Unattended fish will be eaten! - Striper Talk Striped Bass Fishing, Surfcasting, Boating

otherscott · 09-06-2008, 04:22 PM

Was fishing the Canal Friday night. Got a small keeper so I draged her up onto the rocks were I was keeping my gear. Measured the fish to be sure it was legal and continude to fish. Went back up the rocks to get more bait and I notice a hole in the side of the fish a just looked at 10 min. ago. Thought that it was odd I did'nt see that hole when I cought it. So I went back down the rocks to fish some more. Then I heard a noise behind me......So I turn on my headlight to high beem (sorry Scott). What the #@&*%$ there's a small critter eating my Fish! I started thowing rocks at the little #@$^%. He would not leave the fish alone. I had to bring the fish down to the edge of the canal to keep the little %$#@$# away!
I'm not sure what it was, Maybe a Mink or something like that. I've seen Rats befor but this was no Rat.

nklinesider · 09-06-2008, 04:55 PM

maybe a fisher cat? weve had a problem in southern RI in the last few years with them. angry little buggers

Mike P · 09-06-2008, 05:16 PM

Minks. They were transplanted years ago as someone's bright idea on how to control the rats. Minks love fish.

Supposedly, Hurricane Bob drowned a lot of them, but enough survived to keep them going.

tynan19 · 09-06-2008, 06:45 PM

I wonder why there is this sudden increase in Mink sightings? Seems to be getting a lot more attention than years past.

Frankiesurf · 09-06-2008, 07:06 PM

I was out in the water one day and hooked a blue really deep so I kept it. I bled it and laid it on the sandbar about 60 feet behind me. I continue fishing and look back and a gull is trying to pick it apart. Every 5 casts I had to turn around and cast my pencil up on the bar to deter the birds. those bastards. I eventually used a spare leader as a stringer and hooked it to my belt. Man did my wife love that when I came home.

t.orlando · 09-06-2008, 07:22 PM

Saw my first mink down there this year, after about 12yrs of fishing there.

Squid kids Dad · 09-06-2008, 07:37 PM

Funny thing...I have noticed a lot more rabbits around this year..Actually before this year I havent seen any for about 5 or 6 years

hardbait · 09-06-2008, 07:40 PM

I HAD A MINK ABOUT A MONTH AGO AT POLE 155.IT WAS NOT AFRAID OF ME.WAS AROUND ME FOR AN HOUR. GOT WITHIN 3 ' OF ME.LOOKS LIKE A SMALL RIVER OTTER.

CanalGuy · 09-06-2008, 10:28 PM

Sorry, I was hungry Tedeschi's was closed!

stripersnipr · 09-07-2008, 07:08 AM

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Originally Posted by Karl F

tynan.. if there is less predator activity they will take over... minks.. are kinda like rabbits... if you can count 2

.. there will soon be more... if there are less things to thin the herd... 'yotes for example... they will thrive...

i have noticed a LOT less 'yotes on my end of the cape lately... don't know what's up with that... but have noticed that the rabbits are back in full force and other small critters that have been amongst the missing in the past few years, when the 'yotes were more prevalant.

Same deal in my area of Plymouth. I went 11 1/2 years without seeing a Rabbit. This year I've seen about 6. Something is changing.

Jimmy Fee · 09-07-2008, 09:21 AM

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Originally Posted by stripersnipr

Same deal in my area of Plymouth. I went 11 1/2 years without seeing a Rabbit. This year I've seen about 6. Something is changing.

A lot of that has to do with open season on coyotes. I think hunters took a pretty significant part of the population the past couple years, which would account for the increase in rabbits.

tynan19 · 09-07-2008, 05:41 PM

Karl, now that you mention it I did think to myself that I have seen an increase in rabbits even in my neck of the woods.

scotty · 09-08-2008, 04:34 PM

scott ,its good to see you found the site. to bed about your catch. give me a call well be heading out tue-fri. scott i found one of those plugs you where looking for .