Small flat but I am just warming up

  • katfish
    Ohio
    Posts: 65
    June 3, 2012 at 3:45 pm #1222670

    Got a 38 Saturday night. I released him to see if he will grow to 60.

    dfresh
    Fridley, MN
    Posts: 3053
    June 3, 2012 at 4:07 pm #1073235

    Nice fish! What’s up with the top of its mouth?

    igotone
    Posts: 1746
    June 3, 2012 at 4:39 pm #1073238

    Quote:

    Nice fish! What’s up with the top of its mouth?

    It’s a female

    joshbjork
    Center of Iowa
    Posts: 727
    June 3, 2012 at 4:44 pm #1073239

    Robbie, show them pictures of your toon! They will get a kick out of that.

    Brian Klawitter
    Keymaster
    Minnesota/Wisconsin Mississippi River
    Posts: 59992
    June 3, 2012 at 4:45 pm #1073240

    Quote:

    Quote:

    Nice fish! What’s up with the top of its mouth?

    It’s a female

    Nice one Robby.

    What were you using for bait? What river?

    katfish
    Ohio
    Posts: 65
    June 3, 2012 at 10:00 pm #1073282

    Brian
    I caught this male from a S E Ohio lake on a bluegill.

    I noted the injury. I figure this fish was hooked on a limbline and tore the hook free causing the gash. I released
    the fish and hope he grows to 60 pounds.

    dfresh
    Fridley, MN
    Posts: 3053
    June 3, 2012 at 10:35 pm #1073291

    Speaking of injuries on cats, here’s a weird one I caught two years back at LD # 3. Never could figure out what happened to this one:

    stuart
    Mn.
    Posts: 3682
    June 3, 2012 at 11:33 pm #1073298

    I would bet you’re right about the limb line.Hoping you catch it at 60+ .Should be easy to identify.

    mplspug
    Palmetto, Florida
    Posts: 25026
    June 4, 2012 at 1:11 am #1073320

    Yeah, sure looks like a limb line injury. It got hooked, but spent so much time on the line without being reeled in, it was able to tear itself free.

    Doug, was that “injury” symmetrical? To me if a fish oddity is irregular, it is normally a wound. If it is symmetrical, I usually chalk it up to a genetic mutation.

    dfresh
    Fridley, MN
    Posts: 3053
    June 4, 2012 at 1:28 am #1073326

    Hey Mike, you can see in the pic that the bottom whiskers had grown in. There was a knobby growth in the middle of the lower jaw, but other than that it was pretty symmetrical. It hit stink bait pretty hard and was otherwise no worse for wear, so it was eating.

    mplspug
    Palmetto, Florida
    Posts: 25026
    June 4, 2012 at 1:37 am #1073328

    Ah, glancing at it I thought the lower jaw was stunted. I see it a little better now.

    bret_clark
    Sparta, WI
    Posts: 9362
    June 4, 2012 at 4:33 pm #1073503

    For two years everyone thought I was a hair lip, glad I healed up. I never have back talked Dad since then

    moosemj
    Fox River, NE IL
    Posts: 121
    June 4, 2012 at 11:28 pm #1073611

    I certainly wouldn’t call it a small one, but I get it. I dream of fish like that. Looks like a nice start to the season anyway.

    At first I thought maybe someone cut out a bit of the lip to ID it in the future, but I suppose am injury from a set line is more likely.

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