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and my question is what do ya think bit it ? sure was an interesting healed up wound .
i would a thunk that should have been a death blow in most critters .....tough lil thangs for sure ....
anyway let the guessing begin ....i thunk turtle .....
and some know i think turtle and speak turtle as well ........rotfl
Bass. No teeth marks.
Maybe gar but probably like you said, turtle :scratchhead
Not sure of it being a bass. Do bass even bite hunks off things? I thought they swallowed their food whole?
Man I've seen fish with big chunk missing. It always amazes me they can live through.
Could have been Nessie, maybe got tired of the cold waters in the highlands of Scotland and decided to move to TX where the water is a bit warmer. Plus everyone knows crappie is the best eating :popcorn
Turkey buzzard? EB
What ever bit it, it was a long time ago. I am guessing it was when the fish was very small and this is just how it grew. Turtle or toothy fish would be my bet. His name is Lucky!
BORN THAT WAY
a " little foot "........... LOL
it looks like a turtle to me
I would think it was born that way. That kind of wound would probably been fatal. Just my opinion.
I would tend to agree that most odd shaped crappie have a birth defect or something similar that causes them to look odd . This particular fish went in the cooler with a bunch of others so i had the chance to put a little dissection on it myself . The upper protrusions of the vertebrae that look kinda like the fin bones were actually fragmented under the skin and bunched up by the area closer to its shoulder . Since there were shards of bones around the area i am pretty sure it was some kinda on wound .
i guess its still possible it was birth defect but i dont think bones can grow like that ?
maybe it was picked up and dropped by an Eagle or cormorant or other water bird
i still think turtle ....IMHO ....
one kinda like this common snapper maybe ?
I will agree with you. I've seen some that had a perfect triangle cut out of them. A perfect match to a turtles mouth.
Zika virus?