What did she eat?

[SmallStreams]

I caught a fat 12" searun cutthroat yesterday in the Necanicum...

As always, I checked out the stomach contents and found the remains of a shrimp and these two pearl-like objects. What are these?

 

[tnffishman]

it looks to me like some crustacean remains, but dfinately not sure

 

[Moe]

hard boiled egg?

 

[FishFinger]

Undigested "Mr Bill" parts?

 

[Raincatcher]

An old sailors glass eye? Ewwww!

 

[Mike123]

Look like half digested sea enemies.

 

[nwkiller]

thats crazy, ive only seen that one other time and it was in a non-searun rainbow up near oakridge on the willamette, im not sure what they are but.....the ones i had, had rings like a tree, almost layers, but reminded me of a jaw breaker...weird, send it to ODFW and see what they say

 

[n8r1]

What part of the Necanicum? Up river by Klootchy, or the Tidewater area in Seaside? Just curious, I'm trying to get as much info on the Necanicum as I can.

 

[SmallStreams]

Near tidewater, but above it.

 

[n8r1]

Cool, thanks! Do you know how much longer the cutties are going to be in the Necanicum? I've looked online but there's not a lot of info on this small river.

 

[Modest_Man]

It's part of the crayfish digestive tract, called a gastrolith (a stomach or gizzard stone).

I get these all the time in my fish tanks after I feed my fish crayfish.

 

[SmallStreams]

That explains everything!

Googled "crayfish gastrolith" and found images where they had fossilized and turned into opals.