I've never seen one of these before..

[rvr_lvr]

A friend sent me this. I've never seen a trout or any other fish like this one. Let me know if you have.
[url=http://www.journalstar.com/articles/2005/12/21/top_story/extras/doc43a8a41f9e573446927890.txt:ad71d]http://www.journalstar.com/articles/2005/12/21/top_story/extras/doc43a8a41f9e573446927890.txt[/url:ad71d]

[ohiotuber]

Looks sorta like my wife!
Mike
ps: Excuse me, I've gotta go die now!..or should I say, "She's gonna KILL me now!"

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[Bamboozle]

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[James Smith]

I worked in a fish hatchery after college and it was not uncommon to see lots of different genetic anomolies in the fry. Probably the most common was two headed trout. I tried sorting some of them out to hand raise, but these fish almost never survive more than a couple of days. In fact, I've never seen one that survived.

Jim Smith

[Copper Dropper]

Not to play devil's advocate, but that doesn't look like a second mouth to me. It looks like the fleshy area betwen the lower jaw has been pulled down as is often done when cleaning a trout. That looks like the fish's tongue to me -- like this trout was injured and healed this way.

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[drolfson]

Well, since our hatchery is downstream from the Nuclear power plant here in Nebraska, what do you expect? Oh, that also makes anyone else downstream on the Missouri downstream from it too!

Okay, it was caught here, but the hatchery is not downstream from the power plant. Here is the discussion and reply by the game and parks guys on our local board: [url=http://www.ngpc.state.ne.us/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=2;t=008715:8171a]http://www.ngpc.state.ne.us/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=2;t=008715[/url:8171a]

It still looks really funky though.

Don

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[bwagner]

Hey Copper!! I'm with you on this one, the bottm opening doesn't look like a mouth to me either. I saw this thread early this morningm, but couldn't reply as I was running late for work. It looks to me to be an oddly healed wound of some sort also. Now if the fish has two tongues, and two sets of teeth, well then I stand corrected, but to me it looks like a rip, or tear of some sort. Just my two cents

[Flytyer37]

A slight divergence, if you will. The AP version of this story: [url=http://www.southflorida.com/news/sns-ap-mutated-fish,0,6223682.story?coll=sfe-guide-headlines2:8fe02]http://www.southflorida.com/news/sns-ap-mutated-fish,0,6223682.story?coll=sfe-guide-headlines2[/url:8fe02]

Was written by my eldest daughter, an intern for the AP in Nebraska.
Way Cool
Frank Reid

[Copper Dropper]

The more I look at the picture, the more I am sure this is ridiculous. No way is that a second mouth. That's the fish's tongue. It probably got hooked or someone unhooked it poorly or who knows, but if you look at the true lower jaw, there appears to be no meat between the bones. I mean to say that the "second lower jaw" could be pushed back up. I think this was two guys who don't know what they're talking about. I wonder if the expert out there saw the actual fish for real or is basing his statement on what the angler told him.

Funny though, this is making national news. I even saw it on the elevator news monitor in my office building here on Park Ave. in NYC.

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[drolfson]

Copper;

The lake that was caught out of is a put and take trout fishery in the late fall and winter. None survive the summer, as the water gets too warm. It was planted this fal after being reared in the hatchery. This is the first time it would have been caught. It is just a deformity from either birth or being raised in a pen all its life.

Don