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Post by exerod on Aug 27, 2006 22:47:26 GMT
Saw this on the bottom of a pool today so I foul hooked it out to try and see what was wrong with it (other than being dead), I knew all those years of snatching would come in useful one day  Anyway is it a seal bite, we don't see seal damage very often down here. The opposite flank was eaten down to the backbone over the area covered by the 'teeth' marks on this flank.   Andy |
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Post by robmason on Aug 28, 2006 6:04:33 GMT
It looks like the markings of a large bird of prey. Are there Osprey in deepest Dorset?
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Post by williegunn on Aug 28, 2006 7:53:44 GMT
I do not think it is a seal.
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Post by 666shaft on Aug 28, 2006 8:49:15 GMT
Not an Osprey, I see these every year at my trout fishery and they leave long deep slashes from their talons. Most probably an otter, a seal would eat the whole fish whereas otters tend to play with them and just eat a bit!
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Post by tawrod on Aug 28, 2006 10:04:15 GMT
What ever it was I bet the pressure was rising!! Boom Boom
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Post by exerod on Aug 28, 2006 20:06:05 GMT
Otter was the other thing we thought it might have been. Ospreys occasionally visit Dorset on their migrations but I doubt one would get anywhere near a typical chalkstream salmon lying six feet down, tight up against the bank and half hidden in the weeds. What ever it was I bet the pressure was rising!! Boom Boom If you fished a half decent river with some fish in it you wouldn't have time to keep looking at your barometric watch  Andy |
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Post by tyneandrew on Aug 28, 2006 21:08:51 GMT
Surely its from a Goosander or a Cormorant, although neither deserve a capital letter in my book!
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Post by macd on Aug 28, 2006 21:19:55 GMT
What ever it was I bet the pressure was rising!! Boom Boom ;D ;D |
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Post by exerod on Aug 29, 2006 20:18:01 GMT
The wounds were too shallow to be cormorant, I've seen plenty of cormorant stab marks on rainbows that have gone right through the fish. Would a cormorant tackle a 7lb salmon and even if it did I don't think it could kill one, some of the rainbows I used to catch had two or three holes in them but still fought strongly. Luckily goosanders don't visit us here.
Andy
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Post by kercock on Aug 29, 2006 22:28:24 GMT
I reckon the fish was straddled by a Heron,stabbed five times with that deadly beak at the time the pressure was rising causing the fish to renew its efforts to go upriver and make its escape . Later it died of its wounds and was partially eaten by a Vole., there's a lot of voles in Devon y'know. By the way Andy you've done a nice job on your nail (finger) !!!!!!!!!!!!!ps No live animals were used to make that picture..
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Post by hadrian on Aug 29, 2006 22:37:57 GMT
looks like its jumped to high and caught an overhead electricity cable,somersaulted twice,landed in the line pool,on a rising glass.
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Post by exerod on Aug 30, 2006 14:02:43 GMT
You're all being silly now aren't you ;D By the way Andy you've done a nice job on your nail (finger) !!!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you, you can spot a gentleman salmon fisher by his nails, the ones with dirty ragged nails are all wormers! Andy |
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Post by jt on Sept 7, 2006 8:18:27 GMT
Just seen this. Definitely an otter - looks as though it's been held twice making some double punctures. Yep definitely an otter... ...with a shotgun loaded with bb's and a mean streak!  |
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Post by kercock on Sept 8, 2006 6:04:51 GMT
It's a well known fact that wormers keep their nails neatly trimmed so as other anglers don't know they have been worming !
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Post by flyman on Sept 25, 2006 0:14:32 GMT
I reckon the fish was straddled by a Heron,stabbed five times with that deadly beak at the time the pressure was rising causing the fish to renew its efforts to go upriver and make its escape . Later it died of its wounds and was partially eaten by a Vole., there's a lot of voles in Devon y'know. By the way Andy you've done a nice job on your nail (finger) !!!!!!!!!!!!!ps No live animals were used to make that picture.. dennis your a star.haha.  jim |
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