People, man....
 

Did a little pike fishing today and came upon this. I mean who does that?

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It's a tribal ritual. I see it alot out here on the "D". They call themselves the HooDeFukarwe tribe. Stripers, catfish and huge trout hanging on trees and telephone poles. No joke. I'll post a pic next time.

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Pretty morbid sense of humor for whoever did that. I've hung carcasses and heads in private spaces but to do that publicly is odd. Kinda like a deer hunter leaving gut piles on public trails...

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Could have been dead when they found it and thought it would be funny to mount the head. but that's unlikely :(

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That ain't right man. Sportsmen should show more reverence to their kill, even if it is a fish.

The Native Americans believed their would be consequences from the spirit world for disrespecting their kill.

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Back in the 70's when my dad would catch a big fish that he kept he would clean it and cut off the head, heavily salt it and nail it to a tree in the woods. After a month or two he'd take it off and lacquer it and mount it. They actually came out pretty nice. The 9 lb bass he caught at Lake Gerard around 1974 graced our lake house wall for many years.

Perhaps someone was doing something similar.

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how can this be? wouldn't bears, raccoons and other critters eat the fish long before it had a chance to dry? if i left a salted fish in my backyard nailed to a tree it would be gone in 24 hours guaranteed

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I am guilty of leaving catfish carcasses nailed to trees on some of NJ's finest rivers. Skin em and fillet em! Not sure I would do it to a toothy critter, but hey, to each his own.

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That's just the thing, I've seen guys filet fish nailed to trees, sometimes they get left, oh well, something will eat it... This was a head on stake, no body, no guts on the ground, just a head chillen on a branch, I think it's terrible

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It never was an issue, not sure why. There were few if any bear around back then. Coons obviously, but they never bothered the fish heads. The flies had a field day but in the end the head was intact, if a bit shrunken.