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Double-mouthed fish pulled from Neb. Lake
(AP)
Updated: 2005-12-23 08:56
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.
A rainbow trout
fished out of Holmes Lake in Lincoln, Neb., on Dec. 17, 2005, features a
double mouth. Clarence Olberding, 57, of Lincoln, 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. Olberding, who plans to
smoke and eat the fish, said the hook was in the upper mouth, and that the
lower one did not appear to be functional.
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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.
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