FURUNCULOSIS again in our trout!!

[Dave B.]

Originally Posted by iceehot6766

Went fishing today and caught a bunch...One in particular looked like either an animal had it's way or IDK, anyone wanna give it a guess, some kinda creases on the side by the gills and back from there.........Is this furunculosis?.....I didn't keep any fish(and prob won't until the spring if any), but the fish was healthy and swam off no problem....ended up w/ 7 total....water was chocolate mile and flowing heavy which made it tough....

Definitely looks like predator scars, seen that many times. Images of infected fish can be seen here... http://www.njfishandwildlife.com/pdf...esentation.pdf About halfway down you'll see the fish. These are browns from Pequest that broke with the initial infection.