Wow! ! ! Great info Phill. I have also been curious about this. I'm always looking over my shoulder when I'm doing it.

It is great to hear about the Game Warden. I wish they were more accessible to answer questions like these. I don't remember what forum I used to be on, but there was a Game Warden that monitored the threads, and he would respond in cases like this.

Thanks again for the great explanation.

I have been wondering the same thing. I've literally thrown thousands of fish carcasses back in the lake over the past few years. I clean them on the dock and the
carcasses go back into the water. Two weekends ago while launching, a Denton county GW and i had a short discussion about this very topic. He said it is a very grey topic and could not give me an exact answer. He said that he, nor any of the other Denton GW's will hand out tickets for throwing fish back into the lake. There was a caveat though.. They would perhaps (not a definite) write a ticket if the fish are dumped into shallow enough water that they wash up on the shore. he pointed out a dead minnow ont he ground and told me that if he saw the perp that he would ahve issued a waste of bait as well as a littering ticket. the same could go if the fish carcasses all washed p on shore. that could potentially be littering.

What I took from it was that I am not breaching the law and I'll continue to throw the in the water. I'll make sure that the carcasses sink in deep water and should i see one on the shore from days prior I'll clean it so the public des not ahve to see dead fish on the shoreline.

Should anyone want to fact check my story please call Officer Spangler at 430-342-7067. He seems like a great GW.

I�d imagine they are supposed to stay intact until they reach their final destination.

For years, we had a great thing going at Lake Lewisville. The fishing barge had a great fish cleaning table with power and water. All was necessary was to filet the fish & drop the remains back in the water. Turtles, bream, catfish would then have a feast. The herons and egrets would station themselves on the roof & catch the remains when they hit the water. Seems like all the activity would be good for the lake. Then, suddenly the table was gone. The management said the GW or the Corps of Engineers had shut it down. We had a lot of angry fishermen after that.