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early aug while laker fishing ,,, several lake trout were caught that appeared to have harpoon wounds about the same size, shape of a loon bill . the fish seemed very healthy and did fight well on lead core, showing no ill effects.
we caught and released ( fishing barbless) approx 30 trout . 2 fish had the wounds as mention above.
as we reeled the trout in slowly , the fish were blowing bubbles and spitting out first year perch that they were feeding on.
i guess the lakers got in the way of the loons that were also feeding on first year perch,
has any one else notice these marks on lakers before ??
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swedish pimple wrote:
appeared to have harpoon wounds about the same size, shape of a loon bill
Were they circular or elongated? my thoughts, especially with lakers, would be lamprey?
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i believe that there are no lamprey in Algonquin,, just the great lakes,,
these marks were not round or circular,, kinda diamond/oval shaped like the bill of a loon,,
side note,, early this year i was catching lakers that had no marking on them at all, these fish were all slate grey colour , orange flesh and the one kept tasted great,,
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