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Topic: Fish mutation?  (Read 683 times)

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E Kayaker

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My brother caught these in Colorado. Anyone seen this before?
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Several year ago my son and I were fishing on Battle Creek near Manton when my son landed an eighteen inch trout that looked a lot like the top fish in the photo.  Not much fish between its anal vent and tail.  Genetic defect?


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top one looks like a case of whirling disease, but the bio's might know better
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I got one very similar at Amador two years ago. 
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It's a Natoma football minus 10 pounds  :smt044
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It looks like a derp to me.  My guess is that it is a hatchery fish that had some growth defect and would have been preyed upon early on in its life if it hadn't been raised in a hatchery where meals come free and predators need to sneak by chain link and netting. 

....or whirling disease.
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Mother nature doesn't allow derps! All fish are God's creatures.


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hell its got a normal tail....I call it good to go!
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I have caught a bow that looked like that but smaller. The weirdest one I've seen was Siamese twins king salmon smolt at a hatchery in Alaska. They were joined at the back so it looked as the smolt was piggy backing one another. I asked the hatchery worker about it and he said they get that every now and then but they eventually die.


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 :smt003 It's a Dorf fish, Tim Conway and I catch them all the time.
     
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