A particular guide service I used to work for had 6 full time guides. We would wear rain jackets to throw the cast net each morning so we wouldnt be covered in scales and soaking wet when customers arrived. Every so often i would "find" a dead shad in the pocket of my rain jacket and i just wrote it off as sheer dumb luck that a shad would accidentally "fall" in to my pocket. But i realized after some time it only happened on the last day before i was planning to take a couple days off...a rain jacket in a 110 degree locker with a dead shad in the pocket is nuclear waste.
yes i did get my revenge, a slightly opened box of corn flakes left overnight in the floor of a boat + the herd of mischevious racoons that roam the docks at night at jtown make a mess that cant be cleaned up

but yes Geo, i can relate to your disgust with the forgotten fish....its horrible