Hey, check out this trout - it has two mouths!
No one from Clarence Olberding’s family ever made it to Harvard University but now his two-mouthed rainbow trout will get the chance. James Lee, a teaching assistant in the ichthyology department at Harvard University, called Olberding Thursday morning about his unusual catch and asked if he would donate it to the prestigious university. Related story: A fish with two mouths?
“He said he was studying fish jaws as part of an ichthyology study and would like to have the fish head,” Olberding said.
Lee couldn’t be reached for comment.
Olberding caught the fish while ice fishing at Holmes Lake last Saturday. The trout has a normal mouth and another non-functional mouth just below it.
Nebraska Game and Parks Commission fisheries officials speculate that the rare deformity may be the result of a genetic mutation.
Olberding, 57, plans to smoke the meaty part of the trout and eat it. But the head will be sent off to Harvard sometime next week in a frozen jell pack.
The two-mouthed trout has gotten a lot of attention on the Internet and from media nationwide. Olberding also has received calls from Florida and California, where he told his fish story on a live radio talk show.
“I wish I would have kept it intact and had it mounted but I think it’s going to the right place,” he said.
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