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There was a post a while back with a picture of a Brookie with a spine deformity. I caught this guy today...first one I've ever personally encountered like this. I've caught a few that had a little bit of an odd curve to their spine, but this guy looks like the lower Conodoguinet. The second pic is a more mild example of this.
Like grouse mentioned in the other post, these fish seemed otherwise healthy. The first pic came from a pretty good, healthy Poconos stream, and the second was from a recovering AMD stream. Genetic deformity? Attach file:  05-16-13 (17) PAFF.jpg (112.42 KB) 06-24-12 (1) PAFF.jpg (60.19 KB)
Posted on: 2013/5/6 21:54
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could be whirling
Posted on: 2013/5/7 1:20
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That first one is insane. I've never seen anything like it.
Posted on: 2013/5/7 6:58
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I think you nailed it.
Posted on: 2013/5/7 7:04
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I'd be careful with throwing things like that around. It could be whirling, I dunno. But other diseases, and simple injury, can cause the same thing.
Whirling is generally a hatchery problem in the east. In the west it has established in some wild trout populations, and decimated them. Submit it to the PFBC.
Posted on: 2013/5/7 7:42
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Probably a genetic abnormality. Whirling Disease, doubtful. GG
Posted on: 2013/5/7 7:47
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Scoliosis.
Posted on: 2013/5/7 8:49
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If that fish got whirling disease, it would probably have died long before it got that big. That is a decent sized brookie. Fish tend to contract and die from whirling disease when there younger.
Posted on: 2013/5/7 13:38
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That happens due to electro-shocking when they are small.
Posted on: 2013/5/7 18:47
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That first pick is mental, in 30 years of fishing I've never seen anything like it.
You'd think it would hinder it swimming, feeding etc. Incredible !
Posted on: 2013/5/7 23:15
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Talking to a fellow who owns a private hatchery and he says he loses more fish to lightening than anything....i vote lightening bolt.
Posted on: 2013/5/8 8:02
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I was out the other weekend and spotted this little guy. Looks similar.
Posted on: 2013/5/14 23:43
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Multiple possible causes. See this once or twice yearly in wild populations around SE Pa. Also saw it in other parts of the state over the years.
Posted on: 2013/5/15 7:32
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I always thought that those swayback fish survived a heron attack, I've seen them all over the state. That would be my best guess.
Posted on: 2013/5/15 7:40
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In over 50 years of fishing I've never seen this, Pretty sure it's not whirling disease, though it's been present in PA streams since the mid-50's. It would kill the fish before it reached maturity. what stream, so we can look for more instances?
Posted on: 2013/5/15 8:31
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