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possible spear wound???

MuskyChad

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RK Grand Master

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Well, I can say with certainty I've seen spear wounds that were more obviously spear wounds, but it's possible. Could also be a prop wound, as Friar Tuck said, or another injury or just a plain birth defect.

Oddly enough, the location makes me think it might not be a spear wound. Most of the spear wounded muskies I've seen or seen photos of have been speared right in the middle of the body.

Who knows. Good news is flash around it didn't look necrotic and the fish looked pretty healthy. Amazing how little it takes to kill one in one case and how much it takes in others...

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Rob Kimm

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I was thinking the same thing Rob; this if it was a spear was a kill shot and most poachers don't want dead evidence under the shack. Its possible it could have been a Blue Heron puncture when the fish was much smaller.Ive seen a couple Trout with healed up and fresh wounds from those.

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I was thinking the same thing Rob; this if it was a spear was a kill shot and most poachers don't want dead evidence under the shack. Its possible it could have been a Blue Heron puncture when the fish was much smaller.Ive seen a couple Trout with healed up and fresh wounds from those.

I caught a largemouth bass on Lake George that had recently escaped from a heron. Hole all the way through the fish from one side of the dorsal fin to low on the opposite side. You could actually see through the fish. Who knows if it survived but it hit a buzzbait... Weird deal.

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WTH Merk. He was agreeing with RK that it didn't look like a spear wound. The statement about poachers not wanting proof under their house sounds logical. How many people who do illegal things try to leave evidence laying around.

Good to see merk is still extremely sensitive.

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It's not a spear wound. A spear would leave a vertical scar, and from the tines I've seen on spears they would leave puncture wounds that would fully heal if the fish survived.

From the looks of it, if it was an injury it occurred a very long time ago. The flesh is very smooth, healthy and streamlined around it. I would say it is most likely a birth defect. While it is most notable on the backside of the head, if you look the head to body transition is a little odd all the way around the fish. Another option is it got something stuck around its head for a while.

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merk has a bunch of stuff on standby to copy and paste whenever he gets a topic here. saves him from actually having to read other peoples posts and respond, that's why all of his posts get to sounding the same after awhile. it's like mexican food, always the same stuff, just put together in a different order.

pic really looks like a scar from getting munched by a heron to me.

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WTH Merk. He was agreeing with RK that it didn't look like a spear wound. The statement about poachers not wanting proof under their house sounds logical. How many people who do illegal things try to leave evidence laying around.

Good to see merk is still extremely sensitive.

I know where Merk was coming form when the title of this is possible spear wound in the muskie forum the finger has already been pointed as spear fisherman weather it was a spear mark or not so i can understand why he was a little mad about it because the finger is always pointed at spear fisherman first and other possible things second.

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