Grady, I talked to Jeff and he said he filleted it like normal. He said the fish was so bloated from over eating that everything looked distirted. He didn't cut though the spine, just looks that way.
Mark 1:17 ...I will make you fishers of men
SeaRay, when I lived in currituck at the outer banks i was guiding for stripers, we caught our limit that day and I filleted a 28 inch striper for a customer. I noticed the belly was really big like it it was full of eggs , when I opened the stomach up we counted 63 crabs about the size of quarters inside. I wish I would had taken pictures but that was 4 Yeats ago. It was hard for us to believe what we were seeing. Them suckers can eat.