Fishing with Rod Discussion Forum
Fishing in British Columbia => General Discussion => Topic started by: Johnny Canuck on April 15, 2013, 08:33:18 PM
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Found this on the river yesterday, I guess the angler thought the fish was a hatchery hiding in a wilds skin?
(http://i1272.photobucket.com/albums/y396/Roe_Bandit/P4142353_zps959f3a66.jpg) (http://s1272.photobucket.com/user/Roe_Bandit/media/P4142353_zps959f3a66.jpg.html)
Would take a fair bit of effort to skin a fish like this I would think as the skin was fully intact accept for the head area and pectoral fins. Brings a whole new meaning to fought like a wet sock...
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Sad sight.... sadly I seem to find or catch someone poaching steelhead every year..
Also people need to learn how to read the regs and if your fishing a river that requires you to have a steelhead tag at this time of year, you need it.... You cant just say I'm fishing for trout and crush budwisers and litter the river like the POS you are.
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How do you know it was a fisherman that killed that fish?
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How do you know it was a fisherman that killed that fish?
That was my first thought as well
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I said a fisherman as it was only the skin left literally and it was the entire body just behind the pectoral fins. There were no punctures from birds or tear marks from teeth or claws. Also the skin closest to the head it looked like a knife was used to cut the skin as there were numerous lacerations to completely circle the fish. It was actually like a sock and after I took a pic of it I tossed it back in the river and the tail area had some air trapped in it and it floated around the pool for 10-15 minutes before the current pulled it down stream. I was thinking some douche bag figured he would rather get caught with a skinned fish rather than with a wild by another angler or a CO. joshhowat I seen the same guys I think on saturday they were wreaking of beer and leaving empties on the hike in and it was only like 10am when I seem them. I didn't see any cans on the ground during my hike in, only in the hike out after they came in. They were in a black ford F150 with a black canopy like a 2010 model both of them were Russian or some European descent judging by their accents.
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I can tell u first hand that fish was skinned and taken. If you turned it inside out you could see it very clearly.
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Thats Chupacabra. Or maybe some greys? :o
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Shatner alert. Aliens are taking fish bodies and leaving the skin.
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Might be a new Norwegian virus, better call Ms. M ;D ;D ;D
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You know something we don't Dave?
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Might be a new Norwegian virus, better call Ms. M ;D ;D ;D
Who is Ms M ;D
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Who is Ms M ;D
A propagandist.
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Johnny Canuck. See what happens when you drive your jet boat up the Vedder. The fish hear/see you coming and jump right out of their skin. Lol.
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There is other rivers than the Chilliwack system, and like I said I only go up it in JUNE not while it is open for fishing!
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I want to learn how to de-meat my fish like that.
Must have been a Surgeon.
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I think it is amazing that someone would hike in there and take the time to poach a fish. I find it even more amazing someone would take the time to skin it perfectly like that.
Not saying I doubt it, the world is an amazing place and full of wonders but thats lots of work for the meat from a fish species that is not the best eating in the first place (IMO unless it is firstlight's smoked steelhead).
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Never said it was a hard hike or if the river even has hatchery fish in it... I don't think it would even be that difficult to skin a fish like that. Get the skin starting to come off then hook the lower jaw on a branch or a corner of a big pointed rock and start tugging. Probably could do the whole process in like 3-5 minutes I would be guessing.
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You'd think if someone cut the meat out, or pulled the skin off, the skin would have been left inside out no? Unless the poacher turned it back scales out after???
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Never said it was a hard hike or if the river even has hatchery fish in it... I don't think it would even be that difficult to skin a fish like that. Get the skin starting to come off then hook the lower jaw on a branch or a corner of a big pointed rock and start tugging. Probably could do the whole process in like 3-5 minutes I would be guessing.
Kinda like I used to skin muskrats ;)
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You'd think if someone cut the meat out, or pulled the skin off, the skin would have been left inside out no? Unless the poacher turned it back scales out after???
It was inside out when found, then got turned back as I was curious if it had an adipose on it...
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I think it was skinned because its a lot easier to hide a bunch of meat then a 8 lbs whole wild steelhead.....
Makes sense to me, scum bags can be pretty smart.
As for a lot of work to just poach some steelhead.... I have seem some amazing poaching happening way hell and back in the bush. You can always tell there up to no good when you pop out of the bush and their eyes grow the size of golf balls and they scurry off like a rat.. they are.