Saw a large dead brown in some trigs in the shallows... upon closer inspection, it had a decent sized sunfish stuck in its throat... surmise that the dorsal fin on the sunfish wouldn’t allow passage in either direction.
Glutton!
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Re: Glutton!
#2I doubt that the spines of the dorsal fin played a role as they will lay flat against the back in the orientation shown in the photo. More likely a case of it's being too large to pass into the gullet. The spines would definitely come into the picture in an attempt to eject it from the mouth (spit it out). to paraphrase Dr. Phil: "It let it's alligator sized mouth overload it's hummingbird sized throat".
Re: Glutton!
#3And the guide told me anything bigger that a size #20 in that river was a waste of time.