Dead Fish in Lake

[ccarver80]

What (if any) are the laws for scooping a dead fish found in a lake while boating?? Just curious.... found something REALLY interesting the other day in my boat.... don't want to post if its going to get me in trouble....

 

[lunkerslayer]

Perfectly legal would count as part of your daily limits
The state record walleye was dead fish found on the shore

 

[Account Deleted]

I dunno but now you have my interest piqued.

 

[ccarver80]

Ok haha well I guess I'll post it... kinda crazy... found in bay of tobacco gardens ... I put it back ... I didn't know what kinda laws there were.

 

[lunkerslayer]

Now that is a different outcome that is a seasonal regulated fish. Good choice on putting in back, as far as the back half looks like a bigger fish got a piece of it.

 

[johnr]

Prop is my guess

 

[ccarver80]

im hoping it was a boat! ... if there's a big enough fish to take out a assumed 55" paddle fish.... well someone better call Jeremy wade from river monsters and get him down here #$%^&>;:;rofl

 

[lunkerslayer]

I believe there are some monster fish out in the waters, I remember hearing stories about divers who were inspecting the dam structure when something big would pass by them in the shadows. This made the divers spooked which they refused to return down in the murky waters. I don't know if there is any truth to it but I can believe there are some big fish in that big body of water.

 

[shorthairsrus]

That could be lunch over a number of days and mutiple fish. I have seen it bass fishing in shallows -- you name it -- it could even be little perch that will eat over time. Fish died some other way most likely.

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you just plain see fish that dont make through the winter.

 

[Sum1]

Shorthairs, you telling us perch killed that thing? haha

 

[dean nelson]

No damage anywhere else on the fish with color still dark and gills still red makes me think that the fish wasn't dead long. Only logical answer is a boat strike......either that or we have a shark problem. As for keeping I'm guessing it would be considered the same as sturgeon and must be left where they are.

 

[Sum1]

Not sure why you would want to keep.

 

[ccarver80]

Haha gross... I guess you could throw it on an anthill and keep the skull and paddle ... but fish and game would be so thrilled about that I'm sure they come pay you a visit hahha

 

[Brian Renville]

:;:smokin Wow! Looks too fresh to have been picked at for awhile. Looks really fresh actually. I'd say a prop as well. There's plenty of fish big enough to eat that much I believe but none that have the teeth to actually get it done, like that anyway. Every dam and bridge built by humans has the same stories about big dark figures, our brains love to play tricks on us. That's surely a find to mess with the imagination though!

 

[Pinecone]

prop, and not ur girlfreind

 

[Account Deleted]

I dunno how it happened but it must have snuck up on him. I've never seen a fish look so surprised.

 

[dean nelson]

:;:smokin Wow! Looks too fresh to have been picked at for awhile. Looks really fresh actually. I'd say a prop as well. There's plenty of fish big enough to eat that much I believe but none that have the teeth to actually get it done, like that anyway. Every dam and bridge built by humans has the same stories about big dark figures, our brains love to play tricks on us. That's surely a find to mess with the imagination though!

Doesn't have to be imagination. ...you get a 100 pound paddlefish come by you in murky water and your going to pucker pretty good.

 

[raider]

i've been bumped a few times in mosh pits by something huge that scared the crap out of me...

 

[Brian Renville]

Doesn't have to be imagination. ...you get a 100 pound paddlefish come by you in murky water and your going to pucker pretty good.

I bet is some sturgeon in there that go well into triple digits as well.

 

[dean nelson]

Yeah they crossed my mind as well. Hell a big buffalo or 30 pound pike would be spooky as well. I used to have a 15 pound pike that would follow me around every time I was free diveing at the folks and the first time I turned around and saw her just a couple feet away spooked the shit out of me. She was pretty cool though because she knew when I would push through the weeds I would flush baby carp and she would clean them up. It was fun watching her go zero to mach 2 in the blink of an eye.