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10-28-2011, 07:37 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Reading Mass/Newburyport/merrimack river
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More Ice fishing talk : wounded brown trout
Last year while fishing lake massabesic in New hampshire I caught this 17" brown trout... as you can see, it took a hit from a large predator... after it happend I posted the picture on another site...I got all kinds of wild suggestion on what the damage was from..every thing from propeller and osprey ( as you can see the wounds are very fresh) to otter..seeing as there was 18" of ice at the time.. it kind of ruled out propellers and osprey..
personaly, I think a large Pike.. as massabesic has been an eploratory stocking lake for New hampshire, and at one time or another has been stocked with every species... otter is a possibility, but I find it hard to believe ANYTHING could escape the vise like grip of a fish eating machine like an otter... not that dont travel, this fish was taken in 20' of water at the edge of the drop off..kind of the same principle we would fish for tuna or cod...
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A good run is better than a bad stand!
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10-28-2011, 08:06 AM
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Scarecrow
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Ouch! Talk about leaving a mark.  |
.......Elvis Lives
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10-28-2011, 08:59 AM
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It wouldn't have escaped an otter. I say a pike that had eyes bigger than his stomach.
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10-28-2011, 09:20 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by WESTPORTMAFIA
It wouldn't have escaped an otter. I say a pike that had eyes bigger than his stomach.
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I aggree! I trapped for 30 years.. 15 years of it fedral damage control officer... I caught lots of otter... more than once .. I barely got away.. and only with the help of a well placed 22 mag holow point.. |
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10-28-2011, 09:40 AM
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Pike is my guess. I brought in largemouth on a local pond around 15 inches and behind it was a very big pike checking out the struggling fish. It didn't hit it but I wouldn't have been too surprised if it did. Maybe it even hit it as you were bringing it in. Feel anything like that?
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10-28-2011, 10:33 AM
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DDG-51
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Quote:
Originally Posted by JoeBass
Maybe it even hit it as you were bringing it in. Feel anything like that?
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That's my guess, were there bite marks on both sides? |
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10-28-2011, 10:51 AM
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Seals... they'ze everywhere!
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10-28-2011, 10:52 AM
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yes matching set of bite marks.. nope wasn't hit on the way in... My guess is, that the "attacker" was laying along the edge of the drop in the weed line as the water went from 6' to 20 in a 10' span.. a very steep drop that has yielded many a brown trout and a host of other fish...
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10-28-2011, 11:06 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2002
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nice fish joe
what was the bait?
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10-28-2011, 11:13 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Raven
nice fish joe
what was the bait?
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3" pond shiner fished 2' above the bottom.. |
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10-28-2011, 01:58 PM
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Retired Surfer
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Beautiful fish though isn't it.
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Swimmer a.k.a. YO YO MA
Serial Mailbox Killer/Seal Fisherman
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10-28-2011, 02:48 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Swimmer
Beautiful fish though isn't it.
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they are.. to me.. the holy grail.. I love catching Browns... i released it hopefully being winter it might have a better chance of surviving... I've caught them there as big as 7 lbs.. talk about beautifull... |
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10-28-2011, 03:41 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Rockfish9
they are.. to me.. the holy grail.. I love catching Browns... i released it hopefully being winter it might have a better chance of surviving... I've caught them there as big as 7 lbs.. talk about beautifull...
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yeah i concur ...they are special |
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