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| I fish West Battle Lake in W. Central MN and a few weeks ago while walleye fishing I found a sick Muskie. This fish actually died and sank to the bottom of the lake after I snapped 2 quick pictures of it in the water. I never got the opportunity to take a closer look and I never touched the fish. I'm no expert, but I'm guessing it was in the upper 40's in size.
I now have pics of the fish and it was filled with tumors and such, but no apparent open wounds. Just curious if anyone has seen this....
Can anyone post pictures on here for others to view?
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Location: Mauston, Wisconsin | Chuck- you should be able to attach the photo's-just make sure they are less than 200k bytes. Go to your original posted message above & click on edit topic- when the new window opens- check the little box that says "Attach a file to this thread after posting?" Then hit submit and you should then gbe taken to a new window that will allow you to attach the files. Al Warner http://www.zaltnad.com
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Location: Battle Lake, MN | Thanks Al, I'll give it a try.
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Location: Des Plaines, IL | I have seen this type of "sickness". I was fishing in Cass Lake last fall and was on a dandy little lake and caught a Pike (42") that had the same type of tumors on the top of it's head. I'm STILL waiting for my partner to give me a copies of the pic's we took(of the fish that is...).
That was the only time I encountered anything like that. If Eric ever gives me the set of pic's I will post them as well.
Tight Lines,
Karen
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Location: Northern Illinois | We were fishing Bone Lake one time and a fish kept splashing in an area. It was around 1 p.m. or so and we drove up to it and sure enough it was a musky. It had to be 40" if I had to guess. It had tumor like scars all over its body and it looked like it was going through a lot of pain. It was around 90 degrees out. I was wondering if the fish was just caught and couldn't handle the heat and was out of the water too long. Kinda stinks knowing that fish will never spawn again! But that is the life cycle. |
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| CMWD..Chronic Muskie Wasting Disease....better start an irradication zone in that area of the lake....WDNR would think that makes good sense! |
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