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RoyL
07-21-2010, 01:06 PM
Anyone ever seen anything like this? The fish seemed healthy and took a huge live mack. Might be an old hook wound that has gotten infected, but still very strange.

bassballer
07-21-2010, 01:43 PM
Dude that this is disgusting. Never seen anything like it.

PRBuzz
07-21-2010, 01:48 PM
That's a tumor of some type, maybe a cyst but not likely. Definitely doesn't look like a wound (hook) healing.

BigFish
07-21-2010, 01:55 PM
Just another "wonder of nature" combined with all the fantastic toxins that mankind dumps in the water!!!!

BasicPatrick
07-21-2010, 01:58 PM
Roy,

It doesn't look lik Myco but a quick email to DMF will probably get you an answer. Email Dr. Mik Armstrong (michael.armstrong@state.ma.us) who will pass it along to Gary Nelson or any of the other s-b biologists we have in MA DMF.

bassballer
07-21-2010, 01:58 PM
You catch that off a power plant?

timmah
07-21-2010, 02:19 PM
Infected wound or tumor.

I got one the other night that only had half of a jaw on one side. It looked like he had been caught years ago, got infected and cured with the whole left side of the jaw gone. The bass was perfectly healthy and FAT too.

He looked like the guy from the Cleveland Show with the hole in the side of his mouth.

BasicPatrick
07-21-2010, 03:13 PM
Infected wound or tumor.

I got one the other night that only had half of a jaw on one side. It looked like he had been caught years ago, got infected and cured with the whole left side of the jaw gone. The bass was perfectly healthy and FAT too.

He looked like the guy from the Cleveland Show with the hole in the side of his mouth.

FYI...Not sure about yours but the missing or half jaw thing is a know genetic birth defect....lots of fish caught that way.

RoyL
07-21-2010, 07:39 PM
Roy,

It doesn't look lik Myco but a quick email to DMF will probably get you an answer. Email Dr. Mik Armstrong (michael.armstrong@state.ma.us) who will pass it along to Gary Nelson or any of the other s-b biologists we have in MA DMF.

Thanks Patrick..........will do and keep you all posted on what they say

tattoobob
07-21-2010, 08:11 PM
That looks nasty

5/0
07-21-2010, 08:17 PM
It looks like his a$$ is hanging out of its throat, poor bastage.

afterhours
07-22-2010, 06:14 AM
caught it's twin a few yrs ago, thought it was myco..

Back Beach
07-22-2010, 08:17 AM
Looks like my big toe.

redlite
07-22-2010, 08:41 AM
Looks like my big toe.
....or your "po-ta-toe"........you may be italian but your's ain't that big..........

OLD GOAT
07-22-2010, 11:09 AM
One like that in muddy creek was caught white perch fishing in the winter. About 32 lbs.must have become land locked.

luds
08-21-2010, 08:15 AM
Picked up a fish a couple weeks ago with a similar growth. Not nearly as big though but still gross.

Adam_777
08-21-2010, 08:55 AM
should have sliced it and tasted it.Looks like sushi.:yak6: