Quote Originally Posted by Fish on Line View Post
We did take Bros best friend sat morning for a few hours and fished till noon. we only managed 10 fish and they were all bigger in size. The lack of things in the stomachs of what we catch, looks like they are starved. A few Crappie have partly digested shad but bream are always empty. what we find in Cats is what we give them. one time there were Tiny mussel shells in a shell cracker on the bed..... Some time even the gut line is empty. It is no wonder they hit it so hard they break the Pole, They are starving.
Another reminder of how animals in nature have to work so much harder for their next meal. Not a lot of fat on many wild caught animals. One year my daughter put a small piece of raw chicken on a hook and left it sitting in a commercial crawfish lake. Came back to find a mud cat hooked. I've never seen one with a belly that big...had to be at least 1/3 of his body weight. He had stuffed on crawfish...then got greedy with the chicken and ended up back in the canal. lol

House pets are spoiled and don't even know it...at least our two cats are. I think most fisherman will be glad to offer up the next meal for those fish though. lol