check out the tail on this fish. not only that, but it was skinny, and it's back was bent.. what do you guys think caused the tail issue?

http://img452.imageshack.us/img452/1874/dscn2427te6.jpg

http://img141.imageshack.us/img141/4539/sigcopy1sz.jpg

I would guess it got munched on by a bird when it was small and just healed "back" that way...

Todd
http://www.bassanglerprofiles.com/toddiwamoto.htm

that poor fish has had a rough life


I believe samurai has it right

well at least the lil guy is out there trying to eat! lol, imagine his anger when he grabs what he thinks is finally a meal only to be hooked ! i can hear him now "WTFFFFF!!!" "end my life now! " hehe

srw

MUTANT BASS ALERT

A "45 degree"

http://www.calfishing.com/dc/user_files/5470-100_1808.jpg



"peg fin" with bird scars


http://www.calfishing.com/dc/user_files/5471-100_1854.jpg

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that second one might be scarred but it's chunky!

http://img141.imageshack.us/img141/4539/sigcopy1sz.jpg

I caught a fish pretty similar to that one but without the forked tail. It's back was bent at pretty much a 45 degree angle. I also caught a fish at one of our ponds with a weird tumor thing on its back. That fish was also really really dumb, it got caught 3 times in two days, twice on the same spinnerbait and once on a Senko.

Jake

I would guess that the fish was born like that. For it to have 2 deformities like that leads me to believe that it is a result of mutation or error that occurred in the gamete or the larval development stage, rather than scarring. You run into fish like that from time to time.

Ryan Thoni


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http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c305/bob__builder/Nov%20Big%20Bear%2029/29fish1.jpg :o

Shane

MtBass, those were my thoughts exactly.

Considering the water quality in most of CA, congenital deformties are probably very common.

During my high school years I fished a private residential lake pretty often and caught tons of bass exhibiting congenital deformities. I guess all the backyard fertilizer runoff combined with a small population and gene pool size (among other factors) all contributed...