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Title: Found this inside a lingcod, any ideas? Updated with Answers!!!! BUMP!!!!
Post by: h20hunter on June 09, 2010, 08:11:15 PM: So, caught a nice lingcod on Sunday and found this inside it while cleaning it. FYI, it was NOT in the stomach. It was located inside the gut cavity and in very good condition. Any ideas?
Title: Re: Found this inside a lingcod, any ideas?
Post by: Winchester670 on June 09, 2010, 08:11:57 PM: some sort of tracker? :dunno:
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Post by: runamuk on June 09, 2010, 08:12:48 PM: looks like a tracking device to me :dunno:
Title: Re: Found this inside a lingcod, any ideas?
Post by: Michelle_Nelson on June 09, 2010, 08:13:46 PM: That is what I was thinking. Some sort of tracking device?

Well if it is a tracking device someone is wondering what that thing is doing walking around on dry land. :chuckle:
Title: Re: Found this inside a lingcod, any ideas?
Post by: h20hunter on June 09, 2010, 08:14:52 PM: I figured the men in ninja suits would descend from the black helicopters for fish and chips but no visitors yet. Feels solid and not very heavy.
Title: Re: Found this inside a lingcod, any ideas?
Post by: washelkhntr on June 09, 2010, 08:15:56 PM: Open that sucker up and find out whats inside it.
Title: Re: Found this inside a lingcod, any ideas?
Post by: h20hunter on June 09, 2010, 08:17:48 PM: No seams? Just hack it open?
Title: Re: Found this inside a lingcod, any ideas?
Post by: washelkhntr on June 09, 2010, 08:19:03 PM: That's what I would do, just break it appart. But then again, I like breaking things.
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Post by: rasbo on June 09, 2010, 08:19:24 PM: me paranoid,call our gov and let her open it
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Post by: carpsniperg2 on June 09, 2010, 08:20:19 PM: seems like a tracking device to me i would hack it open but becare full it could have some type of drugs in it :dunno: weird to de in the guts insted of just inside the body :dunno:
Title: Re: Found this inside a lingcod, any ideas?
Post by: washelkhntr on June 09, 2010, 08:21:28 PM: Maybe it is the 2010 draw results. :chuckle:
Title: Re: Found this inside a lingcod, any ideas?
Post by: Jamieb on June 09, 2010, 08:22:11 PM: I'd call WDFG and ask if they are putting some kind of tracking in Ling's. You might get some reward for returning it.
Title: Re: Found this inside a lingcod, any ideas?
Post by: Jamieb on June 09, 2010, 08:22:50 PM: Quote from: Jamieb on June 09, 2010, 08:22:11 PM
I'd call WDFG and ask if they are putting some kind of tracking in Ling's. You might get some reward for returning it.
get a hammer and open it now
Title: Re: Found this inside a lingcod, any ideas?
Post by: rasbo on June 09, 2010, 08:24:09 PM: Quote from: washelkhntr on June 09, 2010, 08:21:28 PM
Maybe it is the 2010 draw results. :chuckle:
:chuckle: :chuckle:
Title: Re: Found this inside a lingcod, any ideas?
Post by: dirty24d on June 09, 2010, 08:27:08 PM: I would email wdfw the picture first. could get a nice reward. free lifetime fishing hunting licenses with tags??!!! probably not but hey u never know.
Title: Re: Found this inside a lingcod, any ideas?
Post by: h20hunter on June 09, 2010, 08:27:48 PM: Standby, pics loading, Cut that Biotch right in half.
Title: Re: Found this inside a lingcod, any ideas?
Post by: MikeWalking on June 09, 2010, 08:28:48 PM: Is it designed to be opened? Screwdriver slot? etc...Gotta be a tracking device. Whomever put it in there must have known there was a chance it would be caught. Where did you catch it?
Title: Re: Found this inside a lingcod, any ideas?
Post by: runamuk on June 09, 2010, 08:29:38 PM: Quote from: h20hunter on June 09, 2010, 08:27:48 PM
Standby, pics loading, Cut that Biotch right in half.

