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October 27, 2009
Cermele: Fish Cannibalism and Half A Great White
I clearly remember my first taste of cannibalism in the fish world. I was maybe 7 and reeling in a small bluefish when all of a sudden a bluefish five times the size of the one on my hook pounced on my catch and severed my line. This happens all the time. Big pike eat little pike. Giant brown trout eat little browns. So how big is a great white shark that cuts a 10-foot great white in half in two bites?
Apparently about 20-feet long. Here's a bit of the story from the New York Daily News:
Swimmers were warned that a "monster shark" was prowling off a popular Australian beach, one that nearly bit a 10-foot great white shark in half last week...
Based on the bite marks, experts say the larger shark must be twice its victim's size...
The smaller - relatively speaking - great white was hooked on a baited drum line when it was attacked, and was still alive when it was hauled onto a boat off north Stradbroke Island in Queensland.
In reality, a 20-footer isn't abnormally large for an adult white, but it's impressive none the less. I put a lot of stock in baby bass imitations and rainbow trout-colored stickbaits for bigger trout, but I've never thought of using a shark for a shark. If we're talking flyfishing, it would take a hell of a lot of bucktail to tie up that imitation.
Do you have a good tale of fish cannibalism? Ever lose an average fish to its granddaddy? Did grandaddy make it to the net? - JC
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Comments (33)
The closest I've got is the classic "bass eats hooked bluegill". Done that one on more than one occasion. The one time it would have meant a truly significant bass the old girl spit the gill before I could land it.
I went flyfishing for cuts on the Flathead River outside of Glacier NP a few years back. I was really hoping a nice bull would slam one of the little cutties, but no such luck. And no, I did not try to have it happen, but had read about it enough that I thought it would be cool if it did.
Looks like a picture from the Democratic Senate on Medical Insurance!
My dad and I were fishing in the old farm pond out in the middle of no where. We were in a canoe at the back of the pond, it was bout 3 feet deep with bushes and all manor of cover growing out of the water. We were both using devil horses for bait, anyway dad hooked a bass about 10 oz. While reeling it in we saw a V form on top of the water and it was heading straight for dad's fish. So dad started reeling in slower and told me to watch his bait. All of the sudden his lure and fish exploded out of the water, when the lure and the smaller bass hit the water again they disappeared and dad's pole doubled over. Dad reeled them in and there was about a 9 lbs. bass that had a 10 oz bass that had a devil horse in it's mouth. It was pretty cool to watch.
The picture lokks fake to me.
I was fishing a bass tournament and waiting in line for the weigh in. The gentleman in front of me had a nice bag of fish, while waiting with bags in the aeration tanks his bag shook violently. We looked inside and a bass about 4 1/2 pounds had grabbed a 2 pounder by the head. We separated them and when the gentleman was weighing in the bigger bass grabbed the smaller one by the head again.
The only time that I have the same species eat or attack the same species is when I hooke a small pike about 14 inches in length. I had a larger pike hit it giving it a nice bite wound. I have however had many dog fish or pike hit blue gills while realing them in.
The only time that I have the same species eat or attack the same species is when I hooke a small pike about 14 inches in length. I had a larger pike hit it giving it a nice bite wound. I have however had many dog fish or pike hit blue gills while realing them in.
HOLY S**T!!!
I have on 2 or 3 occasions been popper fishing and pulling in a small bluegill when big daddy bass came looking for a meal.
I've had kingfish cut my line while fighting other kings, and had a dolphin attack a hooked king once. Also have had sharks eat what I assume were snapper while deep dropping.
My sentiments exactly kdogg! My Dad was cleaning a nice bass and found a 'keeper' bluegill in it's belly, looked like it had just ate it, so he cleaned it too.
Saw a photo once of a striped bass that ate a smaller, but not small enough striped bass. The smaller fish got caught in the larger fish's mouth, killing them both.
My pet catfish tried to eat the other smaller catfish.
One time my sister caught a bluegill in our pond. We cut it open and found a smaller bluegill inside it's stomach. We cut that fish up and yet another bluegill was in it's stomach! I thought it was pretty weird....
One time my sister caught a bluegill in our pond. We cut it open and found a smaller bluegill inside it's stomach. We cut that fish up and yet another bluegill was in it's stomach! I thought it was pretty weird....
i was fishing in northern WI and i hooked a small bluegill and as i was realling it in i saw what looked like at least a three foot long fish follow the bluegill within atleast ten feet of the dock don't know what it was and probable never will
Watch a shark hit. The mouth is open almost 180 degrees. That side to side motion uses the serrated edges of the hundreds of teeth like the world's greatest steak knife. You want fries with that?
