Man, have I got a water turkey story to share...and pictures to prove it if I can ever figure out the mystery of posting pictures.

Theo, the water turkey signature is similar, but is always just behind the fishes head after the gills running vertically much like you picture. Nasty cuts and ends up killing most of the fish eventually.

I found the ultimate water turkey rookery in Mexico. Let me just say that anyone that thinks water turkeys are/were endangered, needs to see this place. I'll post my story and pictures later. It was unbeliveable to go fly fishing for Tarpon and end up being asaulted by thousands of water turkeys...but the fishing was terrific anyhow.