Close up pictures of the potential WR fluke

TimS · 08-21-2007, 05:41 PM

For all the folks that wanted to see better pictures of the damage to the gigantic fluke that has sparked all kinds of debate - here yah go

**these pictures were allowed, by the photographer, to be posted here and only here - if you want to show them on another site, link to this thread, not the images themselves

TimS

wishin4fishin · 08-21-2007, 05:44 PM

look what a gillnet can do....

that is BS the lady cut the glills to get he jig back a spro jig is about 2$
she got those wat 3 other records thats nice....nice way to use a draggers catch rather then your own

i can tell everyone why it is beat up so bad it was in the draggers ice chest frozen for a week that thing looks like they played fizbee with it

chicky · 08-21-2007, 05:44 PM

38 inches. damn!!

Chris N · 08-21-2007, 05:45 PM

that's the ugliest, most rancid looking fluke i've ever seen. it's entire head is red. the eyes don't even look real. they're not bulging or anything. looks like a fish caught in a net to me. hope i'm wrong but... something's not kosher.

TimS · 08-21-2007, 05:48 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by wishin4fishin

look what a gillnet can do....

that is BS the lady cut the glills to get he jig back a spro jig is about 2$
she got those wat 3 other records thats nice....nice way to use a draggers catch rather then your own

Please, let's keep the absolutely unfounded speculation down to suspicion - you have no proof it was a dragger fish, please don't pretend that these pictures prove it was caught by a dragger - they do not.

TimS

BassHunter · 08-21-2007, 05:50 PM

woah look at the shoulder on that thing!

Looks like a linebacker!

TheSpaniard · 08-21-2007, 05:50 PM

Are those the eyes? Fish caught in a gill net usually have red bloodshot eyes because the blood vessels explode as they suffocate. Same thing happens when you strangle someone. I dunno this fish story just keeps getting worse. I was watching the show dirtiest jobs a week or so ago and the guy was filleting up fish at a process plant and all the fish coming in looked rancid just like this one. I even said to my bro I can't believe people eat fish that look like that before being cut up.

John

3D · 08-21-2007, 05:52 PM

When were those pics taken? b/c it looks like it was dead for a while...Dead lookin' eyes.

Vinny · 08-21-2007, 05:52 PM

The story is she caught the fluke, called the B&T and hurried that fish to the scale?

Not that she continued to fish while that fish sat in the hot sun all day long and its eyes baked????

Or did the fish have cataracts??? It was big and old and all.

If they tried to sell me a fish that looked like that at Shoprite, I would laugh in their face.

Looks ripe to me.

wishin4fishin · 08-21-2007, 05:52 PM

i have proff if you ever on a dragger and see the fish come up with thier exploded eyes in the net and get droped on the deck with all the men picking them up and stepping on them you wil know what i mean until then......

ItsaFluke86 · 08-21-2007, 05:54 PM

those cuts look like they were made to bleed the fish in an attempt to eat it at a later time, i dont think i could beat a fish up that bad trying to get a jig back...how big was the jig anyway, a 20 ounce spro?

hope it wasnt gill netted

Ditch Jigger · 08-21-2007, 05:58 PM

Good point about the eyes. One of the things they tell you to look for when trying to choose fresh fish--for the table and for bait--is clear eyes.

I don't fish for fluke often enough to judge the rest of it. I know bass usually get that pooled blood in the tail around 12 hours after they're dead.

Gloucester2 · 08-21-2007, 05:58 PM

I'm as skeptical as the next guy . . . but one observation. The gills in the first shot look pretty bright red. I'm not as familiar with fluke as I am with cod and other groundfish - but the gills of those creatures discolor rapidly after death . . . we even evaluate whether to release fish (an otherwise keeper) based on if it has "pink gill" and indication it may not make it

TimS · 08-21-2007, 06:01 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by wishin4fishin

i have proff if you ever on a dragger and see the fish come up with thier exploded eyes in the net and get droped on the deck with all the men picking them up and stepping on them

Ahhh...so your proof is you saw fish like that on a dragger? Do you have any pictures so we can compare them?

TimS

sc537 · 08-21-2007, 06:01 PM

Has anyone seen the Fluke on the cover page of the LI edition "The Fisherman".it has the same cut below the gills as Monica's.Im just pointing this out and not suggesting anything by it.