Wierd Night Down Sandown

[I.O.W BassBoy]

had a little session down then yaverland a few days ago only produced one undulate ray on a squid and macky cocktailand a few pout on the rag....

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on the way back we saw a smooth-hound led on the beach still alive!..

it was wasaly a 10lber but as i picked it up to try and help it survive i noticed it had a hole in the top of its skull..


any ideas on what happend ? netting maybe?....

dazza :)

[BaggieRich]

Caught in a net and attacked by a cuttle or something? Dunno if a net on it's own would put a hole in a fish like that? Mind you, if it was a net, wouldn't there likely be other marks on the fish as well?

[PikeHunter]

Looks to me like a couple have went down the beach for a bit of how's your father and the female has trod on this poor critter with her high heel boot.

[geejayy]

tis a job to tell what the damage was , it looks possibly infected, like an ulcer
if the fish was a trout i'd say its U, D, N.
but i think that affects only salmoniods .
might be something simmalar though, an infected small wound.