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08-14-2006, 05:13 PM
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Location: Plymouth, MA
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Look at this!!
6-18-06 029.jpg Can someone please tell me what how and why this bass looked this way!! 
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08-14-2006, 05:26 PM
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Moderator
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: 4 hours from my favorite place
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its not a tooomah...!!!!!!
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Simplify.......
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08-14-2006, 05:26 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Cape Cod
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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?
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08-14-2006, 05:30 PM
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Location: Westport
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Weird! but otherwise it looks healthy. "Not a toooomah..."  |
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08-14-2006, 05:40 PM
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Wishin' for fishin'
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Brockton
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Probably got a broken back, I kinda look like that.
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08-14-2006, 05:47 PM
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JohneeeD
Join Date: May 2006
Location: New Hampshire/Mass on da border
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I'd say it had a broken back at one point and time...
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08-14-2006, 05:50 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: NE CT
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I got it's twin last year, suspect early injury.
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08-14-2006, 05:53 PM
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Soggy Bottom Boy
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Billerica, Ma.
Posts: 7,260
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scoliosis, just like in teenages
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Surfcasting Full Throttle
Don't judge me Monkey 
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08-14-2006, 05:53 PM
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Wishin' for fishin'
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Brockton
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Looks like a pretty nice fish from the shadow  |
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08-14-2006, 05:57 PM
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Permanently Disconnected
Join Date: Nov 2002
Posts: 12,647
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Dood you caught the poor thing right as he was about to pinch one 
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. |
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08-14-2006, 06:12 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: plymouth,ma
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looks like it hit a speed bump.
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08-14-2006, 06:28 PM
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Retired Surfer
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: Sunset Grill
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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.
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Swimmer a.k.a. YO YO MA
Serial Mailbox Killer/Seal Fisherman
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08-14-2006, 07:54 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: Vero Beach Florida
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I caught a bass with the same deformity down the cape about a month ago...
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08-14-2006, 08:14 PM
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Soggy Bottom Boy
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Billerica, Ma.
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It looks like it was rear ended
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Surfcasting Full Throttle
Don't judge me Monkey
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08-14-2006, 09:41 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: block island
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Originally Posted by #^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&
Dood you caught the poor thing right as he was about to pinch one
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. |
I think it's called Mycobacteriosis or something similar to that. |
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08-14-2006, 10:10 PM
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I need spring!
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: Weymouth, MA
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Abby Normal?
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08-15-2006, 04:23 AM
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Permanently Disconnected
Join Date: Nov 2002
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todd that is not mycobacteriosis
myco is characterized by red sores and welts. Caught plenty of those fish. yick
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08-15-2006, 05:49 AM
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Certifiable Intertidal Anguiologist
Join Date: Feb 2000
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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?
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08-15-2006, 07:18 AM
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Also known as OAK
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Westlery, RI
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Originally Posted by JohnR
How well did it swim & fight compared to a straight bass?
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Probably fought kind of limp wristed  |
Bryan
Originally Posted by #^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&
"For once I agree with Spence. UGH. I just hope I don't get the urge to go start buying armani suits to wear in my shop"
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08-15-2006, 07:27 AM
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It's about respect baby!
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: ri
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Pretty sure its related to some spinal chord injury as a frye. Similar to the pug nose bass, 'cept on a dif. end.
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Domination takes full concentration..
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08-15-2006, 07:52 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2003
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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?
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08-15-2006, 08:51 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2005
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from the verticle line i see, it could have been hit by a prop when younger then grew that way
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08-15-2006, 09:19 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Cumberland, RI
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Not sure but I picked up one like that last year. Made it to keeper size. But it was thin.
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Good judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement -- Keith Benning
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08-15-2006, 09:23 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: MA
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Thats what happens when you kick schoolies back in the water
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08-15-2006, 05:08 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Plymouth, MA
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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.
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08-15-2006, 07:26 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2006
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caught trout like that ,dont know why?
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08-16-2006, 05:30 AM
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Salt of the Earth
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: Suburbia, RI
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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.
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