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I have been fishing dark-water creeks and canals lately and most of the Snook that I am seeing have similar sores on the tops of their heads. Could it be from the quality of the water or a bacteria? It almost looks as if the scales were scraped off.
Anyways, yesterday I took a vacation day and fished with Rick aka, "fishvision". We saw and missed many big linesiders and started off with some little Snooklets on topwaters. Then, mid-morning I got this 34"er on a Yozuri Crystal Minnow. The fish don't act sick. They still fight hard and swim away strong. I just haven't noticed the sores in years past.
That's weird about the sores..could it be from paddling on their heads too many times? Nice snook..I've been trying deep dark creeks but it might be a little too warm back where I'm at.
If you were in the area I think you were I also saw some very large Snook that had all kinds of marks or sores in that srea. Could be the water quality there could be that it is upstream from a spot that has had alot of construction ie explosions. Could the Snook have been beat up from falling debri from those exsposions?
ive seen them like that too down here since I was a kid. I think when they move into the canals and rivers in the winter they feed between the mangroves and they get like that from the abrasion. I've seen them like that before....
I think a gill net is usually a death sentence for a big snook.
In the dead of summer you'll catch snook that have major lesions on one side. Those ones are from people "sand dragging" a snook to land them on the beaches.
In my experiences in the wintertime, about one in 20 snook have markings like this on them. I think that some of them are abrasions from a hooked fish taking to stucture, like a dock, bridge or roots and making contact with the structure when the line causes them to be tangled in the structure.
I could hypothesize another thing this could be: The lead line from a cast net. Another popular way of poaching snook is to cast net them in the coldest months. I could imagine seeing the fish temporarily having the side fine caught in the mesh with the lead line over its side and leaving a "one-side" abrasion.
I see redfish get sores like that one them from being in a school and rubbing against one another. This time of year the snookschool up when they move into the creeks and rivers, perhaps it's from bumping heads with one another.
LivelyBaits wrote:In the dead of summer you'll catch snook that have major lesions on one side. Those ones are from people "sand dragging" a snook to land them on the beaches.
In my experiences in the wintertime, about one in 20 snook have markings like this on them. I think that some of them are abrasions from a hooked fish taking to stucture, like a dock, bridge or roots and making contact with the structure when the line causes them to be tangled in the structure.
I could hypothesize another thing this could be: The lead line from a cast net. Another popular way of poaching snook is to cast net them in the coldest months. I could imagine seeing the fish temporarily having the side fine caught in the mesh with the lead line over its side and leaving a "one-side" abrasion.
Can fish suffer damage that is not caused by human interaction?
Me, personally, I would not go in the water past my knees if I were catching snook with sores like that. A sore like that in the wrong place would be very hard to explain.
You know what La Quinta means in English? Behind Dennys. MarkM
Nice snook..I've been trying deep dark creeks but it might be a little too warm back where I'm at.
