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Reply With QuoteThat is a nice size chuck gone. Amazing how resilient wildlife can be sometimes.
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Something took a bite outa this crappie.
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It was a nice crappie but I felt it got this far in life with his back about taken outa him, that I let him go. Go make some more tough fighters, right.
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That is a nice size chuck gone. Amazing how resilient wildlife can be sometimes.
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That’s his spine that’s missing. I shoulda kept him, he coulda been studied for how his nerves re-stored themselves. Wild huh, woulda thought he woulda been the first fish eaten by a big bass back when it first happened.Originally Posted by SuperDave336
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Surely the spine is just below the missing chunk ??
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Kinda looked like a big ol' snapper attacked it at some point in it's life...
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Seeing this picture reminded me of a time a couple of years ago when I went fish a friend's pond who wanted to cull a bunch of the smaller bass out of the pond. I had a couple on a stringer, and I went to add a third bass, something had bitten one of the bass in half. Turns out he also had too many turtles, and one of the big snappers had an easy meal.
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Yeah, you're probably right, but it's awfully close. Oh well.
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Those Herons and Cormorants peck holes in their backs here. Sometimes heal up and leave a big dip in the backs . I think some may be hook injuries folks using them for bait when smaller .
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I was thinking KOVU,
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likely used as bait as a smaller fish is my vote , wound size and location indicate such to me ....
but like stated herons poke holes thru them too .....seen a really huge male fish one time ...
still lightly kicking near some spawning beds on the surface ....
had what looked like a point blank 410 hole right thru the middle of him when I picked him up ...
herons all over the bank spearing fish at the time as well ....
but one thig for certain , wildlife often heal up from what might have been a humans demise ....
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