I am concerned and baffled. I usually fish 4-6 days a week for the last few years and I recently noticed that I had caught an odd looking northern. So I shrugged it off. Then I moved to another part of the lake approximately 3/4 of a mile from where I caught the first fish and then I caught a second one that was about ten inches smaller. I made a Wyoming on my graph and continued to fish that area and caught about 15 healthy and Stowell fed. I then moved to the upper part of the lake 2 miles from the last spot I was fishing and I caught 6 northern all 4-7lbs very healthy looking, then I caught this one. (Attached picture) can anyone tell me what the heck is wrong with these fish?
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<p style=”text-align: left;”>Some sort of parasite? I normally would say not enough food but if the majority of the fish look healthy I would say amount of forage in the system is not the problem</p>
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This reply was modified 2 years, 6 months ago by eyes4life.
I agree, a large majority of the other fish have all seemed to be larger and heavier than the same size fish from all of the other lakes in the central part of the state. Many of the fish that I ended up keeping because of of damaged gills or imennt death their bellies were full of sunnies, crappies and suckers.
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