The crooked fish that swam a crooked mile…

http://www.in-depthangling.com/photopost/showphoto.php?photo=55

I just posted this picture in our photo gallery and thought I’d share this with all those that visit the Mississippi River Walleye forum. Anyone else seen one this deformed before? Holy smokes! I’ve caught a good number of walleyes with a little kink in their back or an obvious deformity but this one is a marvel of survival. I’m assuming, for lack of an alternative explaination, that this happened when this fish was very young and was likely caused by a run-in with a DNR shock boat that cuased intense muscle spasms to the extent that this damage was caused.

Anyone else ever seen something like this?

Are you sure the fish didn’t get the bends from being brought up too fast?

When I saw that I about pooped, on sat my uncle caught an identical fish at the head of the lake.
Funny looking thing!

Now James, I have heard of people altering fish to get a legal, but I think you are taking this a little to far.

when I worked the hatchery you would see a percentage of crooked spines… they occur “naturally”… as a deformity.. but to see one survive that long is suprising… the odds are clearly against it……

Looks like he just wolfed a Sheepie!

James,
Looks like you need to slow down the troll speed a tad!
Thanks for sharing…glad to see this fish alive and well.

That’s how my back feels after laying 12″ concrete block all day…….lol…….

Ouch!

James:

In the LPO this year, my partner caught one that looked similar to that one also. We did snap a few photos and then released it.

Not sure the cause. Someone said and had a name for it, similar to scoliosis in humans, any truths??

Hump? What hump?

Walk this way…..

I caught Humpy today.

Hey Kerry,,,

Did he come from the river too ?

And I was watching Midwest Outdoors TV the other night and they caught a humpback in Devil’s Lake, North Dakota!!! First thing I thought of was H20’s fish and it seems we already have two.

Mark

ec, Yes he did, caught him at the head of the lake.

Reminds me of how I learned to spell Mississippi

“M”, “i”, crooked letter, crooked letter, “i”;
Crooked letter, crooked letter, “i”;
Humpback, humpback, “i”: Mississippi.
Flowin’ down to New Orleans

LMAO @ ThumperW. That made my eyes water laughing so hard!

How about this:

Two Italian men were sitting behind a woman on a bus.

“Emma come first,” one of the men said to the other.

“Denna I come. Two esses, they come together. I come again. Denna two esses, they come together again. I come again and pee twice. Denna I come oncea more.”

“You Pigs!,” the lady yelled. “In this country, we don’t talk about our sex lives in public!”

“Hey, coola down, lady,” the one man said.

“Imma justs tellun him howa to spella Mississippi.”

That’s a great one, Dave!

How about this one…

VEN TWO MINNESOTANS MEET oop nort on da lake fichen.

“Haydair.”
“Lobuddy.”
“Benearlong.”
“Coplhours.”
“Crieps, cetchenenny?”
“Yepgoddafew.”
“Vairdaybitin?”
“Oberdair.”
“Kindarday?”
“Valleyennordern.”
“Ennysiztooum?”
“Cuplapowns.”
“Oofda, bittenard?”
“Yanohowdeyar.”
“Vahchaoozin? Dalindyrik?”
“Ohyeahdonchano.”
“Fichenondaboddum?”
“Rydoopneardaboddum.”
“Howdeeperya?”
“Bouttventyfeet.”
“Oh, vachadrinkin?”
“Hadacouplabeers.”
“Velligoddago.”
“Tubad.”
“Seeyaround.”
“Yeahtakideeze.”
“Guluck.”
“Yoobetcha.”

( If you can read this… you’re a true Minnesotan!)

With a name like Torgerud, it figures you would know a few of those Scandinavian jokes!
LOL!
Tuck

Vell golldarn et – I taht dat vas da vay aryvon tawkt in St. Pahl, by golly!

Here’s another one:
Ole bought Lena a piano for her birthday. A few weeks later, Lars inquired how she was doing with it. “Oh,” said Ole, “I persuaded her to svitch to a clarinet.” “How come?” asked Lars. “Vell,” Ole answered, “because vith a clarinet, she can’t sing.”

– Rick
PS – when ya gonna teach me how to fish?