Taken in a deep pool in the Dee, in what is very dark water. Because of the lack of light, eg none, and the poor viz at one meter the quality is poor but let it run.
It shows a catatonic salmon, waiting for water to run. It eventually wakes up after a bit of encouragement from me.

it has some jaw damage, perhaps as a result of a hook injury as a parr or adult, we will never know, but interesting never the less.

The Eels are also interesting, look at the eyes, both the salmon and eels have very bright eyes, makes me wonder i the lures we use should emphaisie this.

Certainly shows why fish will take no interest in a lure for months at a time, if a big fat diver poking it on the head cannot get a reaction!


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Great post Dave.

Munro

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Why does the salmons mouth glow in the first video? Looks a bit creepy. Nice videos by the way.

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i think it is just the white of the damaged mough reflecting our video lights, spooky in the dark!

Looks very like a hatchery deformity to me. These jaw deformities are relatively common in hatcheries and in commercial ones the fish are usually graded out, however for restocking they put them in the water anyway. It's amazing that they survive to smolts never mind returning to the river. I don't know the Dee myself, does it have a hatchery?

No hatchery on deeside but there are others nearby and i suppose we get a few stragglers

Dave

Obviously we have a hell of a lot of 'hatcheries' here in my corner of the world. The cross boarders is a fairly common thing. Where there are rivers with several hatcheries in a geographic area all the fish will have a different fin clipped for identification. Two reasons: where did it come from, and if no clip it's a 'Wild Fish' and must be released.

Not uncommon to take a fish from one river that was released as a smolt in another. Natures way of protecting the fish runs ... 'I got lost, but your cute .... want to xxxx?'

Very cool vid's; more of those would be good.

fae

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Hi cool video great!