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My buddy caught this weird walleye on Nippising last Tuesday Jan 6th.
He entered a contest and won $100 gift cert. with Can. Tire.
He sent the pic to the ministry and they said it was a fake pic. Its not fake, he caught it.
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My buddy caught this weird walleye on Nippising last Tuesday Jan 6th.
He entered a contest and won $100 gift cert. with Can. Tire.
He sent the pic to the ministry and they said it was a fake pic. Its not fake, he caught it.
looks like a bad growth or a mutation of some sort or just some computer editing. I am curious, did he eat it?
Looks like a taxidermied bastardization to me. I call BS.
Looks like a walleye/Gobie cross lol. Prob just mutation or got its face bit off when it was smaller. I have see bass like this as well.
A person that frequents another website told me they are calling it a fake picture. The person in the picture is my daughters boyfriend and best bud of my son. He told me he caught it and if he's BS'ing me then I'd be awfull pissed off.
They were close to their limit and really didn't want to eat it (for obvious reasons), so it went back down the hole.
That's not a walleye it's the elusive Derp Fish.
Only Marge Simpson would know how to cook that freak of nature:silly:...........................Daniel
Wasn't the 3 eyed fish caught there last year... is there a power-plant up there I'm not aware of?
One of the Manitou islands (Newman Island) was mined for several different minerals during the 40's and 50's. One of those minerals was uranium.Quote:
Originally Posted by Romulus86
Take a close look, doesn't look like a fish that just came out of the water, no slime, no water dripping off of it..........
I'd eat that in a heartbeat. Far less worrysome than a hot dog or slice of mock chicken.
i call BS too
If I caught something like that I would have taken more pictures from different angles, a video and then sent it to the MNR for DNA testing...
Your daughters boyfriend eh? I was someones daughters boyfriend once, or maybe twice (lost count?) and if they believed me... well???Quote:
Originally Posted by Roper
The fins on it are all extended and too perfect. Not typical of a fish that just came out of the water...IMHO.
was thinking the same thing, something doesen't seem right with his hands espically the one holding the head. Maybe its just me.Quote:
Originally Posted by BIG MAC
Why is it always the ones that "go back down the hole" with no physical proof other than a photochopped picture that show up. Some people.Quote:
Originally Posted by Roper
As far as the dry hands go, he may have had gloves on. I don't know. The fins being extended is normal reaction for a fish being caught. Seen it a hundered times.
Have not talked to him for a few days as he is in the Magnetawan area with his buds. Taking pictures from different angles etc.? He's not a scientist conducting an experiment. He caught a wierd fish and took a picture of it - then back down the whole. Simple as that.
Nowadays you can't believe anything posted on the internet. Graphics programs can create anything. I'm one of the biggest sceptics myself. But that also puts in question real pictures that are called fake.
Pretty sure it was and it was in the paper too... I was thinking the same. What's leaking into that lake...Quote:
Originally Posted by Romulus86
If it was a stuffed fish , he wouldn't be able to stick his finger behind the gill , would he? ( I have never tried to do that on a mount , but I would assume it would be rigid )Quote:
Originally Posted by Hunter John
gees what some fish will do to stay in the slot lol
When I was a kid I went fishing in BC with my Uncle Gib. He was a great angler and a crafty guy. Loaded a 14ft aluminum onto his Jeep when he was 70 using this metal contraption and a winch. As a kid I was impressed. We ended up catching some salmon but one day Gib was stumped. We caught this narly looking fish up river and couldn't ID it. We brought it home and froze it. We took a picture and sent it to the BC mnr. Eventually the dept of fisheries took the then frozen fish. I remember it was the coolest thing about a year later getting a letter from them explaining that they ID the fish and that it was not know to frequent into the river and was a unique catch. My mom has that letter somewhere. Don't remember what it was but getting that letter from the biologist and Uncle Gib helped increase my passion for angling today.
I digress and reminisced a bit there. If I caught that fish I would do the same thing. Freeze it and find out what it is or what caused it. Seems like killing something for nothing but what if it was an invasive species like Asian carp (in this case clearly not).
Winner right here.Quote:
Originally Posted by finsfurfeathers
I think your boyfriends bud is busting your chops. I would be pissing on him next time I seen him too.
Nope not true. A little trick I used to do when I was guiding and wanted to make a clients fish a little more "photogenic" was to tickle it's belly. The fish will flare right up. Sounds absolutely ridiculous but it works.Quote:
Originally Posted by impact
Here's another interesting walleye that had it's belly tickled...
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k1..._6804548_n.jpg
Doesn't take a genius to see this pic is photo-shopped!!Just look at difference in scales on head,plus size of fingers in proportion to rest of arms!!Give me a Break!!
Here is one I caught this past spring in the Detroit River......
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Your hands are too dry and where is the fish slime....I'm calling this one. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by x_xeon_x
I have caught blue coloured walleye in Erie before. They are not all that rare. As far as the OP fish, I don't doubt it's authenticity a bit. I've seen some pretty wierd fish !!!!! I've seen Erie perch with a snub face like that.
