WOUNDED BLUE FISH
 

I took the boat in the river the other night to see if there was any bait hanging around. We see something spinning around on the surface. It was about a 30 inch blue fish. We pulled it into the boat to check it out and see what the problem was. It had a light ring around it's head right behind its gills going right around. Something had this fish in it's mouth. There were no teeth marks, blood or holes in it's lips. A seal,tuna or monster blue would have done some damage. Would a huge bass try eating a blue this size. The wound looked like an eel does after a bass hits it. I'm scratching my head. What do you guys think?

sounds like a gillnet more than something grabbing it.

That didn't even cross my mind :smash:

I've seen that before too

I'd agree with Ted too. Gillnet

And yet another Scooby Doo mystery solved. Thanks guys!!!!!

they gillnet on Brown's Ledge or used to.

lots of old netting is still on the bottom.... in certain places.

A 30" Blue is really big to be eaten...however, a few weeks back we were live lining Mackerel in a river. We couldn't catch any small macks so we were sending out 12-13" fish. We caught stripers from 26- 36 inches on those. A 26 inch striper eating a 12" fish....not hard to imagine a really big striper chasing a 30" blue. Maybe it decided it had bit off more than it could chew and dropped it.

Stripers know you have to bleed them right away and put them on ice otherwise you should throw them away.