Dead Deer in lake

wynndog · 09-26-2014, 08:33 PM

Who can tell me what fish (except piranha), can devour a deer carcass like the animals on land?

jkjoshuatree · 09-27-2014, 03:09 PM

...given enough time any number of fish could devour it.

On the documentary "Planet Earth", over the course of a year (forget the exact amount of time) fish and eels ate an entire gray whale.

wynndog · 09-27-2014, 06:31 PM

I don't think a whale has hair. I've seen in the woods nothing left but a couple bones,which hunters said would be eaten also.

JasonG · 09-30-2014, 08:51 PM

About 10 years ago I was coming up slowly in Meredith Bay in our boat toward the town docks when my wife noticed a deer swimming across a wide part of the bay.

Then we noticed the Mt Washington about 1/2 mile behind us, headed toward the deer. Really no way to know if the captain would have seen that small deer head at a dusky time moving slowly across the day. So we positioned ourselves between the deer and the mount to prevent a collision.

glennsteely · 10-01-2014, 01:04 PM

You are a brave soul.....I would have let the deer take its chances.....I wouldn't tangle with The Mount at operational speed....that deer would have been on it's own!!

bt99 · 10-01-2014, 07:11 PM

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Originally Posted by wynndog

Who can tell me what fish (except piranha), can devour a deer carcass like the animals on land?

There's also some good size snapping turtles in the lake. Had the nieces and nephews up one weekend this summer. They came running up off the dock, saying they saw a monster in the lake. When I got down to the dock, didn't see anything. About a month later, I was fishing off the dock, when I looked down, there was a large snapping turtle passing under the dock. It came up for air along side the boat. Side to side the shell was more than 24".

Good thing the kids weren't in the water when that thing came swimming by.

webmaster · 10-11-2014, 07:36 AM

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jkjoshuatree Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Bear Island Posts: 642 Thanks: 349 Thanked 145 Times in 77 Posts	Wynndog... ...given enough time any number of fish could devour it. On the documentary "Planet Earth", over the course of a year (forget the exact amount of time) fish and eels ate an entire gray whale. __________________ Dream out loud.

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glennsteely Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Mantua, N.J. Posts: 472 Thanks: 90 Thanked 111 Times in 38 Posts	JasonG..... You are a brave soul.....I would have let the deer take its chances.....I wouldn't tangle with The Mount at operational speed....that deer would have been on it's own!! __________________ You have to go out on a limb sometimes, cause that is where the fruit is. You can't get to the fruit from that nice safe spot, clinging to the trunk of the tree......

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09-26-2014, 08:33 PM	#1
wynndog Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2013 Location: Alton Posts: 98 Thanks: 170 Thanked 10 Times in 7 Posts	Who can tell me what fish (except piranha), can devour a deer carcass like the animals on land?

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wynndog Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2013 Location: Alton Posts: 98 Thanks: 170 Thanked 10 Times in 7 Posts	I don't think a whale has hair. I've seen in the woods nothing left but a couple bones,which hunters said would be eaten also.

09-30-2014, 08:51 PM	#4
JasonG Senior Member Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 310 Thanks: 48 Thanked 45 Times in 33 Posts	About 10 years ago I was coming up slowly in Meredith Bay in our boat toward the town docks when my wife noticed a deer swimming across a wide part of the bay. Then we noticed the Mt Washington about 1/2 mile behind us, headed toward the deer. Really no way to know if the captain would have seen that small deer head at a dusky time moving slowly across the day. So we positioned ourselves between the deer and the mount to prevent a collision.

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