Northwest Fishing Reports

About a month ago I fished Rufus for the first time and went home with my limit of two. One of the fish I cleaned had a belly that was completely filled with gravel, and not all small gravel, some was decent sized. I will attach a picture. It got me thinking, what is the weirdest thing you guys have ever found in the stomach of a fish. Mine would have to be the gravel, but I have also found power bait/ power eggs in many bellies.

Pine Needles...

When I was at Rufus, a fish spit out a whole prawn (like one you would use for steelhead) and was full with pellet food and when I cleaned it he had a 1/0 hook in his stomach.

Then the first time I went to Rufus me and my cosuin were sitting about 10' a part and caught the same hungry trip.


These arnt the wierdest things, but you said Rufus and that got my wheels turning. I will have to get back to you on this one

I found a plastic ring(like a kids toy)in a rainbow last year. Oh,and a map of Berlin:-k odd fish...

Cigarette Butts:-&

Crushed Pepsi can in a Pacific cod stomach ( about a 16# cod) Chignik AK.

Fishinislife, were you fishing golf course ponds again [-x j/k.

fishnislife wrote:Golf ball.



fishnislife

Up at Erie Lake, near Anacortes, my buddy and I were catching trout whose bellies felt like beanbags. We solved the mystery while cleaning the fish later that day. They had gorged themselves on snails.

fishnislife wrote:Golf ball.
fishnislife

Do you mind sharing the location? I have a new lure that I've been wanting to try.

its not really the stomach but i found two perch colored rapalas in a bass's mouth last summer.

P.S i was using a plastic lizard.

Fisherman_max wrote:its not really the stomach but i found two perch colored rapalas in a bass's mouth last summer.

P.S i was using a plastic lizard.

Can I have them back?

haha they are both in a wicked tree out on the lake........lets just say i C&R'ed a few pine trees that day

dilbert wrote:

fishnislife wrote:Golf ball.
fishnislife

Do you mind sharing the location? I have a new lure that I've been wanting to try.

That's funny dilbert.

I was fishing golf courses yes. And I believe the bass we were catching just assumed the golf balls were food. We did not eat them or cut them open, but a couple we pulled up were bloated and you could feel the golf balls in their stomach. In the stomachs of trout I have found plenty of hooks and line, and rocks.




fishnislife

I found 5 salamanders in an alpine lake trout once, that was a little odd. Tried fishing with salamanders at the same lake the next year and didn't have any luck. I could see a fish gulping down 1 or 2, but 5 was a bit much I thought.

23 shiner perch in a stilly river sturegon's gut, and the dam thing was still eatin

i also found a bunch of periwinkles in a east fork lewis river trout. they were whole shell and all!