I was fishing for stripers in Pine River near Boston when a blue, probably 1 foot, bit the lure. It took a bit to bring it to the side of the boat but when it was 2 feet from the bow it just disappeared (the rod bending more now). Then I brought a 3 foot, 12 lb. blue abourd.
That is the craziest thing I've ever seen. Looks like men aren't the only thing great whites have to worry about.
Ouch! The small great white looks very distressed and I don't blame him!
I took a trip to a trout hatchery for my aqua culture course. While looking in the trout/salmon pond our class saw a 10-15 lbs salmon hit a smaller (3-5 lbs) salmon and proceed to slowly eat it in front of us. The DNR wroker giving the tour said he had never seen that before. Guess they weren't feeding the bigger fish enough....
I love fishin' in our local ponds for bass, and I'm currently being haunted by an 11 lb bass that I named "Larry".I had a little largie on my line and larry nearly killed it, exept I was using a minijig and with no hope of hooking Larry, I rescued the little guy.
Back in the 60's I was fishing in Lady lake Florida with my brother-in-law. He was using a 9 inch purple worm and hooked a small largemouth. Next thing you know a huge bass grabbed the little guy and took out for deep water. The big one eventually got off and the little guy was dead when we reeled him in. A Couple weeks later we caught a 12lb 3 oz largemouth near the same spot on another long plastic worm.
Not my story, but rather my next door neighbours.
He was fishing for Smallmouth Bass in a lake near Sudbury, Ontario. He caught a bass about 1-1.5 pounds. As he was reeling that fish in, it was attacked crosswise by a 5 pound pike. Moments later the pike was across the jaws of a 20 pound musky! He and his father managed to net the fish and he had them mounted exactly the way that they were caught!
I was reeling in a nice sized crappie once and a very big largemouth bass came up and started eating it and i ended up not getting either one. The bass was huge compared to the others i had been catching that day
SON OF A BEEEEEEPPPP???I dont want to go swiming in the ocean no more that done it for me!!!!!!
Had a big trout attack a brookie on my line once. It left teeth marks the entire length of the 10 inch brookie. We finally caught the brown a year later. It is the biggest small stream brown I have ever seen in southwestern wisconsin.
He is the story. Click on photos to make bigger.
http://lenharris.blogspot.com/2009/09/once-in-lifetime.html
that pic is fake there is no blood in the water
Gman...It's been dragged behind the boat for a while. A fish hit that bad will bleed out much quicker than you might think. If I need to bleed a fish for the table, I'll snip just one gill. A 50-pound tuna will pump all its blood out in ten minutes or so.
i was fishing in lake george and my uncle was bringing in about a 14 inch salmon when an 18 pound laker exploded on the surface and gulped down the salmon. When we got it in, the tail was sticking out of the gullet and the fish wasnt even hooked. It was insane
duhn-duhn...duhn-duhn..HOLY-FREAKIN-CRAP!!!!
While salmon fishing in Alaska had a killer whale take a king salmon off of my buddies line. Went right under our boat, was pretty cool.
Del Gue was the first to notice, this is fun with photo-shop I think
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My dad and I were fishing in the old farm pond out in the middle of no where. We were in a canoe at the back of the pond, it was bout 3 feet deep with bushes and all manor of cover growing out of the water. We were both using devil horses for bait, anyway dad hooked a bass about 10 oz. While reeling it in we saw a V form on top of the water and it was heading straight for dad's fish. So dad started reeling in slower and told me to watch his bait. All of the sudden his lure and fish exploded out of the water, when the lure and the smaller bass hit the water again they disappeared and dad's pole doubled over. Dad reeled them in and there was about a 9 lbs. bass that had a 10 oz bass that had a devil horse in it's mouth. It was pretty cool to watch.
I was fishing a bass tournament and waiting in line for the weigh in. The gentleman in front of me had a nice bag of fish, while waiting with bags in the aeration tanks his bag shook violently. We looked inside and a bass about 4 1/2 pounds had grabbed a 2 pounder by the head. We separated them and when the gentleman was weighing in the bigger bass grabbed the smaller one by the head again.
Looks like a picture from the Democratic Senate on Medical Insurance!
I have on 2 or 3 occasions been popper fishing and pulling in a small bluegill when big daddy bass came looking for a meal.
My pet catfish tried to eat the other smaller catfish.
Watch a shark hit. The mouth is open almost 180 degrees. That side to side motion uses the serrated edges of the hundreds of teeth like the world's greatest steak knife. You want fries with that?
I was fishing for stripers in Pine River near Boston when a blue, probably 1 foot, bit the lure. It took a bit to bring it to the side of the boat but when it was 2 feet from the bow it just disappeared (the rod bending more now). Then I brought a 3 foot, 12 lb. blue abourd.
