Rainbow Trout With Two Mouths Pulled From Lake (Pic)

[matcom]

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LINCOLN, Neb. --This fish didn't have a chance. A rainbow trout pulled out of Holmes Lake last weekend had double the chance to get hooked: It had two mouths.

Clarence Olberding, 57, wasn't just telling a fisherman's fib when he called over another angler to look at the two-mouthed trout. It weighed in at about a pound.

"I reached down and grabbed it to take the hook out, and that's when I noticed that the hook was in the upper mouth and there was another jaw protruding out below," said Olberding.

He said in his 40 years of fishing, he's never seen anything like it.

Don Gabelhouse, head of the fisheries division of the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission, said a two-mouthed fish was new to him, too.

"It's probably a genetic deformity," he said. "I don't think there's anything wrong with it."

The second mouth didn't appear to be functional, Olberding said. He has plans for the fish, which don't included mounting.

"I'm going to smoke it up and eat it," he said.

http://www.boston.com/news/odd/articles/2005/12/21/double_mouthed_fish_pulled_from_neb_lake?mode=PF

[Shell Beau]

1. Aw, he should have thrown it back!

x(

[DS1]

2. What shitty writing

The fish didn't have a chance. The fish had double the chance


asshole

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

3. A lot of lakes are now stocked by trout farms anymore

I'd bet it was a deformity caused by genetic engineering...just a hunch though, no proof

[Jamastiene]

4. I take it the top mouth bit the bait?

I wouldn't eat a mutated catch. Probably fucked up DNA. Who knows when mutated fish and wildlife will start poisoning us? Maybe I'm just paranoid.

[ET Awful]

5. Why am I thinking of "Blinky" the three-eyed Simpsons fish?

:P

[In_The_Wind]

6. I agree with you!

I'm not going to eat something that's mutated!