fresh water drum (sheephead) with nasty bunch on it.

[fishy1]

[fishy1]

i caught this tonight and it had a nasty bunch on the side of his head. it was very hard and dark colored. going to turn it in to the dec in ny tommorrow if i can. he certainly was healthy enough to battle me for 10 minutes and burning my drag. anyone else ever seen this on drums?

[Bearcat]

Yikes! Looks like it migrated over from that nuke plant near Oswego.

[riddlervt]

Looks like it grew a foot since I seen it last....Haha

I caught a walleye last year with a similar looking growth. I threw it back.
Ridds

[Hairbone]

Champlain Caviar

Put that fish out of its misery!

[Captain Paul]

Sheephead have them quite often

[Registered Kayak]

if only there was a puking face for this! that's pretty gnarly looking!

[fishy1]

i landed over 200 sheephead in august and september only one other had a growth on it. a small sheephead with a small growth 2 inches from the tail. my biggest sheephead was 15 lbs . caught lots of ten pounders was targeting a 20 lber but no luck.

[Gecha (Gerry)]

over 200 sheephead in august and september only one other had a growth on it. a small sheephead with a small growth 2 inches from the tail. my biggest sheephead was 15 lbs . caught lots of ten pounders was targeting a 20 lber but no luck.

That's a nasty looking puck on that fish.
WOW, you caught a bunch of them this summer.

I caught my first and only one last week. It was 29" but I didn't have a scale. They are very strong fish, and don't want to leave bottom. I caught it in 70 fow while walleye gigging.

[fishy1]

gerry :
they are very strong fish and dont easily give up. thats interesting you caught that down 70 feet. i targeted them hopeing to land a 20 lber but never did.
i fished in 12 foot of water where they were feeding on zebra mussels and crayfish. i used crawlers and dragged bottom and fished the same location out of my boat for all of those sheephead except 8. the 15 lber was caught off a pier. there are boats out in the channel that jig for them and sheephead fishing seems to be increasing on this end of the lake. your fish at 29 inches depending on girth was at least 8lbs plus. i love those eyes. yum yum.

[Lavman]

Go pro for a fish? LOL!