Rubber baits found in Keuka laker!

[troutman]

A buddie just sent me this picture of a laker caught in Keuka...obviously the results of jigging...doesn't look good to me!!!

[lakebound88]

Senkos??

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[troutman]

That's what it looks like to me!!!

[lakebound88]

I thought they were supposed to break down... Hmm

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[troutman]

That fish had 16!!!

[Big Water]

A buddy of mine found the same thing in a laker in central PA. I think it was 7 or 9. This can't be good and you would think they would be bio-degradable.

[troutman]

I just realized who I was chatting with...hey Nick!!!

[troutman]

One would think so BW!!!

[lakebound88]

Pictures too small, gene?

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[lost a lure]

 Obvious attempt to weigh in the heaviest fish 

[steelydan]

Obvious attempt to weigh in the heaviest fish

x2 LOL. I once caught a brown trout that had 6 cigarette butts in it! Edited March 30, 2016 by steelydan

[Hookedup]

Had same thing at Owasco caught a Laker with three jigs in it, and probably 8 bass worms.

[troutman]

Hey Sean...how's the folks?

[muskiedreams]

Talk about indigestion! I guess it couldn't just :puke: 

[Skidplate]

Is that real

[hermit]

As someone who has jigged up plenty of these and has lost maybe 1 or 2 whole soft plastic baits in ten years (though sometimes the tails get bitten off), I'm guessing those came from guys throwing used baits overboard instead of taking them home and disposing of them properly. The fish pick them up off the bottom.

I've seen a lot of people throwing used baits overboard out there. Please don't. Right here is an example of why.

I've caught 1 fish that had 1 bait in it, I guess this one developed a taste for them.

Edited March 30, 2016 by hermit

[Gill-T]

What it proves is Lake Trout are opportunists and are scavengers.

[alex1young]

This seems pretty common with lake trout. Someone found a human finger inside one a few summers back on lake Powell.

[BarringtonTrapper]

Was it caught near shore?

[GlassWater Outdoors]

We find Senkos in our lakers all the time down here. I is not uncommon at all. 

[bulletbob]

 I agree with our friend Hermit.. In 25 years of jigging Lakers i have caught 2 with plastics in the gut.. One  swallowed  a plastic worm, and one with a huge paddle tail swim grub. both from Seneca . These  lures do NOT get torn off very often.. lakers don't nibble on the tail of a jig, they swallow them  whole.. In my uneducated opinion, these lures were tossed after get scarred up, or replaced with a different color, or size.. Please, if you jig, take the discarded plastics off in the boat, and do not toss them overboard.. Lakers will snap them up... Obviously, they won't kill the fish, but I bet they  don't do it much good either... bob

Edited March 30, 2016 by bulletbob

[suttontroller94]

Good thing that fish wasn't caught during a tourney. Imagine trying to explain the extra pound of baits at weight in lol