Well there you go..... You can actually teach an old dog new tricks.......lolQuote:
Originally Posted by x_xeon_x
I'm not convinced. When you hold a fish out towards the camera the picture always inflates the size of your hands/fingers, especially with a wide-angle lense like your typical phone camera. Often that's the dead givaway that the fish isn't as big as your immediate reaction is to think. Here, look at me shamelessly trying to make a little smallie look like a wall-hanger:Quote:
Originally Posted by DJG
http://i1026.photobucket.com/albums/...9D6F745E56.jpg
Here it's easier to tell it's just this effect in play because you can see my arms all the way from shoulder to wrist, but if you were to just compare the size of my hands/fingers to my upper arms, there's at least as much inflation as in Roper's pic.
And I don't buy that it's a mount. I don't know too much about taxidermy but I don't think walleye skin is elastic enough to make that eye bulge out of a normal fish. It also looks like he's holding back the anal fin with his index finger which I don't think you could do on a mount. And look at the shine on the skin, especially below the rear dorsal fin... I suppose a mount could have that but it's not typical.
And though I've never heard of belly tickling before, I do find dorsal fins tend to fan out when a fish is being held out of water, it's after they're killed that the fins usually fold in flat.
Of course any type of photo edit is possible but I'm tempted to believe this is real.
Looks real to me. Ugly though! It doesn't look like it was big enough to keep anyways. Don't they have to be over 18" on Nipissing?
Hey guys i saw this on reddit the other day here is another picture he posted.
http://i.imgur.com/Sl1Ap9b.jpg
Well Ill be damned. that pic looks legit.
I would agree.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hunter John
That's probably the worst hydrodynamic fish ever.
A goby trapped in a walleye body
If it was shopped the plaid would be distorted if anything. Why would an edit to the top of the head affect the hand under it? Unless you are an amateur you would only modify the fish and leave the rest as is. I work with photoshop regularly at work and I can do some tricky things but this picture is legit. I think the second pic should confirm that he wasn't lying.Quote:
Originally Posted by DJG
Looks like he ran into a wall at full speed!
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Originally Posted by phoenix
Cleft pallet?
lol if i was gonna photoshop a fish, i wouldve made it 30 lbs, not a flat nose...
bin some weird fish come out of nip, as some one esle mentioned, the 3 eyed fish a couple years ago... about 7 or 8 years ago, a co worker caught a 13 lb walleye, that only measured 20 inches, had the biggest gut you could imagine, i wouldnt have believed it myself had i not seen it...
Send that second pic to the mnr and see what they say. I caught a whitefish at promised land camp about 15 years ago. It had a tumour on its head that weighed around a pound. It was close to a 30" fish. My wife got scared and kicked it back into the hole before I could take a pic. Wierd fish everywhere. I'd say both pics are real. If either fish were kept the mnr would probably fine the person who caught them anyways for not being in the keeper slot.
Slot or not, personally I would like to have seen that fish taken out of the ecosystem ... if it is a genetic mutation, I would like to see that mutation stopped right there and not let this thing breed, could lead to a new and ugly sub-species.
A good friend of mine caught a large chinook that had two mouths ... one functional and a smaller one below that was non-functional ... he had it mounted and still has the mount at home ... mutation can do some things that you would not expect, and some mutations should be removed from the populations. If this fish was not in the slot, I do not expect the MNR would have been too upset about removing it for genetic research.
Wow...I wonder how crow tastes this time of year??
He sent the picture to the MNR and they said it was fake.
Maybe they're trying to wash their hands of something hahaQuote:
Originally Posted by Roper
Not afraid to admit I MAY be wrong! Second pic looks legitimate.
This walleye was caught by one of my guests,it was not photoshopped or altered as some claim.It does look odd,but I see a few odd looking fish each and every year.We did have a Salmon caught here about 20 years ago in the winter and I wouldn't of believed it if I hadn't seen it.Quote:
Originally Posted by DJG
Nice walleye! I guess he forgot to tickle the belly for the picture....lol
http://www.oodmag.com/fishing/ice-fi...ay-january-31/
http://www.oodmag.com/wp-content/upl...ye-620x338.jpg
got me on this one. I couldn't believe it.
No stop the cyber bullying and name calling of this poor fish. Probably lives a life of seclusion and even bait fish make fun of him.
Weird Looking fish, I kinda hope i catch one this weekend on Nip!
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Originally Posted by impact
Make sure to try it! The best spot is near the pelvic fins.
looks like he ran in to a net
don't you guys remember ,last year a three eyed fish was caught in callander bay aswell, try googling three eye louie, might still be in forums here from last year, probably from the breeding
maybe they are evolving... more slender design to prevent their gills from getting caught lolQuote:
Originally Posted by rackman
https://www.vice.com/en_ca/read/this...at-lakes-basin
http://northernontario.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=283295
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Originally Posted by dropshot1