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Location: Downers Grove, IL | took this picture of a fish on LOTW. never seen anything like it......have you??? thought it might have been caused from poor handling or maybe some type of infections. let me know what you think.
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Location: Algonquin, ILL | Matt, Congrats on a great trip to Sab, Looks like it mat have flopped around the bottom of a boat at one time or possibly multiple hand holds for a pic. How big is that fish?
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Location: Hugo, MN | I think that's a fungus or something, whatever it is it's NASTY! |
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Location: Ames, Iowa | Looks like old prop damage that has become infected. Note how it goes down one side of the fish, alternating with similar distance between each site. We saw similar photo in a previous thread maybe 6 weeks ago.
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Location: Minneapolis, MN | Could it be a very bad case of Muskie Pox AKA Piscirickettsia?
Here's a link with some pictures of it: http://www.muskie-lures.com/rocketman/piscirickettsia.htm
I thought Muskie Pox was only in St Clair?
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| Gotta second the Prop damage theory! |
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Location: Downers Grove, IL | the fish was right around 40 inches. surprisingly it nailed a topwater and fought really well. in fact the fish was a maniac in the net and twisted up like a *&^%$......maybe its just the fishes fault?? hopefully its not something that can spread throughout the lake.
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| I have noted that a very large percentage of the muskies I see pictured have some type of wound on them. In fact it seems very few have a "perfect" finish to them, many have injured fins and other abrasions/punctures. This doesn't seem to be nearly as prevalent in other species, anyone know why this is?
RM
www.bikinibaitcompany.com
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Location: WI - Land of small muskies and big jawbones | Could be Lymphosarcoma. Better known as red spot disease in fish. Can't say for sure. |
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Location: Minneapolis, MN | That does look like Lymphosarcoma. Jim Smith is studying the disease and would like to hear from people who catch fish with apparent symptoms. There is a form on the MI web site you can use to submit any catches to him that are suspicious. |
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Location: Holly, MI | RiverMan - 9/10/2004 5:38 PM
I have noted that a very large percentage of the muskies I see pictured have some type of wound on them. In fact it seems very few have a "perfect" finish to them, many have injured fins and other abrasions/punctures. This doesn't seem to be nearly as prevalent in other species, anyone know why this is?
RM
www.bikinibaitcompany.com
A couple of major reasons... the long life of a healthy Muskie gives them time to get beat up, think about it a Salmon only makes 3 or 4 years out in the big lake then spawns and dies. Very few salmon,walleye, trout, panfish, etc get released. The majority of Muskies that ever get caught get released. This presents many possibilities of injury or damage every time they are caught. Wetting your hands if you have to hold them will remove way less protective slime, net damage to fins and slime removal, some get dropped or are allowed to flop around in the bottom of a boat before release, etc. A lot of the Muskies you see pictured have been caught many times, especially ones from a smaller lake with lots of pressure. Even the big lakes have their famous spots and the same muskies get fooled once in a while.
The damage to the fish you see is an eye opener to all that CPR is great but "Good CPR" is even better.
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