Crazy fish injury?

[fishinhunter]

Ever seen a fish like this? This is a small catfish with a crazy deformity or injury...he looked like an accordion the way his back was all zig-zaggy. Who knows...maybe he ran into the dam full speed.


IMG_1504 by scarfam, on Flickr

[Gobob]

Bizarre Maybe a egret tried to chomp him , very strange

[Redge]

That is weird.

[domination2580]

That is really wierd and interesting.

[NIMROD]

My guess deformity from genetics , caught other fish with this problem mostly bass.

[DockShootinJack]

I caught a crappie like that. When I fillet it the back bone was all knoted up. May have encountered a boat prop.

[skeetbum]

I've caught Largemouth from a friends pond that were like that.Not as extreme as that kitty but many odd fish from a stocked pond also leads me to believe a twist in the genetics.

[Eagle 1]

Swimming around my lines to much .

[rsimms]

We see a lot of those in Chickamauga Dam Tailwaters. Biologists I've asked about it aren't 100% sure... suggest it could be a vitamin deficiency, or it could be genetic. Since we see quite a few of them in a concentrated area, I suspect the latter.

[bkgooch]

cool lookin cat