one messed up sauger

Caught this guy earlier in the ice season. Makes my back hurt just looking at him.

Sure looks screwed up. I’m surprised it grew this big.

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What a trooper!

Wow, that’s one of the wildest things I’ve ever seen…

Looks like sauger scoliosis to me.

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This post could get bad for me real fast!

here,s his cousin my buddy caught when we were on the river this past thursday.

little bent outta shape huh!!

Caught some through the ice that were similar but not as funky as yours

I caught several “crooked” saugers while on pool 4 last month. You really have to wonder what is going on….

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I have seen several like that over the years. Wonder what causes it???

It’s slinky. It’s slinky. It’s fun for girls and boyz.

Must be the Nuclear plant….. KIDDING! But I have caught a few saugers like that in the past few years… Any fisheries biologists around the site?

Only place I have seen them is on river systems mainly the Miss, I would like to think its from some kind of trama but even still if theres no fish in the box that one wont go there either

Haha that would be a funny lookin fillet though wouldnt it? Ben when you coming back down to P4?

Ozzy that is by far the weirdest sauger I have ever seen. Heres a hunch back from last year, pool 4

I caught a Walleye like that on pool 8 once. Pretty wierd.

Ive caught quite a few of them over the past year. Does that big hump mean more meat I talked to a dnr official and he believed its a genetic flaw. Kind of like the hunch back of notre dame.

It’s not there any longer, but the best part was as I was reading and looking at deformed fish there was an ad at the bottom of the posting for Arkansas! LMAO!

It’s from laying on top of wing dams….

Yes, there are “2” messed up saugers…

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I have caught fish with the same hunch back problem on milacs also but i catch alot more on the river….. sure is weird

I think they were grabbed by a bird and got away when they were young. I’ve seen some bass looking like that, too.

I’d bet 100:1 it is genetics and not trauma. I’d imagine any injury that would bend them up like that would be lethal. Plus, sounds like there is a lot of them out there. That’s a lot of fish escaping mortality from a event like that.

Anyway, I as I read the replies, I became more curious if there might actually be some advantage for a fish with this mutation. I can’t imagine it would be anything but a detriment, but then I wonder why so many are being caught.

Trauma, had a DNR officer tell us that this was caused from a couple of different things eggs were laid to shallow & waves crashed on them after they were fertilized or nest was raided (after being fertilized) by another species of fish egg sack got damaged, but survived!! I really don’t know s%*t, just what we were told. thought I’d pass it on??

Those are the ones you serve with curly fries.

Electro shocking will do this too.

I thought this post was about Sauger and Burbob.