Ever been bitten off by a fish?

DB731 said:
They look like cute little rascals.
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The most impressive trait of the bluefish isn't the teeth but the attitude. The small ones will bite at you as you try to remove the hook. I've seen them draw blood more than once.
 
fishiker said:
The most impressive trait of the bluefish isn't the teeth but the attitude. The small ones will bite at you as you try to remove the hook. I've seen them draw blood more than once.
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They can move their eyes when out of the water.
They know.

Those teeth work like a saw made of razors...
 
If you have fished in the ocean down here in the Durty South and haven't been bitten off multiple times by a wahoo, kingfish, cuda or something sharky, then you are very lucky. Wahoo and kingfish are among the worst. Take that bluefish mouth and put another tooth in the gap between all of his teeth and you have a wahoo, Make them even longer and pointier and you have a kingfish. That is arguably less frustrating than having a big fish like a grouper break you off on rocks or worse, a BIG fish that actually straightens out your hook.
 
I've ben bitten off many times as far as the line goes. The strangest bite off I've had was while fishing Aransas Bay for speckled trout. I use a Mason hard leader about 20-30" long (depending on water depth) below a Mansfield mauler with live shrimp. I don't use a weight at all and use a wire spinner bait trailer hook because they are so light. It lets the shrimp run amuck, if you will. Any way, one day I was catching fish along a submerges oyster bed and saw my mauler just "dip". I waited a while thinking the fish may turn and hit again. Nothing happened, so I reeled the line in. When I lifted the rig out of he water, I was very surprised that I only had the eye of the hook and about 1/4 of the shank left. I didn't see the fish, but suspect it was a big sheepshead. They use their teeth to break open barnacles on pilings, so I guess that soft-ish wire isn't that big of a deal for a large one.
 
jdm61 said:
If you have fished in the ocean down here in the Durty South and haven't been bitten off multiple times by a wahoo, kingfish, cuda or something sharky, then you are very lucky. Wahoo and kingfish are among the worst. Take that bluefish mouth and put another tooth in the gap between all of his teeth and you have a wahoo, Make them even longer and pointier and you have a kingfish. That is arguably less frustrating than having a big fish like a grouper break you off on rocks or worse, a BIG fish that actually straightens out your hook.
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Yes This :thumbup:
 
These guys are cooler than I thought!

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They are so bad that I caught one on the pork rind that tipped a buck tail jig.
The fish never got the hook.
Bit the rind behind the hook and wouldn't let go for the whole fight, being dragged up thru the waves and onto the beach.

I ate him for his mojo.
:D
 
Not with steel leaders of appropriate length. A taxidermist friend had a shelf were they would set all the skipped stones, lures, beer caps etc. that they found in Northern Pike.
 
upnorth said:
Not with steel leaders of appropriate length. A taxidermist friend had a shelf were they would set all the skipped stones, lures, beer caps etc. that they found in Northern Pike.
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I just googled "pike stomach find". Good stuff. :eek:
 
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