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07-28-2010, 05:23 PM
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Is it May yet?
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Gloucester Ma
Posts: 1,238
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Stomach Contents....
I am hearing this second-hand but from a reliable source. If there are pics out there I will try to track them down. Apparently, one of the old Italian guys who chunks herring between some of the wharfs in our local harbor hooked and landed a large striper a few days ago and when checking the stomach contents was quite surprised to find........ a RAT 
Now I have heard of and actually fished with small white mice for fresh water bass but a striper slurping down a rodent? If I ever find that, the whole fish would end up in the dumpster.
Anyone ever heard of such a thing? Is there a new lure waiting to be made, one with a long tail?  |
"Twitch....Twitch....Twitch....WHAM!"
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07-28-2010, 09:25 PM
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Jiggin' Leper Lawyer
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: 61° 30′ 0″ N, 23° 46′ 0″ E
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There aren't a lot of things that a striper won't eat. We found a small land bird in the stomach of one, once.
No reason I can see why one wouldn't eat a swimming rat.
Fish can't get, or transmit, rabies and hanta virus. I wouldn't worry about finding a rat in one.
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Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools, because they have to say something.
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07-28-2010, 09:40 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Holyoke, Ma
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The things I have seen largemouth go after there is no doubt in my mind that a striper would eat a rat. Better patten that lures rights quick!
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07-28-2010, 09:57 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Rhode Island
Posts: 3,650
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That's one for the back door of a poacher-friendly restaurant.
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07-29-2010, 02:20 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2002
Posts: 22,805
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a slow swimming easy target....
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07-29-2010, 05:09 AM
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Respect your elvers
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: franklin ma
Posts: 3,368
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I caught one last week with a half dozen of NIB's Pro-V's inside it...probably a Jersey fish.
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It's not the bait
At the end of your line
It's the fishing hole
Where all the fish is blind
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07-29-2010, 05:48 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Franklin Ma
Posts: 402
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Quote:
Originally Posted by spinncognito
Is there a new lure waiting to be made, one with a long tail? |
Check this out..
On The Water - Lure of the Month |
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07-29-2010, 06:18 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2001
Posts: 7,649
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Princess Fiona: Mmmm... This is good... mmm... this is really good... what is it?
Shrek: A weed rat, cooked rotisserie style!
Princess Fiona: No kidding... Oh, this is delicious!
Shrek: Well, they're also great in stews - now I don't mean to brag, but I make a MEAN weedrat stew!
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07-29-2010, 07:09 AM
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Super Moderator
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Georgetown MA
Posts: 18,203
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Its meat...thats all they care about.
Largemouth will wait under trees for baby birds to fall in.....slam...yum.
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"If you're arguing with an idiot, make sure he isn't doing the same thing."
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07-29-2010, 10:36 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Hyde Park, MA
Posts: 4,152
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It's food, plain and simple.
They don't care what kind, just that it's the kind that they can catch and eat!
I'd love to see that feeding event. Kind of like a mini version of "air-shark"!
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07-29-2010, 11:02 AM
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Surfcaster
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Connecticut
Posts: 834
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I love throwing mouse fly patterns for brown trout at night. Now I gotta tie up some rat patterns for stripers.
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07-29-2010, 08:28 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: North Shore
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Maybe the striper just thought it was a big Dalbergh Diver with an extra long tail ...  |
"It was the blackest night! There was no moon in sight! (You know the stars ain't shinnin cause the sky's too tight) "
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07-29-2010, 11:22 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Holyoke, Ma
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or a whopper plopper
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