#786028 - 09/15/12 07:31 PM
Re: odd wound in summer steelhead
[Re: eugene1]
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It all boils down to this - I'm right, everyone else is wrong, and anyone who disputes this is clearly a dumbfuck.
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Bullet hole.
Gang-banger steelhead.
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#786085 - 09/16/12 01:08 AM
Re: odd wound in summer steelhead
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Spawner
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Recent graffiti activity and "urban campsites" at the trestle would back your hypothesis up, Dan. However it seems to be sponsored by the Springfield library: Based on the oval nature of the wound, I think Lamprey more. Although I thought they were round mouthed critters, so thanks Slab for visual! Best,
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#786093 - 09/16/12 02:04 AM
Re: odd wound in summer steelhead
[Re: STRIKE ZONE]
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Ornamental Rice Bowl
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Siamese twin.... reabsorbed.
Just ask Twitch.
Got a similar pic of an OR fall chinook w/ the same anomaly.
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#786104 - 09/16/12 09:24 AM
Re: odd wound in summer steelhead
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River Nutrients
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I agree with most - it is an old lamprey scar.
Lampreys feed by attaching themselves to the fish and use those teeth and rasping tongue to open a wound and hold on to the side of the fish so they can feed off the various body fluids. Since it is essentially a surface injury would not expect to see scar tissue very deep into the meat.
The parasitic stage of Pacific and River lamprey is in the salt and they stop feeding once they reach freshwater (returning to spawn). Thus the healed condition of the wound. The oval nature of the scar could be due to growth of the fish after the lamprey was shed or a slight repositioning of the lamprey during its feeding efforts.
Due to a region wide population crash of lampreys such wounds are much rarer than a number of decades ago.
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#786312 - 09/17/12 03:13 PM
Re: odd wound in summer steelhead
[Re: Smalma]
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Definitely NOT a lamprey scar.... those leave a unique impression because of the teeth pattern... looks like a cartoon face of a smiling China-man.
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#786323 - 09/17/12 04:01 PM
Re: odd wound in summer steelhead
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#786335 - 09/17/12 05:05 PM
Re: odd wound in summer steelhead
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The Beav
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Siamese twin.... reabsorbed.
Just ask Twitch.
Got a similar pic of an OR fall chinook w/ the same anomaly. +1 See it quite often. I'll try to hunt up some of my pics.
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#786337 - 09/17/12 05:21 PM
Re: odd wound in summer steelhead
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Alien probe that missed "the spot"
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#786378 - 09/17/12 07:17 PM
Re: odd wound in summer steelhead
[Re: Twitch]
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Spawner
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Siamese twin.... reabsorbed.
Just ask Twitch.
Got a similar pic of an OR fall chinook w/ the same anomaly. +1 See it quite often. I'll try to hunt up some of my pics. Now I'm intrigued! Please put up your pics.
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#786389 - 09/17/12 08:56 PM
Re: odd wound in summer steelhead
[Re: eugene1]
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WINNER
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Well, I did a search for lamprey scars.....found a half dozen or so pictures, but none on our local salmon.....but the scars look very much like your fish. I want to see why Doc thinks it isn't.
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#786406 - 09/17/12 09:36 PM
Re: odd wound in summer steelhead
[Re: eugene1]
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The Beav
Registered: 02/22/09
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Loc: Oregon Central Coast
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Siamese twin.... reabsorbed.
Just ask Twitch.
Got a similar pic of an OR fall chinook w/ the same anomaly. +1 See it quite often. I'll try to hunt up some of my pics. Now I'm intrigued! Please put up your pics. Ok, here is a really easy to see example of an absorbed twin. Sometimes you will only see a slight difference in scales or coloration, this one clearly shows the dorsal patterns and color of the absorbed twin, and also has a couple additional fins (even another adipose). Note the tri-lobe tail, adipose next to the anal fin, and dorsal coloration on the ventral side of the dominate survivor smolt. another
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#786415 - 09/17/12 09:59 PM
Re: odd wound in summer steelhead
[Re: Twitch]
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Me jaw just hit the ground. Never seen anything like that. Very cool and interesting.
So is your opinion that the original posted pic is NOT a lamprey scar?
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#786430 - 09/17/12 11:27 PM
Re: odd wound in summer steelhead
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River Nutrients
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You see all kinds of resborbed twins from two head fish to the sort that twitch post (great photos btw). However keep in mind that Eugene said that the fillet of the fish near the "spot" in question was "normal".
Typically would expect the resborbed twin to more than a skin deep phenomenon.
I like Slab Happy have seen photos completely healed scars (months to years post injury) from lamprey "bites" that look very similar to that photo that started this discussion.
Curt
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#786448 - 09/18/12 12:15 AM
Re: odd wound in summer steelhead
[Re: Smalma]
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River Nutrients
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Teenage girl with braces.
Need I say more?
