Have u caught a fish missing an eye?

[FishingLunatic]

A couple days ago i fished the Jordan and caught a Utah Sucker without an eye. It had 1 but not the other. My first "weird" fish lol. All pictures are of the same fish.
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[CoyoteSpinner]

I thought that catfish you posted was one of the freakiest! Did you catch that?

I've come across fish with various deformities. That one looks like it happened a long time ago, and healed up nicely. Used to have an Iridescent shark in a fishtank- got attacked by a Firemouth Cyclid, and lost both eyes. But lived for many many years. The cyclid didn't get to stay in that tank!

Seen carp with all kinds of damage - there's so many of them, they randomly meet with props on occasion. But those suckers just don't quit!

Bass too - the way they attack at a crank, can get pretty wrapped up before being let go.

[Catcherman.]

I have caught tons of sucker with one eye also don't know how it happens? And also I have I have caught a few cats with only one eye.
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[FishingLunatic]

Oh lol I know what 1 ur talking about. No, I didn't catch that 1, my friend did. Most of the time my fish are normal and I've had several times where I hooked one and it went through the eye or something, but never had a totally eyeless fish. Unfortunately for this dude, his eyeless days of living are done cause he became my cat fish bait. But yeah, that trip was very interesting, I learned a few things and got to see like 40-50 suckers in 1 spot alone spawning.
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[FishingLunatic]

I don't know man, I've never caught 1 like this so I was wondering the same thing. Pollution, swimming into a sharp stick, or other?
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[cpierce]

I have seen a lot of fish with eye damage or only one eye. I think a lot of them were from hooks, especially trebles.
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[gstott]

There's an article in the April Bassmaster magazine about bass deformities, and that one is mentioned. It doesn't give any explanation though. It sounds like it does happen periodically. I guess it's like any other animal, there are chromosomal abnormalities for various reasons. Like people may have a club foot, no hand, or a cleft palate, some fish are just born a little differently.
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[RockyRaab]

Clearly, as some time, that fish was given a Daisy Red Ryder 250-shot Carbine.
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[riverdog]

I caught 3 cutthroats in a row out of a tiny stream that all had a severe cataract in their right eye. Had to be a genetic thing in that brood. My dogs ignored me and went running up the right bank and normally would have spooked most fish so it was good this was on the right side. If the next fishable stretch of water wasn't so a fight through brush to reach I wouldn't have even bothered to fish that stretch after the dog's ran up ahead of me.
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[Springbuck]

[quote RockyRaab]Clearly, as some time, that fish was given a Daisy Red Ryder 250-shot Carbine.[/quote]

Lolz. I have seen fish with bite marks from raprors, herons, turtles and other fish, so I dunno why one wouldn't lose an eye now and then. Cool, though.
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[Paulpro]

Maybe another sucker sucked its eye out[frown]

Crazy thing, one time using a Skitter walk hooked into a really nice Bass but got off near the boat, when checking out the lure found the EYEBALL on the back trebble!!!
very ..
Had to be at least a 5lb fish from the size of the eye..
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[gstott]

I've caught a bunch with eyes lost to injury before, but this sucker looks like it's more of a birth defect. According to the article I read, it happens.
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[Hornet]

Oh that is One-eyed Earl. He is the underwater pirate of Jordan Lake. Legends says he has a wooden caudal fin painted to look real.
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[CoyoteSpinner]

Arrrr - waaar's heees patch? Matey ought to have a patch ar'll say! Like any land-lubbing Pirate fish 'or the marsh! Arrrrr.

(shoot, I think I'm a wee bit late for talk like a Pirate week)

[loanfish]

I have caught this fish a number of times at the same spot.
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[FishingLunatic]

Lol that's funny. It looks like u found his home . My fish was normal but last year I had a cat fish that I literally couldn't stop catching for about 3 weeks. He looked really unique and recognizable so it was easy to tell and I'd fish like 3+ days a week and see him day after day.
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[loanfish]

HaHa nice! After the 2nd time i caught this sucker i named him "One eyed Willie". I havent seen him though in 5 months or so. i hope all is well with him.[cool][:p][]
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[FishingLunatic]

Yea neither have I. It's like I was catching him every day and then I forgot all about him untill u said u kept catching 1. I always wished I was a biologist and could put tracking devices on my fish, just for pure curiosity of their migratory patterns. Plus then you'd know when u weren't getting any bites if he's there but just not hungry.
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[Hornet]

I am a biologist but I would with insect though, specifically earwigs. I paint a color coded dot system on them and do what we call Capture-mark-recapture. It's a lot of fun. I think many of the marked fish tourneys are geared towards estimating the population size (# of marked vs. unmarked relative to # that were marked in the first place). Since I catch them multiple times, I can track the movement of any given individual.
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