This is only half of these things that came out of the stomach of a recent SW WA hatchery brat.
What are they????

look like small hearts?

Beef hearts?

Chicken hearts and gizzards

It's tummy was stuffed with whatever they are?

Well..... There ya have it.... Cats outta the bag!!

the girlfriend has a cat that I'd like to put in a bag!!!

Sturgeon bait. Good luck,


SZ

They kinda look like partially digested, dyed coon shrimp to me? That was one hungry winter run!

kalamata olives

Looks like hearts and kidneys

Not falling for that one....

[video:youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzJ6932d_N4[/video]

lol--forgot bout dat one spoonage

I can see everyone here is just as stumped.

I don't see any cigarette butts in the mix, can't be a Columbia system steelhat. They love rising to em & slurping them like mayflys.

Looks like chicken kidneys heart and liver. Grandpa used to use liver for steelhead bait, pink worms of his day. Back in the 1950s and 60's. Puyallup fish. Caught the crap out of them.

Who gives a $hit what they are; looks to me like you better get some on a hook and head back to the crik right away.

Does indeed look like chicken parts. Must be hard to hook up with it though if that one fish had that many baits in it...

Are there lots of old timers down stream of where you were fishing? "Social security" bait I think it's called.

I have a bunch of ray bobbers that will match that hatch!

Not sure what those are. However I can tie some flies that look just like those if you want to buy them for $15.oo

Nuts

Typically in most of our steelhead once they are in the rivers their digestive systems are essentially shut down. As a result virtually every item they ingest is identifiable.

However if you look at the picture showing the insides of this fish it is clear that it is a kelt (spawned out). Not to long after spawning the digestion process re-starts and the fish begins feeding and recovering from its spawning efforts. In this case the result is that the stomach contents are partially digested and difficult to identify. Though based on the color it seems logically that whatever it was it had been dyed. Dyed prawn/shrimp pieces sounds like a reasonable "guess"..


Curt

Fish Detective Curt nailed this one out of the park!

Hmmm - I don't know about that. They really look like offal parts and nothing there screams shrimp. Interestingly, look at the size of the knife in scale comparison. These things look pretty small and a bit smaller than any fowl livers or kidneys I've ever seen or fished with. Chicken "fries" perhaps? Regardless, this just re-confirms that a Steely will eat just about anything.

Hey now... that was my guess back on page 1

It was one hungry fish. Those are not shrimp, either olives or grapes. Seedless whatever they were. I threw about 6 others out before I took that pic. The fish was caught near a pretty popular park in the area. Some one musta been tossing them in and the fish liked um> ALOT! I've been busy so I'm curing her eggs today. Not a spawner about an 8 pound fish that was actually a really nice cutting Steelhead...for a winter fish. Wish I would have taken a pic with all of them.

Not quite so clear now?

The eggs were not fully mature for a fish her size. She for sure was not spawned or close to it, I'll send pics to 2many of the skeins from her before I cure them today, maybe he can post them. Not that it really matters. the fish was still eating weird chit.

Dear Mr. mistake Legends .I don't care what they are just save them and I'll fish them the next time we're together.

Olympic Mountain oysters.