Look at this!!
 

Attachment 16728 Can someone please tell me what how and why this bass looked this way!! :huh:

its not a tooomah...!!!!!!


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genetic defect?

ive found many quahogs that have a bend in them just like that. ive always thought its just a genetic problem. why not? people have genetic deformities, why can't animals?

Weird! but otherwise it looks healthy. "Not a toooomah..."http://www.oasisinet.com/forum/image...s/icon_lol.gif

Probably got a broken back, I kinda look like that.

I'd say it had a broken back at one point and time...

I got it's twin last year, suspect early injury.

scoliosis, just like in teenages

Looks like a pretty nice fish from the shadow:wavey:

Dood you caught the poor thing right as he was about to pinch one :hihi:

I've seen a few fish like that over the years, I thought I remembered reading something about this being a deformity related to toxic exposure in the Hudson River or something.

looks like it hit a speed bump.

I caught one several years ago that had a silmilar look but the indentation went from the top right behind the dorsal fin down about an inch and a half then went straight to the tail. Cut it open later and boy did it stink. Had a puss pocket inside that had healed over evidently, because the skin on the outside of the fish looked normal with the exception of the swayback the fish had. I caught it on the vineyard and when I took it to Coops to get it weighed he took a sample of the scales and poop and sent it off to whereever. I wonder what the researchers thought when they analyze that fishes stuff.
It was kind of funny though when I left the weigh in Edgartown, Leslie from Backlash Charters offered me $150.00 worth of fishing gear from her tackle shop for the fish because she had guests coming for dinner and she didn't catch a striper that day. If I had given it to her for the gear I would have had to give the gear back.

I caught a bass with the same deformity down the cape about a month ago...

It looks like it was rear ended

I think it's called Mycobacteriosis or something similar to that.

Abby Normal?

todd that is not mycobacteriosis

myco is characterized by red sores and welts. Caught plenty of those fish. yick

That is Rose of New England disease. OK, it's not, but the most fish I've seen like that were winter holdovers from the Thames...

How well did it swim & fight compared to a straight bass?

Probably fought kind of limp wristed :pop:

Pretty sure its related to some spinal chord injury as a frye. Similar to the pug nose bass, 'cept on a dif. end.

Got cuaght up in a commercial net when young, bottom of the pile kind of thing, thrown back with a broken back and survived? One possible Scenario?

from the verticle line i see, it could have been hit by a prop when younger then grew that way

Not sure but I picked up one like that last year. Made it to keeper size. But it was thin.

Thats what happens when you kick schoolies back in the water

It was 29 inches, and I don't remember it fighting any different John. Just caught me off-guard when I held it up, figured I had to get a picture and ask you guys what you thought. Thanks for all the responses, wish I could have posted a big fish, but 35" was the biggest of the day. Some huge fish were following the lures and the caught fish to the boat, but couldn't get them to bite. Threw everything at them, any suggestions? It was mid-day, but they were feeding. I threw poppers, fin-s, sluggos, tins, caught most bass on a rattletrap. Couldn't get anything to help us in the striper cup, but I know where they are, just can't fool em, yet.

caught trout like that ,dont know why?

i have caught several fish (1-2 per year) like that......always schoolies. some have the soares on them too. usually mixed with with that seem healthy, always that is had something to do with holdover fish.