Two-Mouthed Fish
Why does it seem like it’s always the fish that come out of the water deformed? It’s never a worm, or a starfish with 7 legs… it’s always a fish.
Double-Mouthed Fish Pulled From Neb. Lake
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.
I wonder if there’s a nuclear power plant nearby! I definitely wouldn’t want to eat that fish thoguh.
Comment by Tim — 12/22/2005 @ 9:35 am
thoguh?
Comment by Tara — 12/22/2005 @ 10:04 am
Tara, I am tired of the deformed fish stories. First we had the fish with the tongue, not it’s the
2 mouthed dish. Don’t you have any pictures of other deformed wildlife?
Comment by Kim — 12/22/2005 @ 12:55 pm
Yes, thoguh. What are you doing Starurady mornign?
Comment by Tim — 12/22/2005 @ 1:46 pm
Starfish are salt water invertebrates, so you would be unlikely to find one crawling around a lake in Nebraska. Get real, Tara. Jeeesh.
Comment by Heraldblog — 12/22/2005 @ 4:44 pm
Oh boy… I am seeing yet another ugliest cat story involving
a fish!!! Everyone brace themselves!!!
Comment by Tulsa — 12/22/2005 @ 10:34 pm