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Old 30-10-2010, 05:18 PM
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at my local i have noticed a few fish have been sporting a strange white/grey coloring on the flanks. but today i seen a fish that can only be called a frankenfish! it had huge white/grey growths on its sides they were like nothing i'd seen! they looked wasp gaul shaped all round and bumpy clustered together on both sides of the fish. does anone know what this could be? could that be the reason i find fishing there very difficult as the fish just don't want to know sometimes no matter what set up or flies im using?
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could be cotton wool fungus ............




http://www.fao.org/fishery/cultureds...chus_mykiss/en

scroll down to table of diseases....
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Old 30-10-2010, 05:33 PM
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These are Franken fish!!

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Old 30-10-2010, 06:53 PM
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now they are freaky fish!

as for the disease table it would be better if it had pictures as i have never landed one of these fish i've only seen them mulling in the shallows not doin much
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now they are freaky fish!
Classic examples of deformed farmed rainbows!
And some people still wonder why some folks would rather walk over hot coals than fish for them!
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Classic example of why many of those who don't trip over affordable wild fishing outside their front doors won't go back to certain stocked rainbow fisheries.
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What I reckon you have are inbreeds. Eggs stripped from the relatives of the original cock and hen fish.
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Old 30-10-2010, 11:11 PM
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I've had fish like picture 1... number 2 and 3, especially....never!!! Thats all wrong. I've seen the curved spined rainbows too. I call them boomerang bows and again all wrong! Inform the fishery, reservoir, whatever, they need to change the supplier.I am angry seeing these mutants. Like I say, this is ****** wrong!! Put them right!
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These are Franken fish!!

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Christ that's a fugly fish! Surprisingly it's still a nicely taken photo though... more than something with that face on it deserves lol
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Old 31-10-2010, 09:13 AM
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Christ that's a fugly fish! Surprisingly it's still a nicely taken photo though... more than something with that face on it deserves lol
it looks like its had ten rounds with tyson
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