what is this thing ? i have never seen this kind of fish in the lake i live on ? i have a feeling a bird dropped it into the lake on it's flight back or something ??? i have seen catfish smallies and large mouth bass in the lake never whatever this is ?

actually .... starting to possibly think this is just a dead largemouth bass ????? looks nothing like one though....

It's a smallmouth bass, looks like someone cut the gills out to keep it and decided not to so they threw it back in the lake. 

2 minutes ago, Bluebasser86 said:

It's a smallmouth bass, looks like someone cut the gills out to keep it and decided not to so they threw it back in the lake. 

wow .... that is such a scumbag move... it actually was right by the boat ramp too a little more to right of it but still close to the boat ramp

 

thanks for the identification though

5 minutes ago, Ralph Nicholas Vito said:

wow .... that is such a scumbag move... it actually was right by the boat ramp too a little more to right of it but still close to the boat ramp

 

thanks for the identification though

That really makes it clear, planned on keeping it but couldn't catch enough to make it worth keeping, so they dumped it by the ramp. You're right, scummy move for sure. I doubt it would have been too difficult to find someone else to keep it. 

5 hours ago, Bluebasser86 said:

That really makes it clear, planned on keeping it but couldn't catch enough to make it worth keeping, so they dumped it by the ramp. You're right, scummy move for sure. I doubt it would have been too difficult to find someone else to keep it. 

may i ask why they cut the gills out ? is that a normal tactic to kill the fish or what 

On 7/16/2018 at 8:59 AM, Ralph Nicholas Vito said:

may i ask why they cut the gills out ? is that a normal tactic to kill the fish or what 

Slitting the gills of fresh water fish allows the blood to drain out fish which will make the meat less fishy and more white looking.

Would have been a pretty big Bird.  Lucky it wasn't still around.

28 minutes ago, LionHeart said:

Would have been a pretty big Bird.  Lucky it wasn't still around.

Would have been other marks on the fish if it had been another animal too. There would be puncture/slash wounds from a bird. The lack of other marks and clean cut and removed gills makes it obvious it was a human. 

58 minutes ago, LxVE Bassin said:

Cutting the gills off fresh water fish allows the blood to drain out fish which will make the meat less fishy and more white looking.

I see so it wasn't just some random person it was someone who knew exactly what they were doing and how to do it properly

23 minutes ago, Bluebasser86 said:

Would have been other marks on the fish if it had been another animal too. There would be puncture/slash wounds from a bird. The lack of other marks and clean cut and removed gills makes it obvious it was a human. 

i feel like a jack wagon thinking it was an animal that did this now that im looking at all of it with a clearer picture lolol was more focused on indentifying the fish lol

Real dick move. Smallie, does not look like jaw would extend behind his eye if mouth was closed. Looks recent. 

My fir.st thought when looking at it was, walleye 

The meat fishermen up north do the same thing with the gills.