Overbite Steelie

So I caught this guy over the weekend and he was just goofy looking with a huge overbite.  Just weird looking!  He was also beat up -- looked like bite wounds.
 

 

thats pretty ugly man, looks painful.  im comin up this weekend if ur gonna be around ill call u i got a new rod to try out

Does anyone have any idea how many fish run the streams, and never make it back to being healthy enough to run again the following season? Doesnt look like a lampray mark to me, not real sure tho

Grappler - I'll be around this weekend -- call me and we'll hit the streams. 
 
I don't know if it was a lamprey or not -- it kind of looked like the skin was almost rotting right where the holes are.  Could have been from a lamprey but wasn't sure.  He had one more small hole in his other side also.  Lamprey wounds are usually pretty circular -- the hole closer to this steelie's head is a little odd-shaped but who knows.  He was released to swim again...

snaggers?
i've come across a few trout now and then in streams through out the commenwealth. i believe these are trout that got away from a hawk or kingfishers talons. it looks like the marks above the side wounds tends me to believe it got away from something from above it. if it had a single scar on the other side this would make me more believe it was from a hawk or something to that nature.

Looks like talon marks to me.

It might have been bigfoot but you would have to ask Mikastorm to be sure.

raccoon

This fish was from 20 mile -- but talon marks I'm not sure of.  Those other darker spots above the wounds seem like they could have been about to do the same thing as the wounds below (you can see the same dark pattern around the outer edges like the skin ate itself from the center out). 
 
I personally think it could be some sort of bacteria growth or something that was literally eating away at this steelie.

 

Eagle picked him up, then realized he tasted like schiesse.

Tippy i think your right though.

looks like a bite mark from a canine.

sure looks like talons to me.  the open wounds from the sharp ends and the black line above is just missing scales that were rubbed off.

ORIGINAL: kyler16

should of kept it more then likely it wont survive the season. Prime fish for a trade.

Why do you say that????  Maybe the one you got in return would be worse...

Besides I doubt that Gary would allow that to happen
 
BTW This is one of those times

lol dude kyler think about what you just said.  "the fish's flesh is visible which means open sores for bacteria." your basically inviting a trade in for a fish that could potentially have bacteria??? if someone brought that fish to me i'd have to refuse them.   Erie streams arent clean man, no matter what anyone says.  My friend got sick from eating a fish that came out of 16 mile, not saying it was infested with bacteria, but the context of the stream COULD have had somthing to do with it. This fish comes out of 20 mile, what happens if all that agricultural runoff that 20 mile recieves has some sort of bacterium from cow crap that infects this steelie then spreads to the smoked fillet you trade in?  Chances are this thing will die within a few weeks anyways, let the thing take out its life course and perhaps provide food for the small amount of macro/micro invertabrae that the tribs do have.  I would refrain from trading fish in with open sores like this.  Its just a breeding ground for bacterium.