more weird stuff in a fishes belly

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Had a good day.caught and released 20 or so bass.1 was not going to make it so on ice he went.got home set to filleting...there they were.pretty weird.found a duckling in a pike once...this ones up there.thanks don.
Ticks were pretty bad.sprayed down were ok but killed two crawling on the bait bucket.be carefull everyone.lyme is no joke.

Wow! The turtle shells were cracked inside a largemouth? Neat find!

Yea the ticks are bad this year. My 17 yo daughter was just diagnosed with Lyme Disease. She went through the 30 day meds, and still was symptomatic so they just put her on another 3 weeks of meds. Rich/TheFishMan also got bit by a tick, and is feeling the effects. It's just so hard to stay away from ticks that are the size of a fleck of black pepper. Good luck all.

Nice work

Nice bunch of fillets!

Nice little trip Keith. After you fillet the fish you can make turtle soup.

Way to go Keith! Bizzare on the turtles!!!

More and more weird fish belly shenagins...found these in a very small brookie...I would never have kept ...aparently escargot is not a full meal.suprised I didnt find a crescent...or a pastry

Found 1/4"X1" chunks of wood in 2 trout ~16" caught last year.....weird.

WTG Keith, A couple weeks ago I saw a gator chomping on about a 5lb turtle trying to crack it's shell for dinner. crazy ...nice mess of fillets

That is weird! Was that in Candlewood or Gardner?

Remains of some sort of lure? Rapala still makes some of their baits out of balsa.

Nope.....just driftwood. It looked old and waterlogged. They probably see it suspended just off the bottom somewhat neutrally buoyant and they hit it thinking its fish, bug, hatchery pellet, etc.... These were dumb hatchery fish.

Some snail trivia.
Snails are a common trout food. Any fish that eats crustaceans will eat snails especially bluegills and yellow perch.
When I reclaimed my pond there were no fish or minnows left in it but the areas with springs and the section that had Ball Pond Brook running through it were loaded with an aquatic snail plus some other invertebrates. I flooded the pond in October 1991 and immediately stocked 50 small rainbows and 50 small brookies. I had no idea what they would have to eat but during the ice fishing season I caught a few and they looked very healthy.
At ice-out I went out with the fly rod and caught a half dozen and kept one brookie and one rainbow for dinner. They were fat and healthy and their stomachs were filled full of tiny snails. Without any predators to eat the snail larvae the snail population exploded over the winter and the trout fed almost exclusively on them getting very fat. The calcium in the snail shell gave both species a bright orange flesh and made them very tasty.
If I was building a pond that could support trout I would immediately, upon filling it up, stocked snails, scuds, sow bugs, a low growing weed like Elodea and super charge the water with some manure/hay combo. I would let them be the only food in the pond for a year and then the second year add fathead minnows which are small and will not be a predator of the larger zoo planktons or invertebrate larvae but stay shallow, feeds on a lot of phyto planktons and provides a meat meal for the trout. Now the trout have a variety of foods to eat and will thrive.
Though I have never seen a snail fly pattern there is a snail "hatch" of sorts. At times, snails will somehow "inflate" themselves and float to the surface and disperse themselves in the surface film. This may be a way to survive flooding where being in deep water is no good for them and this allows them to be wind blown into shallow shore areas of their preference. I am sure that at times like this they are an easy meal for all kinds of fish species.

Well we have all been edified.thankyou buck.my college major was freshwater biology and I minored in becoming a licensed electrician (summers /holidays etc.) My school was murray state.ky lake was our prime study.trout were not on the menu...haha.I did see a lot of prey species feeding on snails and as you stated it was seasonal.never knew brookies would eat them.makes complete sense on a nutritional level.aparently and inadvertenly I started a thread for all of us who like to eat our catch.wise management is sometimes preferable to blind catch and release.cant do much damage keeping a couple of bull gills or a few crappie.

So now I am supposed to apologize because I made an observation about my pond and how it evolved? This is an open forum website so deal with it.
If you don't like my style of writing put me on ignore.

Very informative all!! Years ago when smoking was more common in society, the board of fish and game issued an advisory to fisherman not to throw their cigarette butts in the water as trout were found to be ingesting them and this was believed to block their digestive tract. Filters were made from spun something or other and wouldn't biodegrade and filtered cigarettes were becoming very popular.

Not sure what happened good but good posts.........

Buck.you misunderstood.I found your observations insightful and useful.my apologies.

Phewwww....I didn't read anything negative either. I thought maybe Conrad posted a stinker, then deleted it after embarrassing his family again.

Conrad...does he have a penchant for inadvertent "faux paus" as well...? Ill stick to morse code from here on.what a buzzkill on a accidentall albeit weird thread, My bad..ill probably find a snake in a belly before years end...

Sorry for the mistake on my part, I thought you were offended by my post which was only intended to back up your pictures and info. I could have handled it much better, thanks for clarifying it.

I make a point of looking for all your posts first.always educational.

In the first picture posted of the stomach contents those are two freshly hatched Painted Turtles, Chrysemys picta picta. They don't stand much of a chance of survival when youg as everything eats them including fish, birds and frogs.