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So I headed out to Constance Lake today to get some pike....and crappie...well I caught a ton of pike and one very 'special' one.....looks like he has got flesh-eating disease.....or something like that....I dunno...He has many large areas where they are raised and soft, like there's no color...just scales on top of meat....it's kinda hard to explain....wish I could successfully post pics here....
Can someone help me out...I'll e-mail them the pics and they can post them up cuz clearly its not working for me.....followed everything there is from the 'How to..' Forum....
Anyways, I didn't put this fish back.....hoping to get some answer to what this could be from the MNR.....
yeah i put him back....
i remmember posting a thread about it and people saying that i was normal.......
lampray maybe?????? i dont rememeber!!!
those things actualy heal............................
once i went fishing and this guy was catching pike.......
putting them on a chain.... i figured hey hes oging to have a hell of a meal.......
walk back to my car and he was parked beside me .....
well this ''fisherman'' left befor me and he had dumped all his pikes on the side of his car .......... 6 pike and they had those tumor looking flesh out of the scale weird cancerish thigny.......................
i usualy just put them back in and hope they heal...
Weird....why keep them if youre just gonna waste 'em....Don't think they're lamprey....this stuff is from the inside....there are still scales all over the areas....well I'm gonna see what the ministry says....maybe they can shed some light on it....
Mind if I send you the pics and if you could put them up for me....??
What you saw could have been a lymphosarcoma tumour. The tumours can be fairly common in pike and muskie populations infecting up to 16% of the individuals. It's contagious between fish (pike and muskies) but not to humans.
"Lymphosarcoma is a malignant blood cancer which is highly contagious. The disease is associated with the skin and is manifested by skin lesions and tumours (Figures 7 and . Although some superficial lesions may regress, the tumour usually results in the death of the fish. Sonstegard and Hnath (1978) reported that lymphosarcoma may infect as high as 16% of feral populations of muskellunge."
. Although some superficial lesions may regress, the tumour usually results in the death of the fish. Sonstegard and Hnath (1978) reported that lymphosarcoma may infect as high as 16% of feral populations of muskellunge."
Pretty gross indeed