Question

[ac holmes]

I caught a LL today, about 3 or 4#s that had a lot of little red pimple/blisters all over. Never saw anything like that before. Should have got a picture but put that guy back in the water quick. Anybody seen that before?

[ERABBIT]

VHS ?

http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/fish_diseases/vhs.html

[ac holmes]

That's it ERabbit. The good news is that I have caught 20+ fish lately and that was the only one infected.

[Mower]

To protect our fisheries let's follow there suggestion and get the specimen to D E C for investigation.

[Lil Jake]

Good call John, we should keep this towards the top and get the word out. I haven't seen any fish with those "markings" but most of the time it's out of the net and back in as quick as possible. I'll be taking the time to look them over from now on. Thanks for the link Ed. Mark

[ac holmes]

The VHS symptoms were highly visible on the LL. I saw the red on the fish before I netted it and thought the fish was bleeding. The fish I caught was not listless and very lively, as those LLs usually are, but the LL was pretty much covered with the red blisters.