Gut check

[Salty Gator]

We put the Jonny in at the lighthouse on Sunday at 1:40 and fished until 3:40. The reds were holding to rockpiles. We picked up 5 reds 22-25". 6-7 good keeper trout and a 18.5" flattie. All fish on gold Johnson spoon, white gulp ripple mullet and paddletail grubs. We invited 4 reds and the flounder home. As always, I looked in the stomach of the ones I cleaned. All fish had crab shells, one had a big shrimp and one had these



A large white(ish) worm, small white worm and possibly a bull minnow. I guess it is time to find some white senco bass worms

[charlie tuna]

[onefishtwofish]

Hey, that is a fillet knife, not a necropsy knife! Nice catch. That is always good info to have, for sure.

[Badbagger]

Nice, I'm still looking for the lure a big one took from me a few months back.

[Bonecracker]

Good work for 2 hours fishin!!:) Tide movement is everything!!

[luceror]

WAs that crab a softshell? Or did he swallow a hard crab whole?

[charlie tuna]

Hard shell.........

[Salty Gator]

I cleaned a 23" red last month with a whole stone crab in his stomach. The left claw was crushed but the carapace was whole and at least 3" wide. I had no idea they could swallow something that big and hard. Didn't have my phone handy. And what was that nasty little critter in the last photo? That is one ugly creature

[DEMON]

Quite the buffet they eat. What you've found goes with what I've been told over the years that they will eat just about anything. They nose across the bottom and thru the grass and eat anything their mouth touches.

[fishinfool]

And what was that nasty little critter in the last photo? That is one ugly creature

Rock Shrimp?

[charlie tuna]

NO, it's a "Mantis Shrimp" -- very good eating.. Ask any Redfish !!

[luceror]

1o-4 mantis shrimp. If his body was "whole" u would see why its called a mantis

[charlie tuna]

Sometimes a shrimp boat will catch a ton of these things -- people don't know how good they are like Rock Shrimp

[Gulf Coast]

Didn anyone notice that he had a 12pk with his lunch ?

[DEMON]

Didn anyone notice that he had a 12pk with his lunch ?

Nope. Just you. What does that tell you? I'm just saying!