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 Dolphin eating trout
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08/03/07 01:39 PM
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lure buddy
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My father just got back from fishing down at Rockport and said that they were catching alot of Trout. He said that the dolphin were waiting around the boat and that when they would release an undersized fish the dolphin would chase them down and eat them. Does this happen all the time? If so then why would they make it so that you can keep them if this was happening?
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Re: Dolphin eating trout
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08/03/07 04:13 PM
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breambuster
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The regulation states, any fish under the minimum size limit must be returned/released back to the water. I've seen them feed heavily on flounders, specks, redfish and red snapper that were caught and released. They feed on several gamefish species and that's part of the aquatic ecosystem, that doesn't give anglers a right to keep an undersize fish just because a dolphin, bird, crab or some other aquatic species is going to eat it. It's no different than releasing a bleeding undersized fish that you know will "belly-up" and leaving it there. It will go back into the food chain. What do you expect?
Last edited by breambuster; 08/03/07 04:15 PM.
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Re: Dolphin eating trout
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08/03/07 05:02 PM
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I am not for keeping undersized fish and never have. I was just asking if this is a regular accurance and was wondering if there is a way to keep it from happening so that the fish can live and reproduce to create more of them instead of the fish being eaten and being left with the same outcome.
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Re: Dolphin eating trout
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08/03/07 05:29 PM
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breambuster
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It's simple...this goes on in all of our habitats throughout the state and world. Predators come where there are large amounts of prey in an area whether it is naturally or by some other means. All you have to do is move away and fish another location...
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Re: Dolphin eating trout
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08/03/07 05:33 PM
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I lost a entire stringer of trout during winter to a dolphin. not paying much attention kept hearing a noise, then all of a sudden i turn around and there is a dolphin plucking my last fish a nice 22incher.
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Re: Dolphin eating trout
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08/03/07 06:25 PM
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Barstow
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Well...according to scientists..they ARe the 2nd smartest animal on the planet right behind humans....They know their way to the cookie jar...They may eat 5 or 6 trout a piece if infact they do catch them...but then again given good green moving water..we're eating 5 or 6 ourselves.
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Re: Dolphin eating trout
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08/03/07 06:26 PM
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spiny norman
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Must have been just down the beach from this guy from the TKF board.... Looks like flipper has us figured out. Me and my buddy took his boat to go wade a cut entering estes flats and started wading for the morning. I caught 3 trout early on the flats with a plastic and my buddy caught 1. After about an hour of light my buddy took off into the flats in search of a red. While I moved into about belly deep water to add four more specks on my stringer before my buddy came back an hour later. Allright soo my buddy is pissed cause I got 7 specks while he only has one. Well my buddy starts fishen with me and in the meantime another boat pulls up and starts fishen withen like 30 yds of me . They were fishen with live shrimp and were pullen schoolies out of the water one after another and were starting a feeding frenzy of porpuses around their boat eating the toss backs.
So I'm looken at this and I'm thinken allright I got 7 specks on my stringer and I'm wading with the porpuses, which I have done before with no problems, but I hollored over to my buddy for a little reassurance and just made sure that he hadn't heard of any porpuses ever attacking anybody's stringer. He was like na man no need to worry.
I was like allright well (no wood to knock on) withen 1 minute my stringer is death tight and has already dragged me 10ft and their is 100's of gallons of water being thrown into the water. Well for some reason it stopped for about 2 seconds and I have enough time to realize what happened and I am freaking out. So I turn around and see my friend doing a marathon sprint back to the boat (which he told me later he thought I was being attacked by a shark, and he had already given any hopes of me still being alive and was running for his on life) Well so I turn around and start sprinting for the boat in waist deep water and right after I turn my stringer gets slammed again. And I get wiplashed and dragged another 10ftin about 2 sec then it lets go again. (So I have had time to realize what is going on and I am franticly trying to save my life by getting my stringer OFF OF ME. Well I had it wraped around my wading belt to keep it from coming undun. Before I could get it undun again it attacks my stringer again and pulls me another 10ft allright soo right now Im packen up and handen in my slip cause i think im dead well it stops and i finally get the stringer off of my belt walk on water back to the boat and skip 8 heart beats.
Well that my story of surviving the killer poppoise this past monday. We ended up the day limiting out on trout and also the following day(today). With luckily no more near death experiences
Last edited by spiny norman; 08/03/07 06:27 PM.
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Re: Dolphin eating trout
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08/03/07 06:56 PM
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Thanks for the laugh spiny norman.
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Re: Dolphin eating trout
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08/03/07 07:12 PM
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SkeeterRonnie
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LMAO!! thats why you carry a good knife that is redily accessible.. LOL!!! cut that stringer loose!! Thats funny though.. friend was hauling cause he thought sharks!! LOL!!! lucky he didnt impale a stingray barb in his legs....
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Re: Dolphin eating trout
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08/04/07 02:26 AM
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Creed
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I can't stop laughing. That is the best story I have read in a while.
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Re: Dolphin eating trout
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08/04/07 02:46 AM
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Re: Dolphin eating trout
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08/04/07 06:04 AM
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jnd59
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I read in a magazine that dolphin were doing this to snook in Florida. Evidently they figured out that if they waited near the boat the snook would be released and they would hit them. I read they had also figured out that they would be more successful if they waited for the fish to be released rather than steal the fish while it was hooked. I guess most people would move when dolphin started eating the hooked fish.
 I fish on a 14 ft piece of plastic.
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Re: Dolphin eating trout
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08/04/07 11:11 AM
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never seen it.
but yes it has happened
but what will really break ya.
is when you have a 28"-29" trout on and a shark comes up and eats it.
Last edited by YELLOWCAT; 08/04/07 11:12 AM.
Justin 63lb, 2 58lb, several 40's, 38lb, and several 20lb yellas. 
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Re: Dolphin eating trout
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08/04/07 10:25 PM
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Ok, so honestly, has anyone ever tried hooking one of those trout and... in turn hooking one of those dolphins?!? Man, I'm not saying I'd ever do that but wouldn't that be an awesome fight?!!!
Toads for breakfast, lunch and dinner!
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Re: Dolphin eating trout
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08/05/07 05:29 AM
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psycho0819
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I had Porpoise grab a 12lb kingfish three years ago. We saw him come up for air, and he hit my king on the way down. We thought he was going to spool me. I grabbed the spool, locked it down, and just held on. I don't know why I didn't just tighten the drag. When everything let go I could still feel some resistance. I thought there was nothing but a head left (like a shark would do). When I got it too the boat, it was the whole fish. The dolphin had grabbed him at the fork in the tail and broken it's spine, killing it. That same dolphin followed us for about an hour before we got rid of him. Had to run to another spot to shake him.
We've had sharks grab fish, on and off of lines, a number of times, but that was the first dolphin for me. I had always wondered what it'd be like to have one on the end of a rod. But I'll tell y'all, in case your wondering. Just go outside and tie your line to the bumper of your truck, give your ol lady a few $100 and tell her there's a sale at Macy's! There was no fight to it. I was clearly outmatched with the broomstick and winch (as I call them) I was using.
I never thought a dolphin would grab a fish that big. Sharks? Sure! But not a Flipper. He did though, and taught me that He was wwaayy tougher than I gave him credit for!
Jay
Last edited by psycho0819; 08/05/07 05:38 AM.
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