Stripers Under Attack by Flesh Eating Bacteria

[cow tamer]

Caught several schoolies today. Half of them looked as though some flesh eating bacteria had at them. Main body and fins looked like the fish had been dragged along a gravel road. Anybody familiar with this condition? Sorry, no pictures.

[Raven]

not caused by big waves then?

[ecduzitgood]

Search mycobacteriosis, you can catch it so be careful.

[Raven]

yup, Joe had it
and it ate his pancreas

[Nebe]

Fin rot
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[ecduzitgood]

Originally Posted by Nebe

Fin rot
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Could be; but he said it was on the main portion of the body also.

[cow tamer]

Didn't have the red lesions associated with mycobacteriosis. Instead they just looked battered, scales dislodged, bruised skin/flesh, fins shredded or almost gone.

[Nebe]

Every late fall and early spring I catch a lot of these icky fish. Sometimes they have a white pus like slime.
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[Clammer]

YEP TWO DIFFERENT things ;;

the funky slim ones I,ve been catching for 30 years .

Got some real messy ones last week ;

then there is the mico@#$%^&*( disease . that,s the one with the soares /
I hadn,t seen those until the last 5- 6 years ;

last year Denis & I got 125 fish up to 18# one day ... 100 had them ......... the next week are catch was down / but so was the average size & the percentage of disease fish were down .

this week two trips one 32" fish with the leasions & one small fish with the creeping crud .

from all the guys that have studied this in depth ,,,,,,,they are both fatal ..........another reason the bass are in trouble .

our winter fishing has been going exactly as the May to November fishery ..... down hill every single year ;

last winter was the worse winter I,ve had since I can remember ..................... now guys don,t go & count the vertical snagging in the Thames ;;

I should go now its flat-ass / but M uck it

[Nebe]

Originally Posted by cow tamer

Didn't have the red lesions associated with mycobacteriosis. Instead they just looked battered, scales dislodged, bruised skin/flesh, fins shredded or almost gone.

I call it Sea Herpies.
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[cow tamer]

White pus mucous slime and creeping crud are also good descriptors of what I was seeing.

Originally Posted by Nebe

Every late fall and early spring I catch a lot of these icky fish. Sometimes they have a white pus like slime.
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[QUOTE=Clammer;813870]YEP TWO DIFFERENT things ;;

the funky slim ones I,ve been catching for 30 years .
Got some real messy ones last week ;
this week two trips one 32" fish with the leasions & one small fish with the creeping crud .

[Raven]

sounds like ...........its temperature related

[RoyL]

[QUOTE=cow tamer;813915]White pus mucous slime and creeping crud are also good descriptors of what I was seeing.

Originally Posted by Clammer

YEP TWO DIFFERENT things ;;

the funky slim ones I,ve been catching for 30 years .
Got some real messy ones last week ;
this week two trips one 32" fish with the leasions & one small fish with the creeping crud .

I get a lot of these in late winter and early spring. I my self like Raven believe its a temperature change as well as bacteria. I think the fish that get this are the ones that make there way into the back rivers and freshwater and stay for a while. Like salmon and trout when returning to rivers will also become the same way as they stay longer. Almost all the bass I get out of the Charles, Scortons,and mystic over Dec - Jan seem to have the red skin. Earlier this fall a got a staff infection under my chin which was thought to have come from a striper. So be careful out there

[MarkB]

You do use protection, don't you? You don't want to be bringing home diseases to the Missus.