I've stumbled upon many animal carcasses on my fishing trips that washed up on the shore: seagulls, ducks, carps, swan or crane (hard to tell ... was really big, white, feathery, and flat), frogs, etc.

One day, I came across this huge frog carcass ... I took a picture of it next to my standard sized frog lure.

What unusual carcasses have you come across?

I came across a dead bore hog's carcass one time but it had been decomposing for so long It took me a while just to figure out what it was.  I thought it was a chubacabra for a little while but then I figured out what it was.

When I lived in MN I came across a live loon that had fishing line all tangled in its wings and around its neck.  I tried to help it but of course I wasn't able to get to it cuz it didn't know I was going to help.  Anyway a week or so later on the opposite side of the lake I came across a Loon carcass with fishing line all tangled in its wings and around its neck.  Poor bird.  Wish I could have got a hold of it for a few minutes to cut it off.

Cliff

Not sure what your definition of a carcass is...but last year we found a mastodon jaw bone.

"chubacabra" -- LOL

mastodon jaw bone -- nice discovery!

Daniel, I remember that post.  Awesome find!

I once found a dead baby horse (I guess it would be a foal).  I wonder how long it will be until someone says they found a dead human.

Absolutely wow!  I must have missed the original post.  

Can you tell me a little detail about where you found that amazing fossil? Is that a huge discovery for that lake/fishing area or are people finding T-Rex legs and Velociraptor spines everywhere?

Cool stuff.

Not sure what your definition of a carcass is...but last year we found a mastodon jaw bone.

Here's the original post on the mastodon from last year.

http://www.bassresource.com/bass_fishing_forums/YaBB.pl?num=1220321183/0

It's a great find, but not as rare as a dinosaur. A local expert guessed it to be from a juvenile male, from about 10,000+ years ago. This spring I actually found a tusk to go along with it. But the tusk was less than 6 inches long...cool to be sure, but I was hoping for more

The university sent a few people out with metal rods to probe the ground around where we found it. They found a couple more bone chips, but not enough to justify the expense of digging up the area.

For now we just go out there a couple times a year, usually after a hard rain near the eroding bank and poke around. Maybe someday we'll find more.

did you get to keep it

Posted by: Daniel My Brother      Posted on: Yesterday at 11:12pm

Not sure what your definition of a carcass is...but last year we found a mastodon jaw bone.

nice find, thats simply amazing to say the least!

.....unfortunately,

the most unusual carcass i have come across was when i was in highschool.  My 2 pals and i were exploring new fishing territories in the Savannas (in jensen beach FL)... when we came across a nice pond/lake..... it was man made though, as the shape of it gave away...either way, not bad fishing.

near a drainage outlet we noticed something odd.....

so we went in for a closer inspection...

what we had originally noticed was a common blue tarp.

...

but wrapped in that tarp was a dead dog...

it looked like it was a large retriever or lab drowned inside, but was hard to tell...

that ended our day,

and we never returned to the spot.

..there truly are some deranged individuals out there

My dad and I were fishing Smith Mountain lake in the mid-eighties after some local flooding when we discovered a dead pig floating in the back of a cove.  

OK, I have to do it. I found more than one human. While stationed in Panama, I fished the canal, Gatun Lake, and areas surrounding the river. Common practice for the boats entering the canal was to dump their dead before the Panama Canal Commission Employees boarded the vessels. In turn, we got a number of floaters onto the beaches over my 4 years there. Unfortunately, this was heavily shark infested and many of the bodies found were mostly trunks  if they made it to shoreat all.  I only found one myself, close Ft Sherman, Panama, but as an MP, we got the call when others were found.

Plenty of stories to tell my grandkids!

Here's the original post on the mastodon from last year.

http://www.bassresource.com/bass_fishing_forums/YaBB.pl?num=1220321183/0

It's a great find, but not as rare as a dinosaur. A local expert guessed it to be from a juvenile male, from about 10,000+ years ago. This spring I actually found a tusk to go along with it. But the tusk was less than 6 inches long...cool to be sure, but I was hoping for more

The university sent a few people out with metal rods to probe the ground around where we found it. They found a couple more bone chips, but not enough to justify the expense of digging up the area.

For now we just go out there a couple times a year, usually after a hard rain near the eroding bank and poke around. Maybe someday we'll find more.

I missed this thread last year.  It was a busy time at work for me.  So here's a belated exclamation for you Daniel.  Wow!  I've never found anything that cool.  

Here's a carcass story that my grandpa used to tell.

Years ago when they were pouring the foundation for the Memorial Bridge over the Mississippi river in Quincy, a worker fell in. Since it was impossible to save the man they continued with the pour. When the forms were removed the sole of the man's shoe was visible above the water line. After some time the shoe disintegrated and my grandpa said you could pull your boat up to the bridge and pick at the bones in the man's feet.

is that the frog i bought you? haha. nice

We were fishing the Aleghehney river in Kittaning,Pa, we could see something on the lock, but couldn't make it until it rolled over the lock, it was a cow! That same day, I pulled in a bike frame.

Yeah, I knew it was some time before a someone posted their finding of dead human bodies.  I always read in the newspaper how fishermen often come cross the bodies of missing people.  I certainly hope I don't come across something that horrific.  

Sad to say that some the findings are left behinds of sadistic people.  

I often fish Stoney Creek Metropark where Tara Lynn Grant's body was scattered -- it's unnerving to say the least.  

Dave -- yes, that's the frog you got me.  Still haven't caught anything on it.