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 What was it?
#35694
07/28/03 12:13 PM
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Sidelt67
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I was sitting out at the Brazos River outside of Mineral Wells a couple of nights ago. We were not fishing, just cooking out and drinking beer with some friends. This part of the river is does not move too fast, so there wasn't a lot of noise around. About midnight, I started catching a VERY strong smell of fish. I was a bit cinfused at first, but I went down to the bank and I could kind of make out a whole bunch of fish in a major feeding frenzy on the other side. The entire time they were surfacing, the smell of fish was extremely strong. It lasted about 20 minutes and then they were gone and so was the smell.
My question is, does anyone think these were sandies, or have any idea what that could have been? I just don't have any clue.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. Patton
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 Re: What was it?
#35695
07/28/03 02:48 PM
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LL
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Probably a school of sandies that had shad for dinner. The shad oil can be smelled for 100s of yards and you can sometimes see oil slicks.
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Re: What was it?
#35696
07/28/03 04:57 PM
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JTMAN
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You're right LL. It happens on the ocean as well. I've seen a "slick" after a bunch of sharks busted up a school of mullet. And the smell.....UGH!
JT
"Some were born to listen, some were born to play"
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Re: What was it?
#35697
07/29/03 01:03 PM
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Lovfldx
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In the Brazos, it could have been sandies, or stripers up from lake Granbury. The smell was in all likelihood the shad that were being dined on! No mistaking their "rotting fish" stench!
Rudy
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Re: What was it?
#35698
07/29/03 09:06 PM
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Goat Farmer
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If the smell was coming from the Brazos river it was probably a dead body.
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Re: What was it?
#35699
07/30/03 02:25 AM
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A Tracker
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I have fished the Brazos below the dam to the bridge during the trout stocking. When the huge carp show up in the shallows they can stink up the place. Especially if you catch one and that one night we caught thirty of them 24"-30"! I think a dead body would smell sweeter! LOL
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