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Was fishing in hidden falls park on Sunday-3 hours and no fish. But I hooked into something big and was disgusted once I dragged it on shore. I had hooked a dead flathead in the mouth but the disturbing thing was that it was on a stringer. About 30 inches long and half rotten. Some guy must have had it on a stringer maybe let the rope go when DNR came by-maybe? It's a Catch and Release zone so I didn't expect this.

I guess I did catch a fish that night :-)

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I was fortunately unfortunate enough to come upon a stringer about a year ago on the miss just north of the 694 bridge. I say fortunately because the fish were all alive and I was able to release them.

I am not surprised anymore what I see at the river or even any of the small streams I have been fishing the past year.

I figure if I bring a bag and clean what I can, even if the fishing is dismal I can go home feeling some sense of accomplishment...

As far as the C&R of Pool 2, that's only for walleye, sauger, smallmouth & largemouth bass.

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That is disgusting.

I dont fish Catfish so I dont know but Im pretty sure that it is C & R for only eyes, bass, pike, etc.. not really for panfish or catfish. Mabye the big SOB just ripped the stringer off the boat or the shore.

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Yeah I'm not sure its illegal to keep a 30" catfish. I know pool 2 is CPR for walleye, bass and pike only. The only way the catfish was illegal is if there is a slot I am unaware of which is possible since i'm not a cat guy.

Fishing from shore on pool 2 you do need to keep your eyes open in hopes of keeping people honest though. Every year i come across someone keeping illegal fish and most know the rules since if they see a sherrif or DNR boat come by they all pack up in a hurry.

Whenever I see an illegal fish being kept I'll always let them know the rules. Even if they know the rules it lets them know someones watching them. More often then not they throw the fish back. Although I did see a group filling a bucket with smallies one day and they wouldn't throw them back. One of the guys I was fishing next to (I didn't know him but we were chatting while fishing) walked over and pretended to trip and kicked over the bucket to that the fish all landed back in the water. It was actually pretty funny to see him trying to sell it as an accident. He ended up saving 7-8 decent smallies that day.

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My bad, I thought pike were included. Guess not. Never seen anyone keep one out of there anyways. Only caught a couple myself.

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