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Main Discussion Area => Around the Campfire => Topic started by: bushboy on June 23, 2015, 07:21:14 pm

Title: drum tumor
Post by: bushboy on June 23, 2015, 07:21:14 pm
I commercially fished on the east coast of canada for 7 seasons and I never saw anything like this.i caught this today in the red river north of winnipeg manitoba.very gross indeed!
Title: Re: drum tumor
Post by: caveman2533 on June 23, 2015, 07:37:07 pm
Put it back! PUT IT Back!!
Title: Re: drum tumor
Post by: Pat B on June 23, 2015, 08:15:30 pm
I'd contact the Wildlife and Fisheries and see what they have to say about it.
Title: Re: drum tumor
Post by: osage outlaw on June 23, 2015, 09:29:41 pm
That's gross.  It kind of reminds me of Blinky from the simpsons

(http://www.theblaze.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/THREE-EYED-FISH-BLINKY-2.gif)
Title: Re: drum tumor
Post by: mullet on June 23, 2015, 10:38:45 pm
Japanese radiation from the Quake. lightly batter and fry, like chicken gizzards.
Title: Re: drum tumor
Post by: Pappy on June 24, 2015, 05:01:07 am
 ;D ;D ;D Eddie I need a laugh this morning. :)
   Pappy
Title: Re: drum tumor
Post by: Chief RID on June 24, 2015, 06:35:49 am
In warmer waters I guess stuff that causes problems for fish is more prevalent. We see  all kinds of weird stuff on fish in the south. I think we would see more but if a fish is seriously impaired in the food chain it does not last long and it usually can't be caught on lures because it is not feeding. I would think folks that catch fish in nets or baskets would see more of this kind of thing.
Title: Re: drum tumor
Post by: Dakota Kid on June 24, 2015, 07:13:05 am
That looks like an Erie sheephead from 20 yrs ago. The tumors seemed to disappear after the zebra muscles cleaned up the lake. Drum have a tenancy to form tumors without much irritation/pollutants. That may have been a result of a previous hook puncture. Lamprey eel scars usually result in a nasty tumor for a drum as well

  Fun to catch, but I'd starve before I ate one.
Title: Re: drum tumor
Post by: Zuma on June 24, 2015, 12:39:33 pm
That's a shame. What the greedy have done to our waterways is discusting.
I hope you have an isolated or natural case of the yucks there.
Zuma