LynnF Posted July 3, 2007 Posted July 3, 2007 I don't have a prize to give away, like a new TFO rod and reel say, but if you can guess what this is, I'll tell the story behind it. Quote
LynnF Posted July 3, 2007 Author Posted July 3, 2007 Nope. Hey....this post could make me the new FFC postwhore if this keeps up! Quote
admin Posted July 3, 2007 Posted July 3, 2007 Wow, that is pretty sick looking. It looks like a Whitetail Doe. Quote
LynnF Posted July 3, 2007 Author Posted July 3, 2007 so much for my postwhore aspirations Yep...it was a deer. It was on the OMR....or rather in the OMR. Funny thing was that I walked either on it or around it going upstream to a pool and never noticed it at all. You could see the ribs but they just looked like funny rocks what with the wind blowing and distorting the water. But when I was upstream fishing, Mike was downstream and yelled at me to come down to where he was. When I saw what he was pointing at from the direction I was coming from, it was crystal clear what it was. To me anyways - he thought it was a cow. Anyways, I found it kind of eerie...sat down on a rock and just stared at it and wondered how it came to be there. Did it die on a dry bank and the river came up and over it? Did it drown accidentally? Did a bear kill it and drag it to the river? I wondered for quite a while until I realized it was really quite sick and went back to fishing. The dead deer fishing kharma musta got me because I never caught anything after that. Could be that I was a little distracted after that. Quote
Maximum Posted July 3, 2007 Posted July 3, 2007 Weird, probably loaded the water with "nutrients" in that area! Quote
Guest bigbadbrent Posted July 3, 2007 Posted July 3, 2007 Theres one just like that on the bow at southland, in that side channel..thought it was a tree, till i got closer Quote
Brownstone Posted July 4, 2007 Posted July 4, 2007 Nasty, Ive stumbled across lots of dead animals beavers,dogs,cats..but that deer would take the cake...I just don;t want to find a body is all...i really really don;t... Quote
esleech Posted July 4, 2007 Posted July 4, 2007 I know...I hate coming across big logjams...and expecting to see a decomposing body underneath...It would completely ruin my week. Quote
Weedy1 Posted July 4, 2007 Posted July 4, 2007 Well since we’re on such an enlightening topic I thought I would throw this one out there. I don’t have the answer but have always wondered what it was. Quote
regdunlop Posted July 4, 2007 Posted July 4, 2007 Real happy thread here! There is a carcass just like that deer in the Livingston as well right now. I keep catching trout from the pool its in though so it doesn't bother me that much! And here is a picture of another carcass on the Bow near Canmore that I found in the spring. Elk maybe? Quote
Guest bigbadbrent Posted July 4, 2007 Posted July 4, 2007 I'm sure some of us had the wonderful experience of the Dead Cat Corner 2 winters ago on the bow...that was soooo gross Quote
birchy Posted July 4, 2007 Posted July 4, 2007 Well since we’re on such an enlightening topic I thought I would throw this one out there. I don’t have the answer but have always wondered what it was. I'm pretty sure that's Chewbacca. Poor guy. Quote
SteveM Posted July 4, 2007 Posted July 4, 2007 Well since we’re on such an enlightening topic I thought I would throw this one out there. I don’t have the answer but have always wondered what it was. Sob!Waaaaaaah! My poor,poor Poochiekins!! Where did you find him, Weedy? I'd recognize that face anywhere! That's the exact same expression he had the day he bit my left man-onion. I've always wondered how far he flew when I punted him. Quote
SanJuanWorm Posted July 4, 2007 Posted July 4, 2007 You shoulda put a sign on that dog before the photo that reads "free dog" Quote
cdock Posted July 4, 2007 Posted July 4, 2007 Yuck! I have a similar story on the Highwood that involves some stink. I was approaching a hole and caught a wiff of brutal odor. I couldn't figure out what it was. Eventually it passed. I worked down the hole again and it came back. I figured whatever it was was between the top and bottom of the hole so I kept my eyes open. I looked down and I was standing directly on a cow that was caught in a small tree and from the flooding was covered in sand, rocks, etc. It was so disgusting. My boots had maggots on them and the stench suddenly became unbearable knowing what it was. And yes it was also disturbing. So I went to the next hole. Quote
Guest rusty Posted July 4, 2007 Posted July 4, 2007 There was a big dead rotting llama just below the llamas d/s of Police last spring. The stench was just unreal. And you wonder why you shouldn't drink untreated water...you never know what's around the upstream bend. Quote
Maximum Posted July 4, 2007 Posted July 4, 2007 I know...I hate coming across big logjams...and expecting to see a decomposing body underneath...It would completely ruin my week. That's still my biggest worry fishing is stumbling across that. BTW, they've still only found one of the two guys who drowned going over the weir...... Quote
LynnF Posted July 4, 2007 Author Posted July 4, 2007 ICK ICK ICK!!! Don't even wanna know about dead cat corner - probably something DD created I seriously fear the day I am floating down the river and come across a body....which is a total reality this year with that one guy still missing from the ill-fated rafting trip earlier this year. Or that baby that that woman tossed in there a few years ago. That'd be just about the most awful thing ever. I even get grossed out when I see big dead fish on the bottom of the river. That poor dog..... Quote
clarki Posted July 4, 2007 Posted July 4, 2007 I keep looking at that pic of a "dog" and I keep looking at my house cats and i think we have a feline of some kind?? check out the length of the whiskers and the flattish skull. to me it has very cat like features. weedy1 how big/small was this carcass? anyone else think thats cat-like? stepped into a deer carcass on the elbow, gagged a few times on that dead cow in that guys yard just down of the pink bridge, tripped over an antler sticking out of the sand along the oldman it was still attached to the body that was buried in the sediment, and came across a dead bighorn ewe in the gap a couple years back. later M Quote
Harps Posted July 4, 2007 Posted July 4, 2007 This moose didn't get along very well this winter with the ATV/snowmachine bridge. Creek full of cutts... would have been great to fish a maggot pattern downstream if this was later in the spring/summer. Quote
fishfreak Posted July 4, 2007 Posted July 4, 2007 This has to be one of the grossest threads on a flyfishing board ever.... But I keep looking! Quote
Harps Posted July 4, 2007 Posted July 4, 2007 This was one of the worst carcasses... Found it in a Grizzly Den on the Arctic Slope. The Grizzly was coming around the bend... I had jumped out of the helicopter to look at a pair of dead caribou calves... fell through the snow into a den in the bank, found a cow caribou and scrambled back to the copter. Didn't complete a necropsy on that one, but we figured a grizzly got her. Great grayling fishing in the rivers... Quote
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