Guys, I heard recently that there is a disease of some kind effecting bass in Pool 10, one that causes ugly and ultimately fatal sores on their skin. Don’t know if this is a fungus or what. I’m trying to find out what I can about it. What does anyone on the forum know about this?
Haven’t heard anything about this. Caught a lot of largemouth and some smallies in June and again in September on pool 10. Didn’t see any sores on any of them.
I fish pool 10 all summer and haven’t seen any sores on any of the bass I caught. I haven’t heard anything either, but if I hear of anything I will let you know.
Caught a largemouth with a large sore near its mouth in October, but I was pretty sure it came from handling when it had been caught before. Maybe not?
The sores that you are all discussing is the largemouth bass virus that you may have heard about. It has been traveling around the states and it has finally made it to the river. i am up here on pool seven and seen a number of cases of it this fall. it looks like the fish has been scaled and is all red. I have also heard that if you transport fish with it in your wells, you are to use bleach to clean it out. I have not heard for certain what this is going to mean for our great fishery, but I am sure it will not be good. Lets all hope for more info to be found on it. If it has not made it to your pool as of yet, it is only a matter of time. Soory for the bad news.
P.S. Bassmasters has had a few articles on it over the past few months.
Bassman
So that is what Largmouth bass virus looks like? Nasty! I just sort of figured that lmv was a disease that had internal manifestations, sort of a piscatorial equivalent of cwd, where the fish would just get sick and die. The Iowa DNR apparently discovered it in one of the lakes on the Iowa side of Pool 10, and they and WI DNR are looking into it. If anyone wants to see a set of pictures about it, shoot me an e-mail at [email protected] and I’ll forward them. The file of photos is a lot bigger than 100000 bytes so I won’t post it here. Thanks to all who have posted, and no, I haven’t gotten around to reading Bassmaster for the last few months. That will be one of my winter projects and I look forward to reading up on it (and more uplifting things too).
Gonna reply to my own post here, just thought of something else in response to Bassman’s reply. I heard earlier this fall that lmv has been found in Pools 3, 4 and 7.
Just a side note to what I saw this fall. I saw the LMB virus on pools 7&8. Let’s hope mother nature fixes this for us. Thanks for starting the informational thread red champion.
Bassman
Hey Redchampion
If you’ll e-mail those photos to me I’ll get them on-line ASAP.
Inquiring minds want to know… or see them in this case.
I thought LMB virus was mainly a heat of the summer item like down south?
Hey guys, I have been emailing Brian Brecka, a WI DNR biologist about the sick looking fish. He says the fish in the pictures which I will send have not yet been diagnosed yet, the IA DNR boys are working on it, and that LMBV does not have external manifestations; and he gave me an internet site that discusses the illness: http://www.fishingenet.com/Features/vgvirus.html. I looked it up and it is interesting. I wanted to set the record straight and don’t want to be spreading a false rumor. But I also hope they figure out what is causing the lesions on those fish folks are reporting, I want to know if it is something we should be concerned about or just one of those curves mother nature throws at her children, and has since the dawn of time.
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