Lost buck.....arrow smells like fish!!??
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From: Jasper
03-Nov-17
Shot a buck this morning broadside at 20 yards. Good, solid thump sound when I hit him. Waited an hour and started looking. Arrow had pretty good blood on it, brown and white hairs on the ground. No sign of a gut shot in spite of a few white hairs. Arrow did not smell like gut, but did smell like fish.....just like the shad spray fisherman use. Pretty good bright blood for 60 yards, then to drops every 10 yards until we lost it. 3 of us searched for hours with no luck. Not done looking though. What organ could have caused the shad smell? Arrow was not sticky and did not have any meat on it. No stomach matter on arrow or trail. Thanks
From: SixLomaz
03-Nov-17
It was a mermaid dressed as deer for halloween.
From: drycreek
03-Nov-17
I got nothing.....
From: Bou'bound
03-Nov-17
Are you sure he was not hit far back. Like maybe in the bass?
From: Glunt@work
03-Nov-17
Tough one. You likely hit the alosa sapidissima.
Seriously though I got nothing. Hope he turns up.
From: Glunt@work
03-Nov-17
From: Bowriter
03-Nov-17
You positive it was a buck?
From: Fulldraw1972
03-Nov-17
I have heard of something else smelling like fish but never an arrow after shot threw a buck.
From: Pigsticker
03-Nov-17
What was the deers reaction on hit? How did it run or walk off? Walk all drainages in the area and thickets. Many a wounded deer dies with its head in water.
From: kellyharris
03-Nov-17
Sounds like you shot a antlered doe with high testosterone
From: Deerplotter
03-Nov-17
There you go... if it smells like a fish obviously it will go to water!
From: Swampbuck
03-Nov-17
Bou, I spit Jim and Coke all over myself, LMAO!! Good one!
From: Matt Rehor
03-Nov-17
I shot a doe one time in front of the shoulder and a little low. I too smelled that fish smell on the arrow. Blood trail similar to what you described. Ironically I saw her about a week later and she was outa range for a shot. I’m not sure if she survived but my experience of pass through shots has odds not in their favor for survival,though they may live for a few months. Hope your search has a happy ending. Keep looking, you never know. Once you get to grips, get back out there, it’s that time of year.... it will be over before you know it!
From: notme
03-Nov-17
You sure it wasnt a doe and your arrow gave it a parting shot...are you hunting by an estuary?
From: Owl
03-Nov-17
Brisket
From: WV Mountaineer
03-Nov-17
Bou for the win
From: ahunter55
03-Nov-17
this. Rare & very tough to kill or even see.
From: Joey Ward
03-Nov-17
Agree with bou. Sounds like a crappie shot.
From: Brian M.
03-Nov-17
Doesn't sound like you hit him forward or back, probably right in the minnow.
From: elk yinzer
03-Nov-17
The deer had some kind of abcess or infection and you happened to hit there. Thats all I got, no internal organ I know of would do that.
From: Andrew W. Manukas
03-Nov-17
I really eel for you. Did it smell muskie at all??
From: Jasper
03-Nov-17
Shot a buck this morning broadside at 20 yards. Good, solid thump sound when I hit him. Waited an hour and started looking. Arrow had pretty good blood on it, brown and white hairs on the ground. No sign of a gut shot in spite of a few white hairs. Arrow did not smell like gut, but did smell like fish.....just like the shad spray fisherman use. Pretty good bright blood for 60 yards, then to drops every 10 yards until we lost it. 3 of us searched for hours with no luck. Not done looking though. What organ could have caused the shad smell? Arrow was not sticky and did not have any meat on it. No stomach matter on arrow or trail. Thanks
From: Martin Man
03-Nov-17
I have done the same thing with the same smell. The shot was low. Never hit any organs.
From: Bowriter
04-Nov-17
I believe Bou and I would rather enjoy sharing a campfire. My first thought was Pigsticker was using his scrape freshener in the area. Second, I thought, it must be some sort of interuterine hit. Then, I thought, I can see this one getting us all sued for sexual hairassment.
From: Pigsticker
04-Nov-17
Bowriter, never did I say that I hunt scrapes. I used to read you a lot but 30 years ago but technology took over. Hell, I remember when chuck Adams gun hunted.
On this one I was back of liver in front of diaphragm. Very little info.
I may take a picture of big public land buck today since all I have is a doe tag. Got my two brothers on the prime stands.
I wish Jasper would come with more information on the search.
From: scentman
04-Nov-17
Brother killed a buck some yrs ago and he smelled like you describe... meat turned out bad, I think he was issued another buck tag.
From: Jasper
04-Nov-17
No luck finding the deer. Crazy. And all you wise guys can hop up on a perch and kiss my bass! lol
From: Bowriter
04-Nov-17
I wish y'all would quit carping on this fishue.
From: Busta'Ribs
05-Nov-17
Reminds me of my youth, when I followed 3 important rules.
If it smells like fish, do as you wish, if it smells like chicken, give it a lickin, but if it smells like cologne, leave it alone...
Sorry you didn't find him.
From: osage
05-Nov-17
Are you sure it wasn't your mustache you were smellin' ?
