Brian...I'm totally stumped - what an interesting story! No way the muskrat could have been reduced to bare bone in that amount of time...no way a fish could chew a hole into plastic that thick IMO.

Turtles...maybe. Muskrat bones were already in the bottom of the pond and when you pulled up the raft it drug them up with it?

Feasible explanation?

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after. ~ Henry David Thoreau

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