Deformed bass

[harleywizard]

Several years ago I caught several bass on West Point that were deformed. They had a mouth the size of a 2 to 2 1/2 lb fish but the body was not 12 inches long and curved. I have not seen one in quite a while. I was wondering if anyone else had seen this in any other lakes?

[fishtale75]

Those fish were "stunted", a friend of mine bought a farm that had two ponds on it and one pond was normal and the other had fish like you are talking bout there wasn't enuff bream, shad or whatever else they were eating to go around and there was to many bass, come to find out the pond with the stunted fish was only like 5 yrs old and the guy had only put bass in it, he didn't put any forage fish in it

[harleywizard]

These had a bad curvature of the spine. Healthy looking other than the scoliosis.

[bassamasta]

I have caught many like that in West Point, one in Allatoona, and a couple in Sinclair. It really screws up the length of the fish if you are looking to fill a limit.

[fishtale75]

Oh well it may be something different then, maybe the scoliosis stunted their normal growth reason why they had larger heads than their body I have caught a couple hump back bass I figured something had tried to eat similar, but it may've been some variation of scoliosis

[Mike Bucca]

I catch tons of them ugly looking things when I g0 hawg hunting with swimbaits. Story of my life catching a largemouth with a 6lb head and a 2lb body. Lots of spots with the broke spine looking deal as well.

Mike

[Ron288]

i've also cought two like that up at carter.

[lakehartwellpro]

There every where in Hartwell but most of them like that are redeye.

[basshammer]

I have caught some of them also.
I've had a few so bad that looked like they would only be able to swim in circles.
I never noticed more in any particular lake though.

[bfriendly]

I caught one in Kellogg Creek, right at the marker as you are heading way back in the creek, maybe 2 months ago.............his back looked like a "Camel"..........but no tissue damage at all............

[harleywizard]

That's right they're just stunted but look healthy in other respects.

[waterworld]

toona is full of them ..