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i am back home for a minute. and went fishing right away. i went to a spot i have fished before and hooked a few fish last time but with no success, today was quite the opposite.
hooked and landed 13 fish. one of which was a fish i had hooked into and it broke me last time i fished the spot..how did i know it was the same fish you may ask!! well I am the only one I know of that fishes maniac custom lures in the area and I'm the only one I know of that rigs them the same way as me.. and i found my rig in its throat..and he was a porker.. only 22" but very fat. caught his anorexic brother out of the same hole.. now to what i was writing this to start with,, i caught a brown today that had a pretty odd wound. it looks like some one took it and tried to rip its head off and failed. here take a look
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That is nasty - what a weird wound!
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I'm guessing it was hit by a bird of prey and escaped.
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its possible, he seemed healthy. he was around 16 17 inches. that wound was the worst he was covered in battle wounds all over his tail was torn up and his dorsal fin was torn up he was pretty haggard.
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Any chance he had been in a reservoir? I've seen fish out of a reservoir that appeared to have had an argument with a prop.
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odd, thats the second jacked brown i have seen this week, i caught one myself
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That is a nansty wound. Sounds like this guy has had some battles.
I don't think it's a prop wound since it's on the belly side. Surprised he made it.
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any chance it could be spawning wounds? Just a thought? It does look like someone had tried to rip hits head off
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no chance of a reservoir for this guy.. or boats.. the spot he came from is a long ways from any reservoir. or a spot where a boat would be..a very tight section of brush he was in the middle of a bunch of carp
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could be i supposed, there are much bigger browns it the area this one came from, i had a chaser that would have easily broke my personal best for length on brown trout.. the section of river I am fishing does not get fished at all. i think because no one knows about it.. it is a very tight section of river.. lots of small falls with big holes. and a few straits that are pebbly with good dense shrubberies, and lots of thick cover.. the big one i scene came out of a really thick pile of branches on a bend, the biggest fish i pulled out yesterday was 22" 2 of them that size actually one was very fat and healthy and the other was a snake.. but the one i scene was much bigger hard to judge size under water but he looked like he was 5+ inches longer and his mouth was huge.. got a feeling he is still there and plan on going after him in the next couple of days... reason i think he is still there is because he went strait back to his hiding spot and he didnt have many places to go from where he was he had a water fall 10 feet behind him and another 20 feet in front so he was pretty well stuck..
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Looks like an eagle or osprey tried to grab it and the claw ripped through. Given the environment, that's the only thing I could think of that would leave a wound with such straight, clean edges.
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