Mutants

[andrew_bell]

The Thread on your Fall Brownies got me looking at some Brownies that I have caught over the years and up came this guy caught last Spring in NZ South Island.

He seemes to have survived quite well despite his obvious spinal deformity and put up a great fight, taking me way into my backing in the fast spring flows.

Anyone else caught any strange looking mutants?

[Cameron Mortenson]

Andrew Bell…great (BIG) brown.

[Tim Pommer]

Andrew,

I’ve caught a brown (not nearly as big) with the same deformation.

[regan c. kenyon jr.]

You think its a healed broken spine from being attacked as a younger fish?

[Mark Landerman]

Micah…..you need to post that photo of “Old Humpy.”

[micah lauer]

Haha, pour a sip for Ol’ Humpy.  He hasn’t been seen for over a season, that old dolphin humped son of a bitch.

[Mark Landerman]

[Joel Thompson]

Lando, is that some kind of freak porn star fish? That is freaky!

Micah humpy is cool looking old dude!

Joel

[anonymous]

definitely some sort of spinal defect on that brown.

I caught an erie steelhead once with a wal-mart bag sticking out its butt.

[micah lauer]

This guy’s back was kinked like he’d suffered whirling disease or some trauma earlier in life:

Not to mention the pot belly like a bass.

[keith b]

I caught this one a couple of years ago on the Hooch DH, any comments on possible cause?

[andrew_bell]

Looks like someone superglued its bottom lip to its plate

[greg reynolds]

Deformed spine and a short jaw:

[anonymous]

I have a pic somewhere of a 20″ rainbow I caught on the NB potomac a few years ago- it had a stomach full of acorns.

[andrew_bell]

Cool, some great shots there !!

[kevin miquelon]

Wow…call the EPA!

[c. taylor geraldson]

Interesting topic.  Two summers ago I was guiding a pair of spin-casting Minnesotans when one of them pulled in this Chernobylian creature.  It was almost noon and it was to be our lunch fish, I decided to wait on the next one . . .

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