carpediem - 5/12/2010 2:40 PM

As someone who has kept many predatory South American fish in captivity, I'll tell you that fish will rarely attack their prey from behind. If they do, they will often injure the prey, spit it, and take it back in head first. A fish swallowed head first slides right down, a fish swallowed tail first had better be small enough for the fish to slide down spines and all.[/QUOTE



I know some fish can spit and take things down then head first but I don't know if esox do probably not that often anyway! I do know however I have seen them do it but they reposition it in their mouth, I have seen them do it with sunnies bitten from the side! actually if you go on youtube and look you will see people with crippled panfish and such in front of them and muskies and pike just plain smashing them from every wich angle!