A Trout With Two Mouths Was Caught In Lake Champlain
A few days ago a picture showed up online of a fish with two mouths. It was originally posted as two headed lake trout. At first everyone’s response was yeah, right, that is fake news. It’s not. I spent a few days triple checking. This is the catch of a lifetime, but what’s up with that fish? Does it have two heads, two mouths?
After being tagged in posts with this “fishy” story about a hundred plus times I had to do some digging. We see all kinds of made up pictures, photshopped, even fish jammed in another fish to appear to have two heads. This is real.
While fishing Lake Champlain with her husband, Debbie Geddes got the catch of a lifetime. She hooked into this lake trout that though appears to have two heads, it really has what appears to have two mouths. They took a few pictures and released the fish. Her coworker posted the pictures on social media and they went viral, and rightfully so.
There are dozens of theories how this happened from pollution to aliens. The best theory and probably the most likely is that the isthmus below the lower jaw was torn in an old injury and it healed. Leaving the fish with what appears to have two mouths. My favorite theory, it is the offspring of the legendary Lake Champlain monster Chappy.
You never know what you are going to pull out of the water. Fish with injuries will survive and live with deformities. That is one tough fish to be able to survive. We occasionally catch striped bass with dented heads. There is a freaky fish swimming around Lake Champlain, and maybe more.
Fish On!
Rich King