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| Check out this photo. I was fishing in Canada a few years back and found these two pike alive like this. We pulled them apart and they both swam off. Has anyone ever seen this before? Attachments ----------------  hungry_pike.jpg (87KB - 3958 downloads) 2pike.jpg (87KB - 164 downloads) | |||
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Cool photo. How in the heck were you able to pull the two apart without hurting either fish and for them both to swim off? I'd think if you tried to pull the one fish out of the other fishes mouth, by removing it from the mouth in the opposite direction, going against the grain of the gill rakers and the teeth wouldn't allow you to pull it back out...at least not easily and without injury to the fish. And pulling it through the gill to go with the grain of the gill rakers and teeth...would surely destroy that other fishes gill flaps? This is all just out of curiousity. Guess I had to be there to see it.  Pretty amazing nonetheless. Nice work! | |||
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Posts: 22 Location: Albuquerque | The same thing can happen with Tiger Muskies. Here is a photo and article that I found one time about a similiar occurence. What was "the fish of a thousand casts" thinking when it tried to eat one of its own kind - and size? Clearly, the mugging that happened at Quincy Reservoir on April 24 was a heroic case of one's eyes being too large for one's stomach. The fracas happened not far from Quincy's dam on a Sunday morning, when one large tiger muskie tried to eat another large tiger muskie headfirst. The snaggle-toothed predators ended up something like buck deer with locked antlers. It was strange behavior for a fish anglers know as sullen and reluctant to open its mouth. Maybe they bore some grudge against each other. We will never know. There were no witnesses to the attack. Ranger Diane Donovan found the combatants when she was patrolling the Aurora Parks reservoir's shoreline. Two anglers called her attention to something unusual they had spied floating on the surface, and she waded in to check it out. "It looked like one tried to eat the other and it came out of his gill," Donovan said. "The big one was 41 inches long, and that was the one that tried to eat the small one that was 39 inches long. They were both quite heavy." The tiger muskies were floating in 1 foot of water just off the bank. Apparently, Donovan found them only minutes after they succumbed. "They looked very fresh," she said. "There was nothing ripe about them. I've never seen anything like it, except with smaller fish. It was quite amazing." The pair might be united forever. Aurora Parks is considering giving some taxidermist the daunting task of mounting the tangle. Doubtless, the display will make a strong statement about risk-taking. Attachments ---------------- 431984288_e.jpg (29KB - 173 downloads) | ||
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