How Much Can They Take

[profisher]

Thought it might be interesting to see some pics of fish with nasty injuries that have been caught but were seemingly doing alright. Here is one to start it off.

 

[hooktender68]

Heavily sustained injury

This particular one couldn't take any more damage! lol

 

[FishBC.org]

View attachment 2777 This particular one couldn't take any more damage! lol

The look on the face is priceless haha.

 

[adrianna3]

I hate it when that happens!

 

[Hookin'up]

View attachment 2777 This particular one couldn't take any more damage! lol

some people hold them well out in front to make them look a little bigger ya know

 

[Charter Tofino]

This guy must have really taken a hurting before he hit our gear. Didn't fight well though.

And this guy

 

[wolf]

I dont have a pic of it but got a fish with a tumor in its gut about the size of a hardball it was the first thing I noticed when netting it. Dont know what it was it was just this big blob of " yellow substance" Glad I didnt keep it Im sure it was fine as it was a heathy fish in the high 20s but still mkaes you think????

wolf

 

[GLG]

Don't have any pictures but at brood stock capture this year we found a Coho that was marked up from a gillnet. Didn't think they would survive that encounter but she proved me wrong. Wonder how many of our Coho became crab food when they were released, anyone know what the survival rate is for Coho released from a gillnet?
GLG

 

[yo mama]

Wolf I seem to recall one of our springs this summer with a "abnormality" in it stomach too....lol

 

[Englishman]

This is not a salmon but I caught this trout from Durrance Lake that showed incredible resiliency. It had a hook that was protruding out of the stomach wall and through the body cavity and the point was impaled back in the body. Meanwhile the leader attached to the eye of the hook inside the stomach ran the length of the gut and out of the vent. This trout fed and fought just like a normal fish and I cannot understand why infection had not killed it even if the injury did not. I attach photos which illustrate.

 

[Sea Ranger]

Wow! I've never seen a fish with a hook stuck in its side like that. Truly weird.

 

[Englishman]

Yep, I thought it was a really a really weird one too and could not understand it when I found it. The hook must have been swallowed and worked its way point first outwards through the stomach to stick itself back in the body, since the eye of the hook was still inside the fish and the leader ran back all the way through to the vent. A fish, though small, of truly iron constitution to survive that!