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bluebull300 · Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2006 8:26 pm Post subject: Strange?????

Yesterday I caught a few reds and when I cleaned them, I just wanted to see what they had been feeding on. I checked one and I found a small crab. No surprise there...Then I checked another and a big surprise. I found three jigheads and plastics. One was a red killer, the other a cocaho minnow and the other ???.

I was wondering if anyone has ever seen this before. I have caught fish with hooks in their mouth, but nothing like this before.
One other thing is that none of the lures had any line on them. I know the line will breakat the knot, but all three?

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Johnny French · Flour Bluffian in Training Joined: 21 Apr 2005 Posts: 407

Maybe the lures weren't tied on when the red ate 'em.

rabbit · Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2006 5:26 am Post subject:

I would imagin that the line would desolve faster than the rest of the lure. Very Happy

Or the people tying the knots have a lot to be desired Laughing

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Stump · Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2006 6:32 am Post subject:

Thanks for sharing the pictures. I have found plastic baits in Redfish I've opened up, but no line attached. Maybe the stomach acid affects the line, prior to the plastic itself??

The Troutman · Mud Minnow Joined: 23 Jun 2005 Posts: 32

I've found all kinds of stuff in their stomachs including rubber grommets, lures, bottle caps, etc. These dudes can stomach just about anything!

Later,

The Troutman
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Mike S · Guest

That just go to show you redfish will eat just about anything. Not to top your story but a couple of years ago I had a client catch a redfish that
was 30" long (if I remember correctly). We noticed it was very fat. Back at Marrker 37 Marina Roger Varr cleaned our fish and to everyone's amazement the fish had a piece of reinforced raidator (rubber) hose in it's stomach. The piece of hose was 2" dia. and a little over 8" long.
I think Roger took the hose home, painted eyes and put some hooks on it.
LOL.

tyler · Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2006 7:36 am Post subject:

CCKAYAKER · Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2006 12:37 pm Post subject:

There was an article published in Redfish Nation magazine a few months back where a lady had done a survey on the contents of Redfish stomachs and to her amazement they had reports and pics of everything from small toy soccerball to a field mouse. She summed it up by saying " let's me just say this, If redfish where 100 lbs heavier and grew to 15 - 20 ft I would NOT be swiiming where redfish live." The study was done primarily in Tx and La.

rabbit · Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2006 12:48 pm Post subject:

FlakMan · Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2006 1:06 pm Post subject: I found one of these in a 26" Red

Hook was gone - just the lure remained in the stomach:

Strawberry White color. Anyone loose a bait like this to a fish near the Mansfield Jetties?
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rabbit · Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2006 1:13 pm Post subject:

Is that a corky devil or and imitation?
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FlakMan · Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2006 1:32 pm Post subject: Corkie Devil

Yep is was an original B & L Lure Corkie Devil I found in that red!
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bluebull300 · Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2006 9:41 pm Post subject:

Its crazy what a red will eat. I posted this on other sites and there were some crazy thing people have found in reds Cool

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Tiderunner · Guest

Last fall I found three soft plastics in a red's stomach. A cocahoe, an assasin and a boone tout. No jigheads. They were in various stages of disenegration but looked as if they had been in it's stomach for a long time.

fish_junkie515 · Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2006 2:44 pm Post subject:

It is amazing they still taste so well with the junk we find in em..
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