Gill Lice

[afterschools]

Was one of two boats crazy enough to fish in the pouring rain today between Bronte and Credit. Best day of the year for sure, got into a number of fish. The first one was a real nice steelhead but even after 30min of trying to revive it it was still belly up. I noticed its gills were a mess with some kind of parasite that looked most closely like "Gill Lice" when searching on Google. Anyone else ever seen this? (The image is from Google and is similar to the gills of the fish today.) The fish had its left pectoral fin snipped so I'm assuming that means it was stocked...