name that disease

[WayneChristie]

caught this pike today, pretty feisty but rather thin, and ugly! No idea what this is, anyone got any ideas?
http://i787.photobucket.com/albums/yy156/rollinghillbilly/September%2026%2009/DSCF7831.jpg
http://i787.photobucket.com/albums/yy156/rollinghillbilly/September%2026%2009/DSCF7830.jpg

[floppychicken]

I'm gonna say THAT is a REALLY BAD and rather rare case of "HERPA-GONNO-SYPHILIS" ! :lol:

[WayneChristie]

Almost looked like it was jumping for a duck same time someone let loose with a 12 gauge!

[Beazer]

I'm thinking, another pike attacked it or maybe some giant hook snagged it.
Moreso the former though.
Just scabbing over or healing if you can do that in that water, lol.
edit:wait a minute, it looks like theres 3-5 white worms in there?

[nevercatchmuch]

send the pic into the biologists at sustainable resources. they have answered my questions quickly before.
SRD.InfoCent@gov.ab.ca

[flygirrl]

:innocent:Wayne, stop peeing in the water :wave::wave: :rolleyes:

[Sandalius]

:innocent:Wayne, stop peeing in the water :wave::wave: :rolleyes:

X2..... especially after you"ve been drinking that home made hooch the night before :sick::sick::lol::lol:

[baitfisher83]

lmao you're all so evil

[Geezle]

whatever it is, that fish doesn't look too happy with life...

[WayneChristie]

send the pic into the biologists at sustainable resources. they have answered my questions quickly before.
SRD.InfoCent@gov.ab.ca

thanks bud, I just sent the pics off by email. I will let you know what they say.

[DarkAisling]

That's pretty gross. Looks like some sort of infection . . . perhaps it was badly hooked and is now on the mend?

[WayneChristie]

not sure. Im thinking its some sort of parasite, or maybe it got hit by a prop, tho I rarely see any powered boats in there. I dont eat any fish out of there anyways, just in case :) But there are a lot of them and they are usually hungry!

[WayneChristie]

looks like Dark Aisling wins the cookie, got a reply already today, those guys are fast!
"Thank you for contacting the Alberta Sustainable Resource Development
Information Centre.

I forwarded your pictures to a Senior Fisheries Technician who provided
the following response:

"From the photos this damage appears to be an infected prior hooking
injury. There may have been injury to the jaw thus inhibiting the pike's
ability to feed efficiently."

[DarkAisling]

Cookie!!!??? Yes please :D

[Fishfinder]

Gotta say Wayne..only been a member for a year or so here, but, Wow! U take some beautiful pics brother. Keep it up.! Ur slowly turning me into a Pike fisherman...though I do love my bows..n sturg..n well... Gr8 job with the pics man:D OH,almost forgot - the disease - its 'man nibbles fish but dont like it and tosses it back' disease....:)

[WayneChristie]

thanks FF, you arent far away, I will have to swap you a pike outing for a sturgeon outing, still waiting to catch my first, too busy with the pike :D I take most of my pics with the fishing rod in one hand and the cam in the other, I need a waterproof cover with all the pike splashes!!! part of the fun.

[Fishfinder]

thanks FF, you arent far away, I will have to swap you a pike outing for a sturgeon outing, still waiting to catch my first, too busy with the pike :D I take most of my pics with the fishing rod in one hand and the cam in the other, I need a waterproof cover with all the pike splashes!!! part of the fun.

Wayne, if pike is ur thing...then Rattlesnake (sauder res.) is ur lake...!perhaps? U can wrangle pike like mad once u know the spots and gauranteed beat ur personal best as far as # of pikeys caught ( from reading ur previous posts). However, they r by no means large....for what reason, I do not know. I believe the large ones r in there, though everyone tells me they r not??? Maybe they jus cant catch em??:D

[WayneChristie]

well my personal best from this lake is 38 in a few hours, and size wise 11 pounds. if I can beat that, Id be a happy camper. I do plan on trying that reservoir one of these days too, there are so many to chose from around it its crazy!

[Fishfinder]

u could likely do the same in #s if not better as far as fish caught Wayne, but as far as weight goes.... u aint gonna catch no 11 pd pike at Rattlesnake unfortunately:) Either or, a day on the lake at Sauder is good times! Visit poop (Seagull) island, got a gr8 pic of a rattler swimmin with me boat! Kept on attacking us from the water, had to toss him away with the oar several timesToo bad i am pic challenged? Would luv to post. Cheers all:)