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Thread: Pugnose Bass ???

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    Took this from another site.Was just curious if anyone has ever seen or caught one of these before?
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    There have been pics of other fish with that deformity here before although I have never seen one myself. Very strange.
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    It's from the eggs being zapped by the crap we put into our rivers where the eggs start to form. Read Striper Wars by Dick Russell, it's frightening.

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    Jim Winn, NJ's RFA Rep. caught a pugnosed striper. There's a picture of it in one of the RFA magazines. Sorry, don't know which issue.
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    I GOT ONE 4YRS. AGO ON THE SOUTH END OF BRIG,. IN THE ERALY SPRING.
    IT SMEEMED HEALTHY AND WAS 25 IN. AT THAT TIME

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