Battle scarred cats

[Trophy Hunter639]

Here is a cat my cousin caught that had no tail! Here is one that i caught with a big chunk out of it's head.

[grumpymoe]

interesting pics TH....i think we talked briefly about those last trip...reminds me of my ex boss....had a topline crestliner tourney boat afew years ago...headed up to some unknown part of the assiniboine...you should have seen the hull when he got back...never mind what his expensive prop looked like...used it for grinding fish and rocks....ho hum to him....got a new prop...and sent the boat to the body shop....too much money i guess.....and likely whacked a few fish running the shallows...maybe one of these met up with him.....grump

[Trophy Hunter639]

That's kinda what Rm and myself were thinking I got some more on the way of battle wounds.

[Skiff]

Somebody posted a note some time back about open sores on channel cats.  Said it was a bacterial skin infection that mostly hits males after spawning, and may go right to the bone, but the cats recover over the fall and winter.  Some of the sores on your cats may be due to the infection, but others could well be boat traffic and prop cuts.

[Trophy Hunter639]

Thanks for that bit of info Mono very interesting

[Reelmaster]

Ya it seems like the red has the beauties and the assiniboine get the rejects eh th?

[Trophy Hunter639]

ROFLMAO Too funny Rm (we call the Assinniboine cats the Red river rejects)

[camo_fish]

Here is a 22" I got last night that has a nasty under his mouth.

MMMMM!

[big walleye]

Hey trophy that cat and I have something in common. No tail happening here either. God I have sick humour. I agree with Grump as the river is so shallow that many are probably getting hit.

[TroutFishingBear]

I have a pic. similar to this with brown trout. It isn't of me, but of my brother. It was during the spawn he cauhgt like a 17 " male with a huge chunk out of it.

[Trophy Hunter639]

TFB post er up i shouldn't have only said cats hell anyone who has a pic of a fish they caught that is beat up or just looks weird post it here i'd like to see them!