More Pain

[bigugly]

It bothers me enough seeing the Chinook slaughter but do we have to start on the steelhead too? Saw this along Oshawa on Friday and I don't care I said what trib it was on. Why would anyone cut open a hen this time of the year, no way those eggs are good for anything and then leave it hanging in a tree along the path for others to see? What is wrong with people?

 

[Calvin Loney]

That really is quite disgusting... But really why the need to hang it in a tree??
And at this time of year are steelhead eggs still very undeveloped/ small?

 

[tossing iron]

Gills removed also Big?
Looks fresh still.
Maybe someone dressed it and was returning to take it home?

 

[bigugly]

We fished that pool till dark, no one came back. Gills were only out on the side the stick was jammed through, gills where intact on the other side. I was hoping to see someone come by and pick it up but no. I took it off branch and laid it on the ground. It was still there two days later.

 

[Calvin Loney]

That's really quite sad. Such a waste. Are lake o steelhead any good for eating thought?

 

[bigugly]

Up to you. Myself? I don't like the flavour of steelhead. For whatever the reason I think they taste like mud. Ministry guidelines are pretty strict on amount consumed, I won't eat anything from the lake.

 

[TheTallFisherman]

I am not one to assume anything, But It seems as if someone was trying to take it home? Why else put it up in the tree? (Maybe it was to keep insects off?) Could be an honest mistake!

Personally, I would have kept it in the water.

 

[Fisherman Dave]

Could be an honest mistake for sure, someone forgot after a couple too many from the flask... but I doubt it, I don't think I ever forgot a fish I kept, have you? I'm either excited for smoker meet or annoyed for the walk back with it, unless you've hooked up 20+ fish that day you're gonna remember that one of the few you pulled out you killed. In this situation, my money is one someone who had no idea it was a steelhead and was hoping for salmon roe.

 

[instapump416]

A damn waste, I would've taken it home and feed it to my pup.

 

[Fisherman Dave]

Bingo pump. Or give it to someone who can't afford fish. Hell toss it back in the damn river so other river organisms have some food. Leaving it on a tree? That spells cocky young kid to me, and I really cross my fingers that those are the people that wont last in the hobby for too long. Don't see too many dedicated steelheaders treating their catch this way, maybe we should pray for a few blizzards instead of rain, bonus effect of maybe keeping those types off the river.

 

[Bowie]

I HOPE it was an honest mistake ... I don't know how you would forget about a beauty like that though. SMH ...

 

[MuskieBait]

Looks like an honest mistake to me. Gill is ripped to bleed the fish out, it's gutted to keep the best condition, and it's hung on the trees so ants and other insects don't get to it, and the fish doesn't get leaves, mud or sand on it.

I've lost fish that I kept before...especially when icefishing when snow covered my fish and I can't find it after...especially when I had drilled a number of holes in the area and forgot which hole had fish near it. Sometimes, you get a snow dump so fast a fish is buried within minutes.

I've also kept a fish, put it in the bush, waded away to follow another fish on the line, came back, and can't find my fish anymore.

It happens...

 

[Calvin Loney]

Looks like an honest mistake to me. Gill is ripped to bleed the fish out, it's gutted to keep the best condition, and it's hung on the trees so ants and other insects don't get to it, and the fish doesn't get leaves, mud or sand on it.

I've lost fish that I kept before...especially when icefishing when snow covered my fish and I can't find it after...especially when I had drilled a number of holes in the area and forgot which hole had fish near it. Sometimes, you get a snow dump so fast a fish is buried within minutes.

I've also kept a fish, put it in the bush, waded away to follow another fish on the line, came back, and can't find my fish anymore.

It happens...

In this instance I guess we can all just hope it was an honest mistake and the person that forgot his fish will try his best next time to remember it..

 

[fisgfreek]

That's why they call her the "Dirty Shwa".

 

[bigugly]

I though honest mistake too but when you see the gills intact on the other side and the gill where not cut out they were ripped by the stick going through them. I'm hoping it was maybe a mistake but why hang it along path thirty feet away from the creek?

 

[Bowie]

I though honest mistake too but when you see the gills intact on the other side and the gill where not cut out they were ripped by the stick going through them. I'm hoping it was maybe a mistake but why hang it along path thirty feet away from the creek?

HOPEFULLY to pick it up on the way back or something ... bleh