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To date I have probably lost about 35 cat fish in the range of 9 to 10 pounds. The neighbor hears large splashing in the pond about 1 A.M. quite often. I am losing all most all large cat fish. There have been a few bream that died. The fish do not show any wounds on most. I have ordered two large traps to put out to see if I have a animal in the pond. Long time ago I saw a animal and it disappeared quickly. I at first thought it was lack of aeration, but after I started it up my loss of catfish continued.
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Sounds like you have a varmint.
I don't think catfish struggle enough to make noise when dying from low DO or toxins.
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Buried one more large cat fish yesterday.
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Did you get all the rain recently ? Five to ten inches in your area.
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What do you think it is Deaner, do you have otters in your neck of the woods? Can you borrow a game camera from someone?
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We have had lots of rain and my pond over flow has received a good work out. Some one said if it is a animal you would get one shot and after that no shots. I saw the animal once and could not get my gun up quick enough for a shot. It appeared to be a beaver or muskrat, it was fast. No marks on the dead fish which is different.
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I have lost 37 large cat fish in the range of 10 pounds each. I have two traps, conear I think is the name. This should prove to be interesting. Probably will not get the traps set for 2 more days, croup-crude or whatever.
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As of today the count is 38 dead large cat fish. Hope to set traps tomorrow.
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