I pulled this out of the gut of a 3lb Pollack - what is it ?

[flynnboy]

Hi Guys,

I was gutting a nice 3lb Pollack last Sunday when I found this - see picture. It is about 1' long and has a head and mouth very similar to a sea-horse. Does anyone have any idea exactly what it is ?

[2Poc]

That's a pipefish - close relative of a seahorse.

[evan699]

pipe fish.

[flynnboy]

Brilliant. Thanks guys. I've never seen one before !

[Danshane]

Does it count as a new species for you if its inside another fish caught?

[mickeyfish]

very popular in pollack up in donegal bay

i remember fishing up there before out of mullaghmore and the pollack were bulging with pipefish

[brianbru]

I caught big pollack on them in burton port they were bulging with them so i used a couple of them and they murdered fish.

brian

[flynnboy]

I had several fish around the 3lb mark that morning. Inside one of the others there were 5 prawns obviously just swallowed as they were undigested - so we cooked them and ate them, as well as the fish

[corbyeire]

caught 3 huss recently and all 3 puked up pipefish

[philiphito]

Brilliant. Thanks guys. I've never seen one before !

you have to visit Galway Salthill aqvarium!

[chuckaroo]

I had several fish around the 3lb mark that morning. Inside one of the others there were 5 prawns obviously just swallowed as they were undigested - so we cooked them and ate them, as well as the fish

brilliant.

[chenz116]

I had several fish around the 3lb mark that morning. Inside one of the others there were 5 prawns obviously just swallowed as they were undigested - so we cooked them and ate them, as well as the fish

please tell me ur joking

[flynnboy]

I had several fish around the 3lb mark that morning. Inside one of the others there were 5 prawns obviously just swallowed as they were undigested - so we cooked them and ate them, as well as the fish

please tell me ur joking

Nope

[gavind19]

pipefish if u can get them alive, use them on a flowing trace lethal, i had ten drops ten pollack, untill i was no longer able to put him on the hook hope it helps

[BigPhil]

remember one of them being caught at the home nations shore in scotland about 5 years ago by one of the welsh junior anglers! on a size 4 hook too!!!

[cathalger]

I had several fish around the 3lb mark that morning. Inside one of the others there were 5 prawns obviously just swallowed as they were undigested - so we cooked them and ate them, as well as the fish

A novel way to get hold of some good shellfish. They couldnt be fresher. I got pipefish in pollacks throats here in Antrim before as well, always interesting to look a pollacks gut if youve kept them, never know what youll find, Id recommend people to try to do it and share their findings, no jokin.

Wouldnt want to promote fish killing just for this purpose, no way. But if folk take an odd one, check the stomach? Ive seen a couple of species I would probably never see in my life if not for this way.

Prawns rock, were they big?