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Trevor Duran
1/18/2015 1:39:49 AM

Hey how come I can't select Otter as a species?! Haha last fishing trip was a weird one... Caught come carp and put them in a basket to use later for flatheads. We had one left in it over night and the otter wanted to have a snack so he went in the trap top and chewed on the carp that is in there.... Before long it needed to get air but couldn't so we found it dead in the morning like this!! Crazy

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Other Freshwater
Bartlett Reservoir

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Apparently carp was the bait
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    1. nowling 0
      Did you skin him out
    2. Trevor Duran 0
      Haha that's crazy and yeah that would be so awesome! It would have to be really deep here lol it would evaporate very quick here with temps easily reaching 115-120 ...more degrees @seaturtles
    3. Sean Wilms 0
      stock it with my own catches. Rain would fill it up and it would be as deep or as shallow as i make it
    4. Sean Wilms 0
      for to long. someday im gonna by some property in an area like where im living and im gonna dig my own pond out with a bulldozer. I think it would be the coolest ...more thing ever to have my own pond and
    5. Sean Wilms 0
      wow...pretty amazing how different two states can be. the water table is so high where im at that no houses have basements because they would be submerged. even ...more my garage sits in water when it rains
    6. Trevor Duran 0
      Haha that's awesome. We literally have 1 non man made lake in the whole state! And only a handful of native fish @seaturtles
    7. Sean Wilms 0
      sediment no body of water (except the ocean of course) is very deep at all
    8. Sean Wilms 0
      ya that's completely different than around me. Where i live the water table is only a couple feet into the ground so any ditch, hole, or depression is full of ...more water but because of all the runoff and
    9. Trevor Duran 0
      Rain. We don't have hardly any actual rivers that don't have dams all over them. Just big deep lakes. Some get over 200ft deep here lol @seaturtles
    10. Trevor Duran 0
      Yeah we mainly have reservoirs here and so the water levels fluctuate frequently. I think right now Bartlett is at 62% and it is still going down. Come May it will ...more be back to 100% Cuz of snow melt and
    11. Sean Wilms 0
      ya that would be a totally different kind of fishing then any i do around here. The deepest lakes, rivers, and inlets around me only get to 20-30ft at the deepest
    12. Trevor Duran 0
      carp basically only bite once it gets dark using light setups. Its tough here too but we kind of have a system down. This is the time for big fish and we haven't ...more had much of that compared to last year
    13. Trevor Duran 0
      Releasing these fish after being brought up from really deep water is they need to decompress or they will just float to the top belly up from gas in there stomach. ...more So you need to get them in slow @seaturtles
    14. Trevor Duran 0
      You are on the lake. I caught 2 in 50fow and one was in 60ft. Crazy how deep they are right now and in a couple months they will be very shallow. One really important ...more thing you need to know with
    15. Trevor Duran 0
      You definitely need to know what you're doing here. I don't even try much for other species Cuz it's so slow. Flats are only in the original River channel ...more which ranges from 45-70fow depending on where
    16. Sean Wilms 0
      ya im sure, winter sucks up where I am, it's hard to catch much of anything
    17. Trevor Duran 0
      Haha yup it wasn't too bad... Also caught another 12 and a 16lber the next night so it was still a very fun trip @seaturtles
    18. Sean Wilms 0
      nice! well then it was probably worth having to pull the dead otter out
    19. TennesseeTroutboy 0
      Wow that's wicked
    20. Trevor Duran 0
      Yeah it was good that night. I caught a 12lb flathead and broke off my 50lb leader on one! Still upset about that and had another carp get ripped off my hooks before ...more I could get to it! @seaturtles
    21. Sean Wilms 0
      was the fish at least still any good?
    22. Trevor Duran 0
      Yeah we were pretty freaked out. Fun part was getting the rock hard body out.... Lol @seaturtles
    23. Sean Wilms 0
      oh ok, pretty unfortunate...
    24. Trevor Duran 0
      That black top is a trap top so it's really easy to push down and get into it but it can't go up at all so he would have to pull it down some how then squeeze ...more through @seaturtles
    25. Sean Wilms 0
      im wondering how the poor guy got in their in the first place
    26. dylangtrue7 0
      @trevorfish yeah I had a turtle try brake into my basket
    27. Trevor Duran 0
      And we didn't have service to call Game and Fish
    28. Trevor Duran 0
      I didn't hunt them lol it went in the basket by itself and drowned some time in the night while we were sleeping. You definitely aren't allowed to hunt them ...more @dylangtrue7
    29. dylangtrue7 0
      oh never mind you hunted them
    30. dylangtrue7 0
      @trevorfish you wanted called game and fish aren't they a procted specie?
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