stripers with teeth...
 

sooo today was a weird day. for one, there were no stroms and i could fish. two,i caught fish. three, i caught a keeper (barely more like a glorified schooly but i'll take it. (or let it go whatever)).and four i caught a striper with fangs..

any one else ever catch one of these? the color was beautiful. like no other striper i had ever seen. just amazing contrast between the black and white. and it was actually white. not that off yellowish white. amazingly dark back. probably the darkest darks i have ever seen too.

sooo anyway i lip the thing.. and no sooner do i do that, then do i regret it. it gave the typical, clamp shut for a second. and boy did it hurt. the bottom of my thumb was in agony. the top.. well that didn't feel pleasant either. so i call my buddy over. "hey man you gotta feel this things upper lip". he was pretty hesitant not believing me (it was kinda dark) he figured maybe it just had rougher than average lips. so finally i convince him to take a poke. never have i seen his finger come out of a fishes mouth so quick. you would swear he just stuck it in the mouth of a blue. it was only about a 22inch fish. but it had probably a 1/5 inch long ""fangs"" on its upper lip. curved back (like a boas teeth). two rows deep. about 4 across. bottom lip was pretty pointy as well. got a few marks to prove it. i wish we snapped a pic. i've seen some pretty rough lips on stripers. but never anything like this. it had full on teeth. :huh:

anyway thats my story... bored to death yet?

lol. tight lines fellas.

I've caught, well, a few thousand bass, and have never heard of anything like this. U sure it was'nt a Weakfish?????

I agree with DaveS... sounds like a weakfish... no bass has fangs, at least that I have ever seen

Same here. Maybe you caught a Nile Perch that took that infamous left turn at Alberqueque. :hihi:

It was definitely a striper. I didn't believe him when he said it had teeth but I put my fingers in its mouth and it had teeth. Don't know about fangs but it had teeth.

I believe you guys ...just wished you had pics to prove it.Did you get cut from the choppers or just crunched ? I'm sure there's some striper farms playing with the gene pool somewhere .This may be a straggler if it was as you said cleaner in color and toothy.

well that's because you didn't poke around in there for very long.. :bl: bottom lip was toothy, the upper lip more so. cept they were shaped like fangs. as i said curved backwards. long and thin. fangs is the only way i can describe them compared to the rest of the teeth in those chompers.

and adam, i wish we got pics too. hell i wish we could have held on to it. but a schooly is a schooly.. and he got the schooly treatment. right after i tossed him back we started kickin ourselves for not getting pics.

We're you fishing behind the power plant in plymouth? :laughs:

I've never heard of fanged stripers either. Were they like blue fish teeth?

oh and as for the weakfish theory.. that almost dead on what the mouth felt like. (had to look up some pics) cept instead of only one row of fangs it was two rows deep and four across. how ever the rest of this fish was dead on striper. there was no mistaken it. in fact..it was probably the most striped striper i have even seen. other than the teeth it was like the poster child of striper. definitely a bass. i will put everything in my life on that fact. i just wish we had pics.

not really.. it was more like modified striper "teeth". take the sand paper "teeth" and raise all of the them up to at least triple there normal height. and then make them incredibly sharp and pointy. then right in the middle of the upper lip. imagine four row across and two rows deep. of the same type of tooth but much larger and curved back. (like in a weakfish)

now that i think about it.. it might have looked more like number 10. :tooth:

http://www.safari-guide.co.uk/animal..._tigerfish.php

tigerfish maybe? That would be pretty strange

nope. i am 1000% certain it was a striper. why it had teeth i have no idea. but its patterns(other than the richer color), it shape/size and proportions all exactly the same as the hundreds of other bass i've caught. if it had differed in any other way..wouldn't have put my thumb in there. the only noticeable difference was how dark the blacks were. and i just thought "wow that's beautiful lookin fish".

once in a life time freak... and we dont have the camera.. figures.

drac-strip-ula??
Did you catch it after dark?
Under a full moon?

We'll be seeing this story being "explored" on Monsterquest from the History Channel.