My friend landed this guy today. I have seen fish in tanks have deformed spines but never caught a fish like this. Has anyone else ever seen this? It’s gut was fat and tight like it ate something possibly too big or indigestible? We released it so I cant say. It was about 19 inches. I’ve been fishing all my life and have never seen this.
Backbone probably broke when fingerling size…
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I’ve caught a few that had that same defect they all were in the 25 to 30 inch range
Or possibly got stuck in some trash that eventually corroded/broke off and its body grew within the trash like that… Weird looking for sure
Fish scoliosis.
“Apathy is the Glove into Which Evil Slips It’s Hand”, but really, who cares?
Looks like one of the lucky ones that escaped flipper sometime in the past.
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here is my pb tagged bull red that had a slight defect with his spine…
the other was the crazy one had the girth of a 30 40" red but lengthwise was barely over slot…
