Any Fishing Enthusiasts here ?

[Member 482121]

Hey, I want to let you all know something.

I was fishing on Friday, and I came across a poaching incident. Some guys killed an animal, cut off the tail, then left everything else to rot. I came across the carcass while I was fishing. Had to call Idaho Fish and Game, And they are looking into it. It got me thinking about something, I wanted to share with all of you.

Guys, don't poach. One, it's wrong to just kill an animal and take only a part of it and leave the rest to rot, and two, it is illegal. It's basically Wildlife theft.

Jared

What animal was it?

 

[jnicholes]

@herman 48

To be honest, I could not identify it. It was that bad.

Jared

 

[Member 482121]

I wonder if it was a raccoon, or a coyote, or a fox, whose tails make nice redneck-style ornaments for car radio antennae. In most states these animals are considered varmints and there is no closed season on them. Now, if somebody had poached a deer just to cut off its tail to use the hairs as fishing fly hackles, that would be real poaching and a darned waste of good meat.

 

[jnicholes]

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These are the pictures I took for fish and game. It's definitely a fur bearing mammal that has adapted to living in the water. It's got skin between its toes, and it has claws. It was extremely big. It looks like its tail was cut off, whatever it was.

It had a large scar on its side, like something hit it there.

Jared

 

[Member 482121]

A beaver? Maybe it was hit by a boat's propeller that chopped off its tail and put a gash in its side. However, beavers' tails are rally good eating, if you skin them. Maybe it was cut off to be barbecued...

 

[itsasmallfarm]

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These are the pictures I took for fish and game. It's definitely a fur bearing mammal that has adapted to living in the water. It's got skin between its toes, and it has claws. It was extremely big. It looks like its tail was cut off, whatever it was.

It had a large scar on its side, like something hit it there.

Jared

that looks like a beaver to me, lots of areas here have bounty's on the tail. there such a nuisance places. (where i went elk hunting last fall there was a 40 dollar bounty on one beaver tail.)

 

[Member 482121]

that looks like a beaver to me, lots of areas here have bounty's on the tail. there such a nuisance places. (where i went elk hunting last fall there was a 40 dollar bounty on one beaver tail.)

One could make a few bucks, at 40 dollars a tail and the sale of the pelt. I don't know how much they pay for prime beaver pelts nowadays, though. If I remember correctly in the '70's and 80's in Montana they fetched about 70 dollars. Prime red fox fetched up to one-hundred, coyote 150. And they paid pretty good money for raccoon, badger, and mink. A friend of mine, a shop teacher, added a considerable sum to his salary by trapping, skinning, stretching and drying pelts and selling them in Havre. He also used beaver, mink and coyote pelts to have a gorgeous and incredibly warm knee-long coat with hood made for him professionally. It kept him nice and toasty warm even at forty below when he rode a snowmobile. It looked like an Eskimo parka.

 

[AngieMaesChix]

Hello! AngieMae here NW Ohio small small town called Cloverdale.. we live on a small rundown farm we are working to make not so rundown lol..we also happen to live on the Blanchard River that has some darn good fishing. It also feeds into all the rivers I grew up fishing and eventually into Lake Erie...I am a huge outdoors person camping kayaking and of course fishing and lots of other things...got my first decent cat Saturday night...ten total that night here’s a pick of the best..gonna be a nice one today gonna have pack up and make my way down the hill today!!

 

[Member 482121]

Nice kitty! What bait did you use? Fishing on the bottom with sliding sinker or what other rig?

If I survive Thursday night's new wave of storms and tornadoes I am planning to go fishing this coming weekend. Last Sunday it was scary. One town not too far from here, Troy, took a direct hit. No one was killed, but a few were injured and many houses and business were destroyed or severely damaged. Power lines down everywhere.

 

[jnicholes]

@AngieMaesChix, welcome to the thread!

That's a nice catfish. I caught one recently about that size. Chicken liver works well for catfish. I mainly fish in the Snake River here in Southwestern Idaho.

I meant to post this yesterday, but I came down with kidney stones, so I'm posting it today.





I caught three massive crawdads one day, then I trapped seven more yesterday. They were pretty delicious.

I hope I get better. This is the first time I've ever had kidney stones.

I say this a lot, and I wanted to say it to you guys. It basically describes how dedicated I am to going fishing when I want to go.

"The only natural force that can stop me from fishing is a thunderstorm."

Seeing as I live in Idaho, tornadoes, hurricanes, and earthquakes are not on this list.

Jared