you are brave that could have been a suicide cod ;)
Title: Re: Found this inside a lingcod, any ideas?
Post by: h20hunter on June 09, 2010, 08:31:00 PM: Caught on south end of whidbey, smooth case, clear solid center, obvious electronics inside. You would think it was Draw Results it would have a different label. ;) If it was WDFW wouldn't you think it would have a label also?
Title: Re: Found this inside a lingcod, any ideas?
Post by: h20hunter on June 09, 2010, 08:31:48 PM: You can kind of see the clear solid material in the pics. Spooky.....
Title: Re: Found this inside a lingcod, any ideas?
Post by: runamuk on June 09, 2010, 08:32:34 PM: looks like a tracking device....you may have just made it impossible to retrieve any data it might have collected :dunno: :dunno:
Title: Re: Found this inside a lingcod, any ideas?
Post by: MikeWalking on June 09, 2010, 08:33:28 PM: Might have been Canadian? You may have just started the Great Ling Cod War!! :o :o :chuckle: :chuckle:
Title: Re: Found this inside a lingcod, any ideas?
Post by: h20hunter on June 09, 2010, 08:34:03 PM: Yes, I may have. However, Mr. Lingcod is no more so nothing left to track........Right?
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Post by: rasbo on June 09, 2010, 08:35:34 PM: 11,10 ,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1, :yike:
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Post by: bow4elk on June 09, 2010, 08:36:27 PM: Looks like the work of the lingcod bomber to me.
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Post by: washelkhntr on June 09, 2010, 08:36:40 PM: Now you did it.... I see an alien abduction in your future.
Title: Re: Found this inside a lingcod, any ideas?
Post by: h20hunter on June 09, 2010, 08:37:41 PM: Damn lingcod bomber. Also, I have done some google searching and can't come up with the "1040901" number anywhere close to fish. Also, can't find a single study by searching all the key words involved.
Title: Re: Found this inside a lingcod, any ideas?
Post by: MikeWalking on June 09, 2010, 08:38:50 PM: Quote
Yes, I may have. However, Mr. Lingcod is no more so nothing left to track........Right?

Except the signal died at your place..tick tick tick tick.... I hear Canadian Napalm smells like Maple syrup...
Title: Re: Found this inside a lingcod, any ideas?
Post by: h20hunter on June 09, 2010, 08:40:51 PM: I like pancakes. You all can see the pesky fish on my post in the fishing section. I'm the fat a** with the Butler tshirt and beard. Looks like a regular 'ol ling to me. Tasted normal also.
Title: Re: Found this inside a lingcod, any ideas?
Post by: dirty24d on June 09, 2010, 08:41:20 PM: Probably some type of telemetry equpiment. But I've never heard of internally applying trackers.
Title: Re: Found this inside a lingcod, any ideas?
Post by: dirty24d on June 09, 2010, 08:43:57 PM: standard tracker
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Post by: predatorpro on June 09, 2010, 08:44:49 PM: looks expensive, if the government paid for it they probly spent $30,000 on it
Title: Re: Found this inside a lingcod, any ideas?
Post by: Jamieb on June 09, 2010, 08:52:30 PM: I did a little search, theres been a lot of research and tracking lingcod in AK and along the east side of Vancouver island.
Heres a example.
http://fishbull.noaa.gov/913/yamanaka.pdf (http://fishbull.noaa.gov/913/yamanaka.pdf)
Title: Re: Found this inside a lingcod, any ideas?
Post by: dirty24d on June 09, 2010, 08:54:37 PM: googling stuff on sonar transmitters and stuff looks like they have abunch that measure salinity water temp depths, pressures etc.
Title: Re: Found this inside a lingcod, any ideas?
Post by: dirty24d on June 09, 2010, 08:57:24 PM: maybe strapped to a crab that the ling ate!!!
Title: Re: Found this inside a lingcod, any ideas?
Post by: h20hunter on June 09, 2010, 09:06:28 PM: Well, sent an email off to our good friends at WDFW. They may know something. They also may be upset if I wasn't supposed to have cut it in half and it was important. Oh well.....not like they have screwed the pooch on anything lately.
Title: Re: Found this inside a lingcod, any ideas?
Post by: predatorpro on June 09, 2010, 09:08:25 PM: Quote from: h20hunter on June 09, 2010, 09:06:28 PM
Well, sent an email off to our good friends at WDFW. They may know something. They also may be upset if I wasn't supposed to have cut it in half and it was important. Oh well.....not like they have screwed the pooch on anything lately.
hunting license cost enough they will have money to buy another
Title: Re: Found this inside a lingcod, any ideas?
Post by: yelp on June 09, 2010, 09:10:03 PM: It looks like an acoustic transmitter tag. Maybe used to track Ling populations. There are so many different fisheries groups, colleges agencies, countries that conduct these types of studies.

Pretty neat find.

