Our good ole friend Richard (Jerry Garcia on this board) brought in this poor little deformed steelie he managed to catch out of the Sky today.

If anyone remembers Hawk's Midwest nuclear waste fish, this is a carbon copy.





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Ryan S. Petzold
aka
Sparkey and/or Special

That's a face only a mother could love.

And they say hatchery fish are genetically equal

Seriously, I've heard a little more about this ... it's a condition seen in a number of fish (can't remember the name of it), a silver at the Sol Duc Hatchery gave the moniker "hook-nose" a brand new meaning!

You gotta think a fish like that must have a heck of a time eating in the ocean!?

Your right Sauk, the fish looks kinda funny too.

jed

Good Friend of mine who did research on nuke plant cooling systems subjected marine invertebrates and salmonids to varying degrees of exposure to chlorine. The chlorine was used to keep growth of algae etc. from plugging the cooling lines that kept the reactor cores from getting too hot. One interesting thing that came about was the gross deformites in most of the off springs the salmon looked just like the one in the picture, the shiner perch from Sequim Bay were the worst or best display of abnormal development.
Some years later we were at the Seattle Aquarium and saw a whole returning run of these freaks at a little show and tell hatchery the aquarium folks were operating my bio friend theorized that in so much as there was no creek around there they were using city water and the filters were not capable of getting all the chlorine filtered out thereby creating the same enviroment that she had back on Sequim Bay in the mid seventies.
I have caught a few of these blunt nosed fellows as far to the north and west as Sitka Sound and have always figured that chlorine had a hand in the development of these little dolphin heads.

I'm all geeked out about this one. At least I started the milenium out with the freak. Boy, that fish ain't very pretty either. Hey Jerry: We must be long lost soul mates seperated at birth. Maybe one of our fish took a wrong turn at the Root River, and ended up in Washington. Oh by the way, I still have my freak fishes head in my freezer. Thinking about putting it in a big jar of fromaldehyde.

Wow that picture brings back memorys

back in 77 we lost 90% of our calves to a deformaty called parot mouth ---(lower jaw was shunken just as that fishes upper) and guess what was up wind of us----Idahos good ole nuclear waste dump INL---see they had a little accident that released a bunch of radiation and other crap into the air-----was weird ---you could see where it layed down on the ground ---half a hay feild was dead in a week ---pussy willows same thing in the ponds---the following yrs--we experienced mutalated cattle---udders cut off and no blood left in the animal or arround the carcass-------- and just to think they want to start dumping the waste into the ocean -that big ole fault cant recall the name----

Will
been doin the rain dance for over 2 weeks now and only gettin a drizzle--- might have to tone it up a little --maybe some incence like burnin monofillement will work


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Lifes to short --- Fish all you can

This fish was about 5 lbs., about 2/3rds the weight of other winters I've caught lately. Believe it or not I caught it on a sandshimp.

I was told 9by a fisheries guy in Michigan)that these fish were a result of guys at the hatchery brooming the raceways to eliminate algae. Some of the smolts get doinked in the melon, and breaks that bone structure on the bridge of their nose. Most of them die, but a few live, and waht you caught is a result of that. Don't know if it's true or not, just something I was told.

Man, that thing really had a beard on it. Mine had no facial hair at all. LOL.

I never thought a fish could have a hairlip!!
keith

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What type of hook would be best suited to target fish like these... an Aberdeen?

Cooked him last night um um um good!