Wounded fish pix:

[ianwuzhere]

Over the years ive caught quite a few fish that have shown to be wounded and still appear to be living a fish life, dont take too many pix but lets post up a couple weird ones that i did:



Sometimes mortality is questioned but over the years ive caught many fish who look like they have had a ruff time in their lives, so i think a high percentage of fish live thru a bad hookset or poor handling that were released, which contridicts what some people believe.
I think this one got a hook in the eye and has healed up well- very healthy fish swam away to live another day.



Absolutely zero eye left.


Still unknown wuz up with this brookies sore:


Cut up dorsal fin:



Mr freckles:


and lipstick is kinda weird 




Lets see some weird ones.. 

[TheDawg]

Thanks for those. After our convo about them, I was wondering when you were going to post up.

[er-e-is]

The one in my a avitar was severely injured and healed up. I'll find a bigger copy of it and post soon.

[Whopper Stopper]

Very interesting!

        WS

[Ise De By]

I got some footage I'll post.....in the "post season".     Its sad, made me upset when I watched  it on the computer later that night after I got home from fishing.       

In the meantime, check out this video of a wounder fish still trying to get my bait, in the same lake as Iand Bow picture.   crappy  footage quality,   too bad I didnt have the GoPro back then.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkOOHjWf45k

The injured bow doesnt come in until about 1:09 of the video,   watch it at that point until the end for a  closeup.

[ianwuzhere]

ya er e is that fish prolly tops the wounded fish pix..
that vid looks like a fish swimmin around in a circle after circle- dont think it mader much longer when they start doin that.

[hallyslayer]

Caught this 12-15 lb. halibut that got bit by something much larger then it was.

[ianwuzhere]

ahh looks like some kind of shark wanted a piece of hali!
-kewl pic

[er-e-is]

Here is a better pic of it.. 32'' - 8 +lbs



Another one

[adkRoy]

Do you guys have lamprey eels in your water? that looks alot like a lamprey bite.

[ianwuzhere]

Wow    -er e is them fish pix are great! sure messed up=hard to believe they are still alive, would be a kewl picture to enter into the derby- mite get a couple extra inches out of that laker  !!


 


ya its circular mark like a lamprey bite- but none here-well none that ive ever seen or heard anyhow..

[er-e-is]

That one won me money a few years ago in our local ice derby!

[ianwuzhere]

half a dorsal fin

[Finnish Fisher]

Here's what appeared to be a healthy peamouth from one of our local lakes, until this worm started crawling out of its hole... Tapeworm?
This fish definitely was not going to survive as its stomach was sucked dry of all nutrients. There were these bigger worms and a couple small ones wrapped around the guts. There were many peamouth on the flasher but were reluctant to take the marmish, which is unusual. Perhaps they're all infected..

[ianwuzhere]

hmm ya, that doesnt look good at all.
the only time ive seen that is at West lake= its pretty gross.
hopefully dont see any spread to other lakes cuz dont want it to effect other fish.
good pix.