Check out these links..

http://sanjuansportsman.com/features.aspx (http://sanjuansportsman.com/features.aspx)

http://www.fish.washington.edu/research/publications/ms_phd/Beaudreau_A_PhD_Sp09.pdf (http://www.fish.washington.edu/research/publications/ms_phd/Beaudreau_A_PhD_Sp09.pdf)
Title: Re: Found this inside a lingcod, any ideas?
Post by: MikeWalking on June 09, 2010, 09:18:01 PM: Quote
maybe strapped to a crab that the ling ate!!!

It was in the body cavity, not the stomach.
Title: Re: Found this inside a lingcod, any ideas?
Post by: lokidog on June 09, 2010, 09:33:44 PM: I think I read that there was a $1000 reward for the return of those things, intact..... :yike:
Title: Re: Found this inside a lingcod, any ideas?
Post by: Dansk on June 09, 2010, 09:35:44 PM: That thar looks like a Vemco V-9 transmitter. Could have been used by any one of hundreds of organizations to study lings and other groundfish. You'd be surprised how many groups use this stuff. NOAA, UW Fisheries, WDFW, Skippers, etc. etc.

http://www.vemco.com/pdf/v9_cont.pdf (http://www.vemco.com/pdf/v9_cont.pdf)
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Post by: predatorpro on June 09, 2010, 09:37:11 PM: Quote from: lokidog on June 09, 2010, 09:33:44 PM
I think I read that there was a $1000 reward for the return of those things, intact..... :yike:
what about $500 for each half?
Title: Re: Found this inside a lingcod, any ideas?
Post by: Wea300mag on June 09, 2010, 09:43:44 PM: Quote from: Dansk on June 09, 2010, 09:35:44 PM
That thar looks like a Vemco V-9 transmitter. Could have been used by any one of hundreds of organizations to study lings and other groundfish. You'd be surprised how many groups use this stuff. NOAA, UW Fisheries, WDFW, Skippers, etc. etc.

http://www.vemco.com/pdf/v9_cont.pdf (http://www.vemco.com/pdf/v9_cont.pdf)

I think we have a winner.
Title: Re: Found this inside a lingcod, any ideas?
Post by: Tony 270WSM on June 09, 2010, 09:44:16 PM: A buddy of mine found and returned one like that last year and got a cool $1k for it.

just kidding :chuckle:
Title: Re: Found this inside a lingcod, any ideas?
Post by: KINGWOODROW on June 09, 2010, 10:54:52 PM: Quote from: runamuk on June 09, 2010, 08:29:38 PM
Quote from: h20hunter on June 09, 2010, 08:27:48 PM
Standby, pics loading, Cut that Biotch right in half.

you are brave that could have been a suicide cod ;)

It could have been Osama Lingcodden??? :chuckle: :chuckle:
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Post by: Lincoln4 on June 09, 2010, 11:00:58 PM: :mgun:
Title: Re: Found this inside a lingcod, any ideas?
Post by: KINGWOODROW on June 09, 2010, 11:03:18 PM: 1st post, sorry couldnt resist... appologies for the sub-par paint shop job ;)
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Post by: fishermanjoe on June 09, 2010, 11:16:20 PM: I think that might be a tracking device related to the little strips of metal put in the snout of salmon. I think it is bigger because of the species. They are not gps trackers, they have a number encoded in them to tell researchers where, when, and how big it was when it was tagged. Maybe it was a planted ling, never herd of planting cod but it is a possibility.
Title: Re: Found this inside a lingcod, any ideas?
Post by: runamuk on June 10, 2010, 07:50:42 AM: Quote from: KINGWOODROW on June 09, 2010, 10:54:52 PM
Quote from: runamuk on June 09, 2010, 08:29:38 PM
Quote from: h20hunter on June 09, 2010, 08:27:48 PM
Standby, pics loading, Cut that Biotch right in half.

you are brave that could have been a suicide cod ;)

It could have been Osama Lingcodden??? :chuckle: :chuckle:

