Stripers Under Attack by Flesh Eating Bacteria

[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.