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<blockquote data-quote="choupique" data-source="post: 4612426" data-attributes="member: 14574"><p>Extremely tiny only counts on silvers, when there's a big bony mass that partially blocks the throat. Have you ever actually looked at how the gill rakers are arranged? You can shove your fist all the way down a big bighead's throat down into its gut. Easily. The gill rakers just strain material that would otherwise go through the opercular opening, they <strong>don't block the gut</strong>. I've caught dozens of bigheads on jigs and streamers, they will most certainly eat fish when they get the chance, and I suspect many of the the diet studies that have been published don't reflect situations like below a dam or obstruction where they can stack up and blast schools of small shad. At several of the control structures out in west TN you can cast through mixed schools; feel your bait ticking across the silvers (you'll foul-hook a few) then BAM it gets hammered by a bighead. One after another. There's no way that's incidental. </p><p></p><p>FWIW, a couple weeks ago I got about a #35 grass carp on a 5" streamer while targeting stripers below a mainstem TN River dam. I could barely reach the eye of the hook it was so far down its throat. Now THAT's incidental.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="choupique, post: 4612426, member: 14574"] Extremely tiny only counts on silvers, when there's a big bony mass that partially blocks the throat. Have you ever actually looked at how the gill rakers are arranged? You can shove your fist all the way down a big bighead's throat down into its gut. Easily. The gill rakers just strain material that would otherwise go through the opercular opening, they [b]don't block the gut[/b]. I've caught dozens of bigheads on jigs and streamers, they will most certainly eat fish when they get the chance, and I suspect many of the the diet studies that have been published don't reflect situations like below a dam or obstruction where they can stack up and blast schools of small shad. At several of the control structures out in west TN you can cast through mixed schools; feel your bait ticking across the silvers (you'll foul-hook a few) then BAM it gets hammered by a bighead. One after another. There's no way that's incidental. FWIW, a couple weeks ago I got about a #35 grass carp on a 5" streamer while targeting stripers below a mainstem TN River dam. I could barely reach the eye of the hook it was so far down its throat. Now THAT's incidental. [/QUOTE]
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