that pic is almost as good as the bunny with a pancake :chuckle: :chuckle: nice....the great lingcod war now has a leader
Title: Re: Found this inside a lingcod, any ideas?
Post by: h20hunter on June 10, 2010, 10:35:27 AM: Just got word back from Vemco. This is their product and was shipped to somebody in Seattle. She is fwding my email and the researcher may be contacting me. Hope they got what they needed before I cut it open.
Title: Re: Found this inside a lingcod, any ideas? Updated with Answers!!!!
Post by: h20hunter on June 10, 2010, 02:11:03 PM: So, here is the final word. I have been in contact via email with Kelly of NOAA Fisheries. This fish was tagges in Sept of 2008 in the same area. We caught it 21 months later and it had grown 10 inches. Here is a pic of the fish in case you haven't seen it.
Title: Re: Found this inside a lingcod, any ideas? Updated with Answers!!!!
Post by: lokidog on June 10, 2010, 10:06:45 PM: Cool, did they tell you what information the tag was collectingt? 10" in less than two years, good growth rate.
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Post by: carpsniperg2 on June 10, 2010, 10:12:43 PM: yeah thats cool kinda like a bird band :chuckle: did you ask him how much he would buy it back from you for :chuckle:
Title: Re: Found this inside a lingcod, any ideas? Updated with Answers!!!!
Post by: h20hunter on June 11, 2010, 07:18:52 AM: I didn't ask for $ or if they wanted it back. I kind of cut it in half......
Title: Re: Found this inside a lingcod, any ideas? Updated with Answers!!!!
Post by: 1morebuck on June 11, 2010, 09:48:12 AM: Yes, I would call Dave Ware (wdfw) and tell him about it. But then again, he will just tell you to call the tribes because the WDFW cannot do its own research anymore, it is all given to the tribes to decide if there are any fish left!
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Post by: Alchase on June 11, 2010, 01:18:57 PM: So probed by NOAA,
that explains why the turn blue! :DOH:
Title: Re: Found this inside a lingcod, any ideas? Updated with Answers!!!! BUMP!!!!
Post by: h20hunter on May 02, 2013, 12:03:41 PM: Just giving this a bump for all you lingcod guys. What made me think of it was in this month Northwest Sportsman they used the same pic again. Kind of a fun story.
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Post by: Alchase on May 02, 2013, 01:01:32 PM: Why do all those tracking devices look like suppositories :dunno:

Um, never mind :yike:
Title: Re: Found this inside a lingcod, any ideas? Updated with Answers!!!! BUMP!!!!
Post by: h20hunter on May 02, 2013, 01:09:16 PM: Sorry....you apparently know more about that type of thing than I do.....
Title: Re: Found this inside a lingcod, any ideas? Updated with Answers!!!! BUMP!!!!
Post by: Alchase on May 03, 2013, 11:49:11 AM: :DOH:

LOL
Title: Re: Found this inside a lingcod, any ideas? Updated with Answers!!!! BUMP!!!!
Post by: ckr on May 03, 2013, 12:21:27 PM: It's a tag from a hatchery ling. look at page 123 in the regs and it tells you how to call
Title: Re: Found this inside a lingcod, any ideas? Updated with Answers!!!! BUMP!!!!
Post by: Greenhorn on May 03, 2013, 12:40:14 PM: Cool find!
Title: Re: Found this inside a lingcod, any ideas? Updated with Answers!!!! BUMP!!!!
Post by: Buckmark on May 03, 2013, 01:06:18 PM: Quote from: ckr on May 03, 2013, 12:21:27 PM
It's a tag from a hatchery ling. look at page 123 in the regs and it tells you how to call
You are assuming that H20 can read mind you, and if he can that he actually would read the regs... :chuckle:
Title: Re: Found this inside a lingcod, any ideas? Updated with Answers!!!! BUMP!!!!
Post by: h20hunter on May 03, 2013, 01:09:16 PM: I reed jus fin think yuo bery mich!
Title: Re: Found this inside a lingcod, any ideas? Updated with Answers!!!! BUMP!!!!
Post by: NGOWENS on May 08, 2013, 08:51:49 AM: Hey Everyone, I was flipping through the regs this morning and found this on page 123 for Marine Area 13. It also had a picture of a unit they use, its the same as the one in this post.:

TAGGED LINGCOD IN PUGET SOUND
As part of a collaborative study to determine the costs and
benefits of lingcod stock enhancement, a small number
of hatchery-reared lingcod were released in South Puget
Sound. A small or large acoustic telemetry tag (see
picture) was implanted internally near the stomach.
If you encounter one of these lingcod, please save the
tag and contact Jon Lee at 360-871-8321, or email him at
Jon.Lee@noaa.gov.
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Post by: whitey on May 08, 2013, 09:08:09 AM: 007 Ling Cod, KGB connections. North Korea nuke. Hard saying all kinds of scarey stuff could be going on here.
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Post by: Kola16 on May 22, 2013, 10:46:05 PM: Where have I seen this pic before :chuckle: This was in Northwest Sportsman Magazine (or something like that).....
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Post by: C-Money on May 22, 2013, 10:55:57 PM: Cool story!! Thanks for digging this thread up! :tup: