Catching the random bass with defects.

[Darth-Baiter]

Like people, we cant all be good looking.

 

you ever catch a bass that is odd?   I love them all but yesterday was the first time i got a humpback.  He fought me hard.  Really put his back into it.  Quick pic and I slipped him back into the lake.  Not sure I got the full hump in pic. Neat fish!!
 

 

[Smells like fish]

I’d wanna make it a challenge to catch it again 

[Captain Phil]

Years ago we used to think bass like this had been injured.  A fisheries biologist told us it was a genetic bass deformity.  

[the reel ess]

I caught a bass while fishing with a guide in FL twice about an hour apart. It was clearly the same bass because it looked like a question mark. I told the guide he should keep that one because it was obviously trying to commit suicide.

[CrankFate]

I caught one with a destroyed eye last week. I think that comes from scraping the bottom when caught in shallow water. Because the shallow water fish often have bad fresh scrapes on them, compared to deeper water fish.

[the reel ess]

3 hours ago, Darth-Baiter said:

Like people, we cant all be good looking.

 

you ever catch a bass that is odd?   I love them all but yesterday was the first time i got a humpback.  He fought me hard.  Really put his back into it.  Quick pic and I slipped him back into the lake.  Not sure I got the full hump in pic. Neat fish!!
 

 

It would be my luck to someday catch a huge Quasimodo PB.

[Bluebasser86]

Caught this one last summer.

[CrankFate]

10 hours ago, Bluebasser86 said:

Caught this one last summer.

supposedly fish tuberculosis. I intentionally rig certain soft plastics to look like this. In certain conditions it works wonders.

[Darth-Baiter]

Interesting!!

[gim]

I caught a largemouth bass last July with a blueish-gray color. It seemed healthy and I released it. I emailed the local fisheries office and a biologist responded. He said it was simply a genetic alteration and he had also seen it in walleye, northern pike, and crappie on rare occasion but this was the first bass he had seen with it.

[geo g]

I caught a bass a few years ago with the entire gill plate on one side was torn at the base and hanging lose.  It was a terrible injury that had healed, and the bass seemed in good shape and ready to eat again.  It was released in good shape  and swam off strong.  This was clearly an old injury.  These creatures live in a dangerous world, and are tougher than many of us believe.

[Phelptwan]

Friend caught this dorkfish the other day.