Big Dead One

[Travis Swift]

A friend of mine found a big dead brown this afternoon that was 30+ pounds. Hate to see it, look at the tale on that fish.  Been awhile since we've seen a really big one show up, figured I would share. 

[Ham]

Turtles and crawfish gotta eat

[Phil Lilley]

Can’t see the adipose fin area but it looks to be snipped. Probably a triploid. Doesn’t look like Frank. 

[netboy]

What a shame. Hopefully it died of natural causes. 

I guess if someone caught it recently and then tried to release it we would have heard about it and there surely would have been pictures.

[XP 590]

That tail tells a tale 😁

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What about the tail, @Travis Swift?   Do you mean the adipose fin?

[fishinwrench]

I went on a rant once about biologists clipping fins, and somebody, supposedly connected with MDC in some way, got on here and ripped into me big-time, claiming that nobody from MDC ever clipped fishes fins off.   

Does anyone, by chance, remember that?

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9 hours ago, fishinwrench said:

I went on a rant once about biologists clipping fins, and somebody, supposedly connected with MDC in some way, got on here and ripped into me big-time, claiming that nobody from MDC ever clipped fishes fins off.   

Does anyone, by chance, remember that?

I think I do.  It was a looong time ago wasn't it??

[laker67]

9 hours ago, fishinwrench said:

I went on a rant once about biologists clipping fins, and somebody, supposedly connected with MDC in some way, got on here and ripped into me big-time, claiming that nobody from MDC ever clipped fishes fins off.   

Does anyone, by chance, remember that?

I don't recall this, but the hatchery manager at sheppard told me in 05 that they had been  doing a 4 year rotation of fin clips on brown trout for the past 12 years. That's how he knew at a glance that my fish was at least 12 years old. Maybe they do not consider hatchery people as MDC.

[Travis Swift]

All I meant by look at the tail was that it was a huge tail and was thick all the way to the tail.  Just a huge fish.