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[Trout Slayer]

Witnessed somthing unusuall on the Vedder today, a guy waded out spey fishing notices somthing white sitting in the bottom of the river goes out to it and pulls out a dead 12lbs hatchery doe sitting in the bottom of the river. He pulls it out and says he is going to keep it, marks it on his license and calls it a day while his buddy keeps casting away. What are your thoughts on this???

[awurban@msn.com]

I think thats kind of gross lol Who knows why that fish is dead or how long its been there I mean I am sure it must of looked fresh otherwise he might not of taken it but either way I would never do that. The whole point of fishing is in the pull or grab of the fish not in just leaving with meat.

[Nitroholic]

gross

[alwaysfishn]

I personally wouldn't keep a dead fish I found, however what he did was legal. Perhaps he wanted it for the roe....

[BCfisherman97]

Not the best thing to read when eating.

[floatfisher]

Now he can say he got one on the spey rod I guess.

[Dennis.t]

Maybe it was released,and for whatever reason didn't survive.I once noticed a chrome fish lying on the bottom of the river by my feet while out fishing the Englishman river on Vancouver Island.It never entered my mind to retrieve it and call it a day. First time Ive ever heard of this.Once saw a gutted wild doe on the bank of the Vedd which was stripped of her roe. I was shocked to say the least.

[bbronswyk2000]

I wouldnt touch it. Legal? How is it legal? Doesnt it say in the regs somewhere that you must catch your fish?

I saw this happen before during pink season this year. I saw the natives bring in a haul. They dumped some dead males out into the river. A fisherman downstream took one out that looked fresh and kept it.

[floatfisher]

Technically he did catch it... He caught it with his hands.

[Pat AV]

Sounds like a typical spey guy, if they are not flossing or snagging you can usually find them messing around with carion. Those guys make me sick, and to top it off they are always with the "hollier than thou" attitude.

[nickredway]

LOL

[awurban@msn.com]

In the regs it says

"your licence entitles you to fish with or without a rod with a single line and a single barbless hook"

it says you can

*Do the above
*spear fish for non game fish
*set line for burbot
*Fish with downrigers
*Ice fish
*Trap Cray fish

all other methods of fishing are illegal

Its on Page 13 of the Regs.

[hue-nut]

Sounds like a typical spey guy, if they are not flossing or snagging you can usually find them messing around with carion. Those guys make me sick, and to top it off they are always with the "hollier than thou" attitude.

lol and to add to that, the spey guys are usually the ones who do this  because they have waded out to their nipples

[awurban@msn.com]

Sounds like a typical spey guy, if they are not flossing or snagging you can usually find them messing around with carion. Those guys make me sick, and to top it off they are always with the "hollier than thou" attitude.

I think I sense some sarcasm lol

[dennyman]

hmmm..nothing surprises me on the Vedder anymore.  During chum season if people haul in and keep a zombie salmon and say it is good for the smoker, then seeing a person take a dead fish from the bottom of the river shouldn't shock us that much.