Snakes alive… Shocked angler finds a deadly surprise inside the mouth of a fish
AMATEUR angler discovers a venomous creature inside the monster cod he reeled in
AN angler got the shock of his life after catching a fish – and finding a deadly snake in its mouth.
Amateur angler Andy Warton reeled in a whopper of a cod but got the shock of his life when he went to remove the hook.
Inside the monster’s mouth he found a venomous snake which he pulled out from the fish’s stomach while the whole thing was caught on camera.
The video was filmed in waters off the coast of Australia’s Northern Territory and the 44-year-old fisherman can be heard saying: “This is a cod and it’s got a snake in it’s mouth. No way!”
Some of the fishermen on board the boat with Andy can be heard on camera saying: “This is what you get when you’re a wild man.
“He’s just pulled a SNAKE from the mouth of a fish.”
“He’s only just eaten it. Isn’t that incredible.”
Andy revealed that the slimy stowaway was a spotted black snake, one of the most deadly snakes in Australia.
He said: “I've been fishing since I was six years old and fishing in Northern Australian waters since 1999 and I have never seen anything like this before.
"I've seen crocodiles eat pigs and eagles, I've had big barramundi stolen by sharks, but up until this experience, I've never seen a fish with a fresh snake in its belly.”
Andy released both the hungry fish and the grateful snake back into the water to live another day.
The amazing clip has had hundreds of views online.
Earlier this year, a group of fishermen were baffled to land an “alien fish” with “feet, toes and a human nose” in the Caribbean.
And last month another mammoth ‘alien fish’, with no fin was caught by a fisherman off the coast of the East China Sea, near Zhoushan City, in China’s Zhejiang Province.
A video of the catch shows the grey sea creature with smooth, glossy skin, which its captors described as being "dolphin-like".
Caught in a large net, it had reportedly already died when it floated to the surface of the water.
Experts believe it may have been a rare member of the beaked whale family.