Craziest fish I have ever caught.

[Muddy Bud]

Rutted out

[El Paisano]

Looks like overpopulation of bass with not enough forage fish.

[catslayer]

That fish is a text book result of an overpopulated pond/tank.

Or retaining plastics... if its a tank I would have cut him open and seen, if its plastics you know you need to be more aware of throwing them in. if its overpopulation you helped haha

[W E H]

can't say it enough fish is starving.

you either need to cull fish or add lots of things for them to eat or both

[Oleman]

Caught one like that one in a huge pond and noticed an orange-colored object poking out its arse. Looked like part of a plastic worm. Pulled it out and it was part of a plastic worm and even part of a rusted hook. Put him back and he swam off slowly. Please throw trash in a bag, not into a lake/pond.

[Lynn21]

Too many fish there.

[bullets13]

Caught a few of those over the years. Usually in ponds with poor forage, but occasionally in a lake.

[Man]

I have caught several like that. I cut open the last one..... Zoom fluke. Haven't tossed a used soft plastic in the water since.

[Hoggslayer]

I have caught several like that. I cut open the last one..... Zoom fluke. Haven't tossed a used soft plastic in the water since.

I've killed a lot more fish using live bait than plastics. Most of the time a bass will spit a artificial lure; but live bait goes straight down the gullet along with the hook.

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[BO-N-ARO]

Catch anything else? Did they look normal?

Caught several others all in great shape.
This is a 6/7 acres pound and fish it often and always catch fish. It has a good population of green perch.

[Man]

I've killed a lot more fish using live bait than plastics. Most of the time a bass will spit a artificial lure; but live bait goes straight down the gullet along with the hook.

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Just so that i was clear im not saying i dont fish with plastic baits....i just dont toss broken, torn, ripped plastics overboard anymore ( i shouldnt have been doing that anyways). I was uneducated on how actually long those plastics last on the bottom of the lakes/ ponds and fish still continue to eat them over and over again.

[Mitchell8]

Carnivore diet works

[xman59]

Caught this fish this morning on a soft plastic. I felt drag and thought I had grabbed a wad of moss. All of a sudden I see this huge mouth !! He acted dead, not moving at all. His head is like a 3 to 4 pounder and didn’t weigh but a bit over a pound! I set him in the water and he slowly swam off. Crazy just how skinny this fish was! Creeped me out!!

a liberal bass, cant tell food from plastic,,, keeps falling for the same old lines..

[Tbar]

That is a bass that is at the end of his life. A cull. You should have thrown him up on the bank.

[Fooser]

Seen this a lot in catch and release lakes…. Biologists told me it was just a really old fish that can no longer process proteins…. All they do is eat. They need to be removed. He fave me a weight vs length chart to identify which fish to cull.