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Post by featherduster on Apr 24, 2022 10:33:48 GMT -5
This weekend I ran some BULLHEAD floats in the pond with little success however I did catch a bass that weighed about 3 pounds however he swallowed the hook so I kept him.
While I was cleaning him I noticed something sticking out of his butt it was the shank of a gold colored large offset hook like you would use for a soft plastic bait rig.
The very tip was dissolved however it was still stuck in the vent tube.
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Post by featherduster on Apr 24, 2022 10:37:17 GMT -5
This looks painful.  |
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Post by treetop on Apr 24, 2022 11:38:07 GMT -5
This looks painful. Probably the same amount of pain you will have the next morning after eating a ghost pepper Hard to believe it lived with that going through it but I guess they probably are use to it with bones and stuff they eat from other fish crawfish snails and the likes |
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Post by marshallco on Apr 24, 2022 22:23:01 GMT -5
I always heard/thought that hooks or any metal dissolved in a fishes mouth. Or I guess their butt for that matter. Do ever remember hooking him? How long ago?
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Post by esshup on Apr 24, 2022 22:58:59 GMT -5
A hook will dissolve a wee bit faster in a fish, but if hooked in the mouth what will happen more often than not is the fish flesh pulls away from the hook area and the bigger hole results in the hook falling our or getting spit out. I've seem bass that have died with a blocked intestine from swallowing a rubber worm, so don't toss old plastic baits in the water.
Put a hook in a container of water, add enough salt to make a 1/2% salt solution (same as fish blood) and see how long it takes the hook to dissolve.
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Post by featherduster on Apr 25, 2022 5:13:59 GMT -5
I always heard/thought that hooks or any metal dissolved in a fishes mouth. Or I guess their butt for that matter. Do ever remember hooking him? How long ago? I don't fish the pond with artificial baits but I have a young and inspiring bass fisherman that does. |
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Post by genesis273 on Apr 25, 2022 20:03:31 GMT -5
Wow, that fish had been in some misery.
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Post by duff on Apr 30, 2022 14:03:47 GMT -5
This looks painful. Probably the same amount of pain you will have the next morning after eating a ghost pepper Hard to believe it lived with that going through it but I guess they probably are use to it with bones and stuff they eat from other fish crawfish snails and the likes When I was a kid I kept an aquarium of green sunfish. They would eat everything. When junebug season was in full force I would feed them those. They would crap out the entire shell. |
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