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OK guys what do you see wrt this BG ? Forget the light area where the pectoral fin was -- I caused that.  
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What's wrt again? 
If pigs could fly bacon would be harder to come by and there would be a lot of damaged trees.
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Originally posted by Cecil Baird1: What's wrt again? "With respect to" I believe. If something is supposed to be wrong, the eye doesn't look normal to me.
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WRT his eyes .... I'd say he's on something probably Meth. 
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The fish was found floating -- dead. Thus the eye. In perfect condition. No hook marks, no parasites, no sores or marks ,gills ok , mouth /throat ok, fat , good color , good size , as good of condition as any BG I have seen. What happened ?
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He looks like he saw too much.  Eric, I think the eye looks large for the body size. If you didn't have the ruler there, I'd think it was a smaller, slightly stunted BG. Could be old for his large size, and just have died from old age?
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I assume a natural mort. I don't think it was old as its body condition was more like a 3 yr old BG. I should have kept some scales or extracted the otolith.
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stuff happens. you just found him before the coons.
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Originally posted by ewest: OK guys what do you see wrt this BG ? Forget the light area where the pectoral fin was -- I caused that.
---------------------------------- If I died in the water I probably wouldn't look any better than him, but . . . He looks abnormal to me. Even at that size, he probably would have been one I'd have pulled for dinner. A while back you posted this picture of a fish almost the same length. What a difference. He definitely would have lived to swim another day had I caught him. 
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I think the eye just has some unusual pigment to it and is a dead eye that has whitened up. And the fish seems low in relative weight. Kind of thin as far as cross section.
If pigs could fly bacon would be harder to come by and there would be a lot of damaged trees.
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I think its eyeing his boat!
could be a rouge
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