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Posted: 5/31/2016 12:06:23 PM EDT
Link Posted: 5/31/2016 12:37:28 PM EDT
[#1]
Is it actually broken or is it just defective?
Kinda looks like a deformity. Never the less,cool find
Link Posted: 5/31/2016 12:39:08 PM EDT
[#2]
That's wild. I've worked on shrimp boats, crab boats, and lived on the gulf coast most of my life and never seen anything like that. Thanks for sharing.
Link Posted: 5/31/2016 1:11:35 PM EDT
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Link Posted: 5/31/2016 1:20:59 PM EDT
[#4]
Link Posted: 5/31/2016 6:10:58 PM EDT
[#5]
I commercial fished here in Alaska for 12 years in the 70s and 80s. I Was a longline cod and halibut fisherman. We used to catch Halibut fairly often that had deformities from trauma that had healed up. In the old days they had a thing called a crucfier that the groundline ran through that ripped the hook out of a fishes mouth, it has since been outlawed.  It tore the shit out of a halibuts mouth/head.Undersized fish were thrown over board and lots of them matured deformed like that.
Link Posted: 6/19/2016 2:57:36 AM EDT
[#6]
That's not something you see everyday.
Link Posted: 8/20/2016 12:35:10 PM EDT
[#7]
happens with stripers from time to time up here, mutation due to water temperature where the eggs were spawned and initially began life. gives them that crooked spine. Another uncommon deformity is a pug nosed bass, very weird looking things, but they survive just fine.
Link Posted: 10/3/2016 8:56:46 PM EDT
[#8]
He's like, Too short bitches throw me back!
Link Posted: 10/3/2016 9:15:58 PM EDT
[#9]
Back in the day of mullet netters long line, it was not common, but you would run across them looking like this.
Link Posted: 10/4/2016 8:11:19 AM EDT
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Link Posted: 10/4/2016 8:44:58 AM EDT
[#11]
going to catch some reds/trout in 5 days...

must... fish...
Link Posted: 10/4/2016 8:52:41 AM EDT
[#12]


Cheers!
-JC
Link Posted: 10/24/2016 7:57:32 PM EDT
[#13]
Broken... loss... they still fight hard as hell.  This 25" red fought hard as hell without a tail!!!


Link Posted: 10/24/2016 11:06:36 PM EDT
[#14]
It's the Tuna!

Did ya keep him?
Link Posted: 10/25/2016 10:29:10 AM EDT
[#15]
Caught a bunch of non-defective reds a few weeks ago. Ate a sack full of belly meat that night, and it's about time to do a batch of fillets... Thanks for the reminder....
Link Posted: 10/26/2016 7:05:06 PM EDT
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It's the Tuna!

Did ya keep him?
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We let it swim away..
Link Posted: 4/21/2017 9:19:48 PM EDT
[#17]
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happens with stripers from time to time up here, mutation due to water temperature where the eggs were spawned and initially began life. gives them that crooked spine. Another uncommon deformity is a pug nosed bass, very weird looking things, but they survive just fine.
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Yep. I caught a z shaped striper about ten years ago. seemed healthy enough, so I let her go.
Link Posted: 5/13/2017 12:28:02 PM EDT
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Link Posted: 5/13/2017 9:31:00 PM EDT
[#19]
Got this one yesterday..check the tail
Link Posted: 6/20/2017 1:23:07 PM EDT
[#20]
The first picture and the picture above this post looks like whirling disease . I thought it only happens in salmon/trout but those pictures make me think it can happen in other fish also.
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