[Ben Dixon]

A mate brought a trout head in to me yesterday from a trout that had been resident in a friends garden lake.  The lake is man made and was stocked a few years back with small trout, this one had obviously found something decent to sustain itself.

Never seen teeth like it, I know the flesh has shrunk back but these are fairly formidable.






Cheers
Ben

[Sandy Nelson]

Awesome

I like fish with teeth , anything going in there wasn't getting back out!

Sandy

[Iain Cameron]

Never seen teeth like it, I know the flesh has shrunk back but these are fairly formidable.

a new species of essox truttius! wouldn't fancy removing a wee hook from that trout

[Mark Zhang]

Do you think he needs the teeth to eat other trout or small fish?  ??? ??? ???

[Rob Brownfield]

That HAS to be a Brook Trout. I believe they are the only trout to have "throat teeth" as can be seen in the second photo.

[Iain Goolager]

Float tube for SALE!

[Ben Dixon]

That HAS to be a Brook Trout.

Sorry mate, it is definitely a brownie. 
Guy dug lined, filled and stocked the lake himself and another few shots of the had I didn't post have some skin still attached which confirms it to me as a brown trout.

Cheers

Ben

[Rob Brownfield]

Sorry mate, it is definitely a brownie. 
Guy dug lined, filled and stocked the lake himself and another few shots of the had I didn't post have some skin still attached which confirms it to me as a brown trout.

Any chance of a sample for the Labs?

Was this fish from down south?

[Loxiafan]

That HAS to be a Brook Trout. I believe they are the only trout to have "throat teeth" as can be seen in the second photo.

Not so dude. I caught a 'Brown' Trout out of the Ae ( Annan Trib) that was 4 lbs and it had teeth like that eg. in rows backward pointing and down the mouth like a shark. The consensus was this was a Sea going Brownie, a Bull Trout. In  those days (correction 1984 - I'm even older than I think  ) Brown and Sea Trout were regarded as separate species.

My specimen did not have quite so pronounced front teeth as the one above.

Anyone called Jeremy Wade yet  

L

[Ben Dixon]

Any chance of a sample for the Labs?

Was this fish from down south?

No, local garden "pond" as stated above it has only ever contained brown trout.  Sample not required!

Head now in bin, it was stinking.

Cheers

Ben

[Rob Brownfield]

No, local garden "pond" as stated above it has only ever contained brown trout. 

Would not be the first time a consignment of Brown trout from a fish farm has turned up containing one or two "strays" in the form of African Tiger Fish!

[Sandy Nelson]

More dissappearing posts

Weird

[Mike Barrio]

I sometimes lose a post if I preview it Sandy, could this be what's happening? I'm getting old and a bit slow and what I've done sometimes is viewed the preview and then ( since my brain thinks I'm reading the post ) clicked on whatever link to continue without having gone back down the page to click the "Post" button

But, if I do this, I can hit "back" in my browser and it will take me back to the message form with all my text in it ready to post

Cheers
Mike

[Sandy Nelson]

I sometimes lose a post if I preview it Sandy, could this be what's happening? I'm getting old and a bit slow and what I've done sometimes is viewed the preview and then ( since my brain thinks I'm reading the post ) clicked on whatever link to continue without having gone back down the page to click the "Post" button

But, if I do this, I can hit "back" in my browser and it will take me back to the message form with all my text in it ready to post

Cheers
Mike

It wasn't my post, i just watched it dissappear while reading them I suppose Rob might have deleted it himself

Sandy

[Rob Brownfield]

I did delete my post as I felt it might be taken the wrong way since Ben was using lots of !!! 

[Ben Dixon]

I did delete my post as I felt it might be taken the wrong way since Ben was using lots of !!! 

Hardly, one in the whole thread, Rob 

But, if you felt your reply needed deleting then it probably did 

Cheers

Ben

[Jim Eddie]

That's an awesome set of gnashers 

 

Jim

[Allan Liddle]

Just underlines the fact our browns are predators, noted some serious teeth on s lot of trouts over the years and not uncommon to get a wee bit of damage getting my DHE's back 
Paul P agrees that we lose a few Rod Benders as a result of leader under tension running over the teeth, but even so those are some serious gnashers as Jim says.  Bet it would have made an awsome pic if caught when still alive n kicking. 

[Noel Kelly]

Lost a serious fish last week in a strange fashion. It steamed straight across river stripping line off the reel and gone. I wasn't putting any pressure on it just the reel drag which is just enough to prevent overrun. Fly gone and end of tippet like it was cut with a scissors. No wind knots. Had to be teeth, can't think what else it could be. Bugger....

[Allan Liddle]

Yup teeth would be the culprit for me on that one Noel.