a birth defect??

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Comment by Slip Sinker on June 26, 2015 at 8:13am

working with aquarium fishes a great deal of my life ... a fin wound turned fungal infection will heal similar to that also.

Comment by Allen Morgan on June 26, 2015 at 7:00am

Turtle?

Comment by carl hendrix on June 25, 2015 at 10:00pm

thanks for all the answers guys;; this is the first one I have seen like this;;  and I let him go to!

Comment by Jim Gronaw on June 25, 2015 at 9:45pm

Carl...I see stuff like this a good bit in my region. We have ospreys, hawks, eagles, herons and the shallow bedding gills are especially vulnerable to air attacks when they are nesting. That one you have clearly survived a serious wound at one time earlier in life and looks to have healed over completely.

I recently saw some fairly fresh wounds on 10-inch class fish at one of my favorite lakes. Crazy!

Comment by Tony Livingston on June 25, 2015 at 8:23pm

Maybe a healed over stab wound from a Heron.

Comment by Slip Sinker on June 25, 2015 at 7:54pm

looks like your only missing 1/2" or so out of the tenderloins...lol

Comment by Slip Sinker on June 25, 2015 at 7:43pm

picture this... bluegill sunning on the surface... then a bass boat goes by at 80 mph

Comment by Mike Martin on June 25, 2015 at 4:59pm

Looks like something got it a while back.