Ouch! The small great white looks very distressed and I don't blame him!
I was reeling in a nice sized crappie once and a very big largemouth bass came up and started eating it and i ended up not getting either one. The bass was huge compared to the others i had been catching that day
The closest I've got is the classic "bass eats hooked bluegill". Done that one on more than one occasion. The one time it would have meant a truly significant bass the old girl spit the gill before I could land it.
I went flyfishing for cuts on the Flathead River outside of Glacier NP a few years back. I was really hoping a nice bull would slam one of the little cutties, but no such luck. And no, I did not try to have it happen, but had read about it enough that I thought it would be cool if it did.
The picture lokks fake to me.
The only time that I have the same species eat or attack the same species is when I hooke a small pike about 14 inches in length. I had a larger pike hit it giving it a nice bite wound. I have however had many dog fish or pike hit blue gills while realing them in.
The only time that I have the same species eat or attack the same species is when I hooke a small pike about 14 inches in length. I had a larger pike hit it giving it a nice bite wound. I have however had many dog fish or pike hit blue gills while realing them in.
HOLY S**T!!!
I've had kingfish cut my line while fighting other kings, and had a dolphin attack a hooked king once. Also have had sharks eat what I assume were snapper while deep dropping.
My sentiments exactly kdogg! My Dad was cleaning a nice bass and found a 'keeper' bluegill in it's belly, looked like it had just ate it, so he cleaned it too.
Saw a photo once of a striped bass that ate a smaller, but not small enough striped bass. The smaller fish got caught in the larger fish's mouth, killing them both.
One time my sister caught a bluegill in our pond. We cut it open and found a smaller bluegill inside it's stomach. We cut that fish up and yet another bluegill was in it's stomach! I thought it was pretty weird....
One time my sister caught a bluegill in our pond. We cut it open and found a smaller bluegill inside it's stomach. We cut that fish up and yet another bluegill was in it's stomach! I thought it was pretty weird....
i was fishing in northern WI and i hooked a small bluegill and as i was realling it in i saw what looked like at least a three foot long fish follow the bluegill within atleast ten feet of the dock don't know what it was and probable never will
That is the craziest thing I've ever seen. Looks like men aren't the only thing great whites have to worry about.
I took a trip to a trout hatchery for my aqua culture course. While looking in the trout/salmon pond our class saw a 10-15 lbs salmon hit a smaller (3-5 lbs) salmon and proceed to slowly eat it in front of us. The DNR wroker giving the tour said he had never seen that before. Guess they weren't feeding the bigger fish enough....
I love fishin' in our local ponds for bass, and I'm currently being haunted by an 11 lb bass that I named "Larry".I had a little largie on my line and larry nearly killed it, exept I was using a minijig and with no hope of hooking Larry, I rescued the little guy.
Back in the 60's I was fishing in Lady lake Florida with my brother-in-law. He was using a 9 inch purple worm and hooked a small largemouth. Next thing you know a huge bass grabbed the little guy and took out for deep water. The big one eventually got off and the little guy was dead when we reeled him in. A Couple weeks later we caught a 12lb 3 oz largemouth near the same spot on another long plastic worm.
Not my story, but rather my next door neighbours.
He was fishing for Smallmouth Bass in a lake near Sudbury, Ontario. He caught a bass about 1-1.5 pounds. As he was reeling that fish in, it was attacked crosswise by a 5 pound pike. Moments later the pike was across the jaws of a 20 pound musky! He and his father managed to net the fish and he had them mounted exactly the way that they were caught!
SON OF A BEEEEEEPPPP???I dont want to go swiming in the ocean no more that done it for me!!!!!!
Had a big trout attack a brookie on my line once. It left teeth marks the entire length of the 10 inch brookie. We finally caught the brown a year later. It is the biggest small stream brown I have ever seen in southwestern wisconsin.
He is the story. Click on photos to make bigger.
http://lenharris.blogspot.com/2009/09/once-in-lifetime.html
that pic is fake there is no blood in the water
Gman...It's been dragged behind the boat for a while. A fish hit that bad will bleed out much quicker than you might think. If I need to bleed a fish for the table, I'll snip just one gill. A 50-pound tuna will pump all its blood out in ten minutes or so.
i was fishing in lake george and my uncle was bringing in about a 14 inch salmon when an 18 pound laker exploded on the surface and gulped down the salmon. When we got it in, the tail was sticking out of the gullet and the fish wasnt even hooked. It was insane
duhn-duhn...duhn-duhn..HOLY-FREAKIN-CRAP!!!!
While salmon fishing in Alaska had a killer whale take a king salmon off of my buddies line. Went right under our boat, was pretty cool.
Del Gue was the first to notice, this is fun with photo-shop I think
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