I have found quite a few dead ones this year, too, as have anyone else paying attention.
The numbers seem to be about the same amount as I remember, as there have been in previous years that I've fished Taney.
Always more dead ones in the fall.
I haven't found a really fresh one yet.
Maybe if I was there more often.
I wonder how many of the fish that people take the time to revive. And let swim away on their own, end up belly up at a later time.
I have seen many fish, I have had great confidence in was fully revived, swim off, to set at bottom, upright and facing into the current.
Later wondering if it had truly survived.
I know most do, survive. I wonder how many do not.