar 07, 2007, 01:32 PM »

Just 4 days ago cleaned a 33 inch pike. Had 4 bluegill, two chubs, a shiner, and a 4/0 Gamagastu hook in its stomach. Still wanted our 8 inch pike shiner on the tipup too.

fishermanjake · « **Reply #5 on:** Mar 07, 2007, 06:41 PM »

I lost a jig on the bottom tipped with bait and caght a nice burbot on a set line close by 2 days later, the belly had something hard in it...Turned out it was my jig that I had lost!!! not only was the jig in its belly, but there was also an only slightly digested red backed vole (mouse)!!! This was through the ice in december!!!

pikemaster789 · « **Reply #6 on:** Mar 07, 2007, 07:34 PM »

I caught a 24" northern a couple years back, and when I got him in, there was a tail sticking out of his mouth. I cleaned the 24" pike and measured the other half digested pike at 10"!

calvin21 · « **Reply #7 on:** Mar 07, 2007, 08:10 PM »

Quote from: hardysf on Mar 07, 2007, 01:32 PM

Just 4 days ago cleaned a 33 inch pike. Had 4 bluegill, two chubs, a shiner, and a 4/0 Gamagastu hook in its stomach. Still wanted our 8 inch pike shiner on the tipup too.

talk about an iron stomach. most i ever found in a northerns stomach was a crawdad and a bluegill.

John_BZ · « **Reply #8 on:** Mar 07, 2007, 08:35 PM »

oly wah

jamesdegitz · « **Reply #9 on:** Mar 08, 2007, 04:59 PM »

This was not while ice fishing, but while open water fishing. Me and my dad were fishing a bass tourney when we saw a pike floating belly up......When we got up to it, there was a 12" redear sticking out of it's mouth! The stupid pike had litterally bitten off more than he could chew and choked. They truly are water wolves.

seaweed01 · « **Reply #10 on:** Mar 08, 2007, 08:03 PM »

Iv'e caught perch many times that have rubber worms or pieces of thein their stomach. So
I guess it is not a good idea to throw the worms or pieces of them in the water. I guess they
will eat anything that looks edible.

Neptune · « **Reply #11 on:** Mar 14, 2007, 12:02 PM »

Last Summer my wife caught an 18" Mackinaw that had a tail sticking out of its mouth. Its meal prior to the lure it tried to consume was a 14" Pike minnow....

Good Fishing

Water Wolf · « **Reply #12 on:** Mar 14, 2007, 06:31 PM »

A few years ago while shore fishing I lost a 4" rubber shad to a pike.
Two hours later my partern caught a pike the same size as I lost, they kept it and found my rubber shad in it's stomach.
I put it back on and caught a few more fish.

A buddy of mine said that he saw 2 pike the same length thrashing around in the shallows where he was shore fishing.
He went to check out the action and found that one pike's head was completely in the other fish's mouth, the recurved teeth of the first pike prevented the second pike from backing out.
He tried to reach them from shore but could not, they were both found dead later that day.

WW

Luffy · « **Reply #13 on:** Mar 30, 2007, 01:34 PM »

never found anything bizarre in them... usually just small perch, sunfish, etc... found a small frog once..

putback · « **Reply #14 on:** Mar 30, 2007, 03:20 PM »

Back to the days of pull tabs on beer cans, had a bass with one in its gut, And a 6/8 inch garder snake in a pike once, must have just happened, snake fair shape considering.

erikphillips · « **Reply #15 on:** Jan 30, 2008, 02:22 PM »

one of the pike books that i read said that they will try to eat anything that they can get into their mouths. even said that farmers in germany have watched livestock run backwards from rivers with a pike hanging from its nose...that would be something to see.

panfishman13 · « **Reply #16 on:** Jan 31, 2008, 12:05 AM »

gutted a 4.25lb rainbow with seven hooks in it's gut, also once caught a bass that was attached to a stringer, once caught a catfish with a rifle slug in it's stomach, and another rainbow with it's gut full to bursting with snails.

big-brother · « **Reply #17 on:** Jan 31, 2008, 08:12 PM »

WPT · « **Reply #18 on:** Jan 31, 2008, 08:52 PM »

That's crazy. I've heard of pike eating waterfowl, but I figured it would be a bigger pike eating a smaller duck. They will eat anything...

Smeltecca · « **Reply #19 on:** Feb 05, 2008, 01:52 PM »

Awesome pic - Pike are just mean

Hard_H2O · « **Reply #20 on:** Feb 05, 2008, 02:21 PM »

Is that some form of a turducen?

A pikduc?

jayman64 · « **Reply #21 on:** Feb 05, 2008, 03:56 PM »

Quote from: Wild-man on Mar 07, 2007, 01:07 PM

well... not so wierd as it is IMPRESSIVE!!
2 yrs. ago we cleaned a 9lb pike that had a legal size (43cm) walleye in his belly!!!
also, about 10 yrs. ago my buddy cleaned a similar sized pike and found a baby duck in it!!!
these weren't MASSIVE fish at all. just super-mental fish!!!!

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pike love to eat baby ducks i have seen it while fishing in the spring

jiminy_fatal · « **Reply #22 on:** Mar 07, 2008, 02:16 PM »

Last year I wnet fishing with a buddy and he caught a huge northern with the biggest stomach on it i've ever seen, (easily a 45-50 incher) and inside the damn fish was a partially decomposing muskrat! Damn grossest thing I've ever seen.

Neptune · « **Reply #23 on:** Mar 08, 2008, 04:21 PM »

Quote from: jiminy_fatal on Mar 07, 2008, 02:16 PM

Last year I wnet fishing with a buddy and he caught a huge northern with the biggest stomach on it i've ever seen, (easily a 45-50 incher) and inside the d**n fish was a partially decomposing muskrat! d**n grossest thing I've ever seen.

I think you mean digested....

That probably stunk pretty good!!!

Water Wolf · « **Reply #24 on:** Mar 12, 2008, 10:57 PM »

Wow a duck and a muskrat is one big meal, I wonder how long they would take to digest? $:-\$

On my last ice fishing trip I caught a pike with a lead head jig and snap swivel in it's stomach.

WW

i c · « **Reply #25 on:** Dec 20, 2008, 10:04 PM »

caught a brown trout in the summer that had two gophers in its stomach

Whitefish Whisperer · « **Reply #26 on:** Apr 06, 2009, 05:31 PM »

last year while i was fishing the open water with my dad when we say a snappin turtle on the surface and it looked like it was trying to eat sumpthing so we went over to check it out when we got there we found about a 30 inch walleye dead on the surface with about a 10 to 12 inch perch tail stickin out of its mouth also my grandpa said he was fishing a river and he said he had a stringer with catfish and bass on it tied to his belt loop and the loop broke and he lost his fish and he said he kept fishin the same pool and he hooked a fish and it was one of the catfish on his stringer and he got all hi fish back a few years ago i caught a 9 inch brook trout with a mouse in it

jimmyclaude · « **Reply #27 on:** Apr 06, 2009, 05:52 PM »

Lots of snails in trout bellies all the time... Match that hatch!

BuschWhacker · « **Reply #28 on:** Apr 07, 2009, 11:33 PM »

Not as good as the duck!! Criminey! Is nothing is safe?? In this pic: Eater was about 5lbs, Eatee about 1-2. Good thing they don't get much bigger, might be a bit scary out there

jimmyclaude · « **Reply #29 on:** Apr 08, 2009, 07:43 AM »

Jimmy Hoffa?

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