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So I'm cutting up the lake trout the other day and some of the usual gray/green poo oozed out on the cutting board. When that happens I hose it all down before the next fish. They are slimy enough without slicking them up with fresh laker doo-doo from the preceding fish. Then I noticed a big glob of gray/green poo. "A laker turd!" I thought to myself. I've never seen their effluent any more solid than Gray Poupon mustard - and nearly the same color. So I gave it a squirt. It didn't dissolve, rather it turned brown. Wat-en-ell?

So I bravely reached over to touch it. (I was wearing rubber gloves.) It was a rock, mostly round, decidedly brown and about 1 1/4-inch in diameter. The dang fish had eaten a rock!

Never saw that before. Probably never will again - until today!

This one had at least three, one of them about 1/2" and a couple of quarter inchers in it's gut.

So, Lakerpalooza guys. Need a few extra ounces to put you in the winner's circle? Shove a handful of gravel down your fish. Word is, the "rock" bite is on!

Sucking those gobies out of the cracks in the rocks.

Maybe those lakers have developed gizzards after eating all of those glow in the dark gobies.