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#786483 - 09/18/12 01:13 AM
Re: odd wound in summer steelhead
[Re: ParaLeaks]
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Ornamental Rice Bowl
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I want to see why Doc thinks it isn't. Turn your pic upside down and you will see the smiling China-man.... every lamprey leaves the same mark. The original pic shows a macule of spotted dorsal skin located in a field of ventral skin and scales. That was the dead give-away. Even looks like there could be a vestige of adipose fin in that macule. Notice the small thickened tan-brown area.
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#786486 - 09/18/12 01:24 AM
Re: odd wound in summer steelhead
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Smiling China-man....
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#786501 - 09/18/12 02:33 AM
Re: odd wound in summer steelhead
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Fascinating. I was just recently talking about (pondering) why I continue to spend bits and pieces of my limited free time looking at this site and whether it is "worth it" whatever that means. Learning stuff, even if it is weird sh!t like this, is a big part of the draw. Super cool if not a bit creepy. Thanks for sharing guys.
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#786505 - 09/18/12 03:27 AM
Re: odd wound in summer steelhead
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Doc! I see it! No wonder you're the Keen Eye Doc! I believe!
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#786508 - 09/18/12 05:38 AM
Re: odd wound in summer steelhead
[Re: ParaLeaks]
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I abhor the PC descriptor "Asian".
WHY?
Because it's so dam NON-descript. I mean what's the point?
"Asian" technically encompasses the Middle East... That'd be yer Arabs and towel head brown-skinned Asians. Funny we call it the Middle East when it's really SW Asia.
It also includes white folks east of the Ural Range, yer pasty blue eyed Rusky Asians to the north.
Then there's all them southcentral "stani" Asians.... the Afghan's, the Paki's, the Kazak's, Uzbek's, and all the others hardly anyone remembers.
And there's yer Hindu Asians that make up a 1/4 of the world population.
Then there's all the slanty eyed Ornamental Asiansto the southeast.... which is what folks really mean to say when they say "Asian". WTF is wrong with just saying Oriental.... dammit it's what we are. But no, unlike Achewter, we have to dance around it with PC BS. Even Ornamental is considered too broad a label by the folks that actually live there.
I mean there's yer northern yellow white Ornamentals... Mongols, Chinks (Coley didn't like China-man), Japs, and Koreans.
Then there's yer southern brown skinned Ornamentals like me... Viet, Thai,Cambodian, Laotian, Filipino, and to some extent Indonesians.... that look more and more like aboriginal Australians as you move further down the island chain toward the land down under.
How can a label that technically describes such a HUGE diversity of people groups be applied to just a small minority ???
Utterly pointless.
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#786509 - 09/18/12 05:40 AM
Re: odd wound in summer steelhead
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OK sorry for the rant.... back to our regularly scheduled programming.
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#786517 - 09/18/12 09:52 AM
Re: odd wound in summer steelhead
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River Nutrients
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Not to continue to beat a dead horse but the tooth arrangement of each lamprey species is different.
The two species that a local steelhead might encounter are either the Pacific or river lamprey. Neither of which have a tooth arrangement that looks lile the one pictured (sea lamprey??).
Curt
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#786561 - 09/18/12 01:02 PM
Re: odd wound in summer steelhead
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Dick Nipples
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The fact that Doc just responded seriously to a Big Lebowski quote is farking hillarious to me. Fish on... Todd
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#786565 - 09/18/12 01:18 PM
Re: odd wound in summer steelhead
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+1 funny chit
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#821251 - 02/07/13 10:23 PM
Re: odd wound in summer steelhead
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Wonder which one of these conjoined 'hos will win the reabsorption game?
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#821254 - 02/07/13 10:25 PM
Re: odd wound in summer steelhead
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Dick Nipples
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My guess is that neither of them will win, unless you mean "win" by being lunch almost immediately to the first predator that swims by, in which case they'll both win simultaneously!
Fish on...
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#821329 - 02/08/13 12:49 AM
Re: odd wound in summer steelhead
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Doc you better make a mold out of that
Double stacked alevin
Sure to catch fish.
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#821368 - 02/08/13 08:27 AM
Re: odd wound in summer steelhead
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First thread in awhile worth reading thanks. So would that be two punches on my card or do I have to share it with the nets.
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#939697 - 09/24/15 12:45 PM
Re: odd wound in summer steelhead
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Ornamental Rice Bowl
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One more thing Twitch,
Is this twin absorption normal in native steelhead or is it a hatchery phenomenon?
Also, what causes it... two embryos get too close and join up or blastomere identity problems (like human identical twins)? I'm guessing the two fish are identical genetically, but we could do some genotyping to find out if no one has looked before.
Best, I guess we'll find out soon enough....
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#939705 - 09/24/15 04:22 PM
Re: odd wound in summer steelhead
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I guess we'll find out soon enough.... +1
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#939734 - 09/24/15 08:00 PM
Re: odd wound in summer steelhead
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Repeat Spawner
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Really cool thread, and some great twin imagery. Thanks you guys.
