Crazy fish injury?

Ever seen a fish like this? This is a small catfish with a crazy deformity or injury...he looked like an accordion the way his back was all zig-zaggy. Who knows...maybe he ran into the dam full speed. :biggrin


https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5444/...c7acd75b_b.jpgIMG_1504 by scarfam, on Flickr

Bizarre Maybe a egret tried to chomp him , very strange

That is weird.

That is really wierd and interesting.

My guess deformity from genetics , caught other fish with this problem mostly bass.

I caught a crappie like that. When I fillet it the back bone was all knoted up. May have encountered a boat prop.

I've caught Largemouth from a friends pond that were like that.Not as extreme as that kitty but many odd fish from a stocked pond also leads me to believe a twist in the genetics.

Swimming around:Rofl my lines to much .

We see a lot of those in Chickamauga Dam Tailwaters. Biologists I've asked about it aren't 100% sure... suggest it could be a vitamin deficiency, or it could be genetic. Since we see quite a few of them in a concentrated area, I suspect the latter.

cool lookin cat