Strange Looking Cod

[Elton]

http://www.nesa.co.uk/photopost/showphoto.php/photo/133/

 

Looks like it swam into a rock!

[glennk]

rather deformed

 

Once had one with 2 mouths

[JB]

Here's a grownup one!

www.chieftaincharters.co.uk/TWO%20UGLY%20BASTARDS%202(1).jpg

[maidstonemike]

Probably lives near a nuclear power station.

[Elton]

Yeuch! Have you seen many like that, John?

[JB]

Yeuch! Have you seen many like that, John?

Over the years, eight or ten a year; that one in the aptly-titled photo being the biggest, at 20+ pounds. It was caught east of the Dogger Bank, in the Clay Deep - about 134 miles ENE of Whitby.

 

JB

Edited June 4, 2007 by John and Michele

[Norm B]

http://www.nesa.co.uk/photopost/showphoto.php/photo/133/

 

Looks like it swam into a rock!

Looks like its a cod/gurnard cross.

[Ken Davison South Wales]

Its like anything else, some times nature plays some cruel tricks, I currently have a 40mm goldfish which was born without a tail, strangely it is bigger than the rest of the youngsters, maybe due to all the extra exercise it gets,

 

Nickname STUMP

[ColinW]

I've had a couple of deformed golden orfe in my pond. One just had some genetic problem that kinked its spine into a "Z" shape. The other was my fault I'm afraid. I'd dropped a small piece of garden netting in the pond and it had somehow managed to get it over its head and trapped behind its gills. I didn't notice for a couple of years, by which time it had grown much bigger than the mesh would allow. I cut it off but it never did grow back to its proper shape. It lived for another ten years, packing on as much weight as the rest, so, like that big cod, serious deformity doesn't seem to disadvantage fish as much as you'd think.

[Norrie]

http://www.nesa.co.uk/photopost/showphoto.php/photo/133/

 

Looks like it swam into a rock!

 

 

Elton, You should try fishing round about Faslane Sub base,,...things with three eyes etc etc....like something out the Simpsons....