I caught this girl today. Has a hump on her back. Never saw one with it before???? Why is this?

Injury, congenital deformity, disease, malnutrition. Happens now and again.

Quasimodo

Quasimodo. I'm crying.........lol

I have seen this before as well. J.Franco said it best.

The pond usually has healthy fish in it where I caught her. Maybe a deformity. However, the fight was from a well conditioned fish. I thought my line was going to snap. Seriously........

This ugly mutt of a brown trout put up a good fight.  BTW, that's laying flat, lol.

 

Francho that's awesome. :-)

This ugly mutt of a brown trout put up a good fight.  BTW, that's laying flat, lol.

 

Have any other pictures of that fish?

Jeff

No, just the one.  It was around 6 lbs. - not pic worthy.  Unusual, but can happen with farm raised fish.

I've seen a few pike like this from my lake. I believe when they're very young and get hooked aggressively it may damage the growth on their upper mouth. Just a theory, but thought I'd share on this topic of mutants.

That is not me by the way. lol

 

I caught this girl today. Has a hump on her back. Never saw one with it before???? Why is this?

 

Quite odd. Seen some strange malformities (sp?) in bass, most, I think, due to injury from water birds.

 

Just don't drink that water, eh? LOL

I seem to have the touch to catch deformed bass. Humpbacks, sway backs, sawed offs, I seem to catch them all. Most of them will have an obvious sign of injury on them somewhere that caused it. 

We catch small humpback largemouth bass on the Chickahominy River in Virginia, usually in the back of Shipyard Creek.

 

Have been catching them for years.

 

No idea of why the humpback but we just kiss them and throw them back.

Let's add "mr. Squiggles" to the list of deformities.

Let's add "mr. Squiggles" to the list of deformities.

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Mr. Squiggles looks like he's got scoliosis