Caught in Pointe Aux Chenes. He had a less striking wound on his side.

Those lesions are scary-looking. I caught an otherwise healthy redfish this weekend with a couple of them, one of which was really nasty. Maybe this is a stupid question, but should we worry about eating fish that have these lesions?

is that cobia in a bass boat????????



them some nasty looking sores

Dude y'all act like we never had fish like that before if the get hit by another fish or a boat rub against something they get like that same as a brush burn on your knee when you fall on the sidewalk if I catch a fish in one of my crab traps their face and tail is like that from rubbing on the trap trying to get out and I also think that they will be more common just after a hurricane

The lesions you see are not normal scraping or wear and tear on these fishes bodies. I caught a lemon fish last time out that had much worse lesions than the one pictured above. The lesion on the one in the picture was external as are the others i've seen. The fish meat is fine, I just cut out the area of the lesion. The lemon fish are thick in South Pelto right now, in 2 hours i saw 8, hooked 4, boated 3.

I have seen fish with lesions all my life from fresh water to salt water. A fish will tear itself to pieces when caught in a net or near some structure.

I am not saying this is not from the BP catastrophe but it is not uncommon to have fish with sores on them. Most people just jump to the conclusion that it is BP's fault. Even on the west end where I live, people are blaming BP for things where there was never a chance of getting any oil or dispersant.



Warren

Cobia in bass boat? Sounds way too familiar haha I've only seen a few fish with these lesions, mostly red fish. Im sure years from now the 'truth' will come out about how bad the oil spill messed everything up.

I haven't seen this type of thing on Cobia before and I've caught lots of Cobia, notice in the picture from my last cobia trip that the one in the middle has severl of these lesions, and in this picture, I'm showing the 'good side', the other side was way worse.