I'm with Smalma on this one though. You won't have external evidence of tooth marks on a healed old scar which grew scales over the top of it. The rescaled surface is going to hide your Chinaman. The pattern depicted in the later image is on a smooth non-scaled surface, so it really won't have the same healed appearance. Also absence of deeper abnormality seems to kill the twin theory.
I vote lamprey mark. Either way, cool case.
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#939741 - 09/24/15 09:17 PM
Re: odd wound in summer steelhead
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Welcome to the future of affected Hanford radiation leaching or possibly Fukogima. I would suspect we may see some 100 lbers show up soon in PS?
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#939775 - 09/25/15 11:07 AM
Re: odd wound in summer steelhead
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This is a healed lamprey wound. I've seen hundreds in various states of healing from fresh to completely healed and "re-scaled" or "re-skinned", much like the OP's pic.
No way you can see this upside down (fresh) pattern once the re-scaling has started. Notice that the pic of the pattern is on a scaleless segment of the fish, near the operculum - probably the only reason it remained visible.
Edited by JustBecause (09/25/15 11:10 AM)
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#939776 - 09/25/15 11:13 AM
Re: odd wound in summer steelhead
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#939940 - 09/28/15 09:08 PM
Re: odd wound in summer steelhead
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I don't know what to believe anymore! Most of you guys know what a "selfie" is I guess? Here is a "freshie" we got this weekend. Different river than the steelie and a nook. Note the oval shape.
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#939941 - 09/28/15 09:10 PM
Re: odd wound in summer steelhead
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Hi JustBecause, Can you send me a link to a bunch of pics of these wounds? Be great to have a reference to compare with. Thanks if you can! This is a healed lamprey wound. I've seen hundreds in various states of healing from fresh to completely healed and "re-scaled" or "re-skinned", much like the OP's pic.
No way you can see this upside down (fresh) pattern once the re-scaling has started. Notice that the pic of the pattern is on a scaleless segment of the fish, near the operculum - probably the only reason it remained visible.
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#939942 - 09/28/15 09:15 PM
Re: odd wound in summer steelhead
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River Nutrients
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I don't know what to believe anymore! Most of you guys know what a "selfie" is I guess? Here is a "freshie" we got this weekend. Different river than the steelie and a nook. Note the oval shape. That is obviously a .22 cal wound and the perp was a 49ers fan. Haven't you ever watched CSI?
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#939945 - 09/28/15 11:08 PM
Re: odd wound in summer steelhead
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Ornamental Rice Bowl
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Apparently human conjoined twins are always genetically identical. "In short, conjoined twins occur when a fertilized egg procrastinates a division. If an egg splits in the first twelve days after conception, identical separate twins are created. If it waits until the thirteenth day or later, the embryos do not divide completely. This leaves the twins conjoined. They can be connected by a ligament, as were the original Siamese twins, Change and Eng Bunker, or attached even closer – at the head, chest, rear end, or lower body. It is estimated that only one in 200,000 live births will result in conjoined twins. Approximately seventy percent of conjoined twins are female, though it is not known why. Conjoined twins are always the same sex, never mixed." Can't wait to see the DNA results on CM's king to see how it works in the fish world.
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#939957 - 09/29/15 09:02 AM
Re: odd wound in summer steelhead
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Juvenile at Sea
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Where I worked before, the Bonneville Dam fish trap, I did not take pics of the fish. I wish I would have, because over the years I handled some dandy springers and steelhead - the size you wouldn't think were around much anymore. While we did note all of the different scars and wounds, we did not photo-catalog them. This is the closest thing I could find on the web, in a short time. Pics 9 and 10 in this gallery are interesting. Not a pacific salmon but interesting the same. http://theriverscourse.blogspot.com/2012/03/landlocked-love-for-deep-green-beauty.htmlI should have phrased my post a bit less definitively. This may very well be a remnant, vestigial twin that has been reabsorbed in a location and in a shape that is common to a lamprey scar, but it's "exceedingly unlikely". The spots are interesting but not conclusive, in my mind - skin does all sorts of weird things when it reforms, particularly if the wound is deep, hair where the re wasn't before, etc. I'm sticking with the lamprey scar, you guys can have the "Ripley's" conclusion... :-)
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#973947 - 02/27/17 06:41 PM
Re: odd wound in summer steelhead
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Ornamental Rice Bowl
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I think I may have caught my first ALL WILD version of the "absorbed twin syndrome". Check out this king from last summer... Look carefully at the patch of NON-matching skin behind the collar on the fish's left "shoulder" (I'm referring specifically to the spotting pattern) Now check out the normal vermiculated chinook spotting pattern on the other side....
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#974406 - 03/06/17 08:31 PM
Re: odd wound in summer steelhead
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#974421 - 03/06/17 10:26 PM
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