Strange Trout

[Snooker]

Hey all,
My son and I went out to the SS Monday afternoon. Stayed till around 4am. There is some bait available but you have to work for them. We caught threads, pinfish and way too many small ladyfish on sabiki rigs. The ladyfish were tearing my rigs up. Saw a nice 24" gag caught just north of last restroom. My son caught a specked trout. When he pulled it up, we noticed it had no tail. Thought maybe a shark bit him while reeling in. Looking closer the wound was healed over on the fish tail. Somehow he was surviving tho, I don't know how. Check out the pic. Otherwise it was slow night with a couple cats caught.

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Have a good one

[bcc]

Thats an odd lookign trout. Its gonna be a while tills hes a keep seeing how you dont have a tail to measure. It will probably be eating by another sea creature or be kept under size long before its becomes legal size anyway.

[Snooker]

LOL Didn't even think about what if he was close to keeper size. How would ya measure it?? Afraid da lil ole fish sqirmmed outta his hands, bumped his lil head on the pavement and died a horrible death. LOL Seriously now, we should all always try to release undersized fish in good shape. But this guy, it wasn't his day. He floated off with the tide.

[dlkpalmetto]

that trout sure was unusual, I caught a snook bout 20 inches and his gills were exposed on one side like something cut off the outer gill cover...seemed to be ok with it......also trout very sensitive to humans hands and rags, seems that touching them immediately takes off their protective slime and they get and infection and die....more so than any other fish I believe..I try to stick my thumb in their mouth to unhook and release...and damn if nmy thumb doesnt look like raw meat so i put adhesive tape on if i kno im going trout fishing....kip