Its a fish eat fish world
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I have wanted to get a pic of a brown that has eaten another fish for a while .. Finally got the opportunity last weekend and thought I’d share. I am pretty sure this was a large sculpin, but it was a little hard to tell. Just makes you love throwing streamers even more! Go big or go home. lol 😎 The brown was about 18-19″ the sculpin was about 5″ or so.
Did you at least put it back in the fish’s mouth before letting him swim off?
Lol .. No .. looked like it had been there a long time and he was obviously quite hungry!
You might be suprised, I don’t think he would have choked to death on a 5″ sculpin.
I have a photo somewhere of a 15″ brown with a 10″ brown sticking out of it.
I dunno the way that fish was jammed in there … I doubt it could have eaten much else. It does make me wonder how common it is for this to happen and/or if its part of their natural feeding process, to go after prey that wont quite fit down their throat.
Ok .. I figured if anyone would know a bit about the topic it would be Kelly Galloup. I thought I’d share his reply …
“I get one a week with a tail hanging out it’s face. I don’t think they are stuck, they may come back up alittle during the fight but i think mostly they just have not swallowed them yet. I have seen them in fish that are just sitting near shore so I think it is just a slow process.”
My first thought was just as Mike’s ;D
A few years ago I helped a DNR guy stock some tiny shoal bass, and in the bucket was a little guy (less than an inch) that had died while eating another of the little guys.Nice Corey 😎
On the topic of fish eating fish. Last summer I watched a fish, which when I first saw it, was quite agitated, thrashing its head around and looking like it had something stuck in it’s mouth. I watched as something appeared to be coming out of the fishes gill cover and was gobsmacked when a small eel appeared from the gill plate, and swam away with the fish in hot pursuit.
Dumass me watched this happen two times, before it dawned on me I should get the camera out! ::)
For perspective, that’s about a 3lb fish.
Another time I watched a 2lbish brown for about 5 minutes trying to figure out how to get a big crayfish (crawdaddy?) down the hatch. That’s a lot of protein.
Wow Corey (and Stu), nice images! It makes you wonder how/why that fish ate your streamer with that sculpin hanging out of his mouth.
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