double sided flounder

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#1 Post by **gibbo** » Tue Sep 26, 2006 7:40 pm

People:me and a mate

Duration:3hrs

Tide:riseing then going

Weather:nice

Bait:crab rag and mackrel

Rigs:pullys

Results:few flats

Catch and Release:: Yes/Noyes

Report:

me mate got a flat that was the same colour on his belly as his back do any of you know why this happens.heres a picture of it

#2 Post by **stevecrow74** » Tue Sep 26, 2006 7:51 pm

it is an anomaly indeed..

on of those gene things i guess.. a bit like red heads just plain and simply weird

#3 Post by **hairyconger** » Tue Sep 26, 2006 8:02 pm

stevecrow74 wrote:it is an anomaly indeed..

on of those gene things i guess.. a bit like red heads just plain and simply weird

that is weird......

well done anyway, one for the species list

#4 Post by **Drew** » Tue Sep 26, 2006 8:04 pm

Genetic Abnormality?

#5 Post by **stevecrow74** » Tue Sep 26, 2006 8:13 pm

Drew wrote:Genetic Abnormality?

just after reading on a website that i cant find again

that flounder and other species that are coloured on both sides is due to a recessive gene being dominant in the fish which can also cause fish to have 2 sets of eyes (Oneset on each side), and even to the point that the fish isn't flat but round...

#6 Post by **hairyconger** » Tue Sep 26, 2006 8:13 pm

Drew wrote:Genetic Abnormality?

double sided flounder? Men that look like crows? Whatever next?

#7 Post by **rab01** » Tue Sep 26, 2006 9:04 pm

caught a few flounder like that years ago when i used to fish off kinnegar in holywood. definately weird alright!

#8 Post by **hairyconger** » Tue Sep 26, 2006 9:12 pm

rab01 wrote:caught a few flounder like that years ago when i used to fish off kinnegar in holywood. definately weird alright!

i think that was just pollution in the lough that made them look like that

...its supposed to be getting clean again though

#9 Post by **fish4fun** » Tue Sep 26, 2006 9:36 pm

Get quite a few like that here in Ne England. Sometimes the colour on the white side is just blotches. There was a student at Newcastle University a while back who was doing a study and was having the details sent to her. Don't know if she came up with anything else other than the genetic defect.

#10 Post by **fish4fun** » Tue Sep 26, 2006 9:39 pm

Get quite a few like that here in Ne England. Sometimes the colour on the white side is just blotches. There was a student at Newcastle University a while back who was doing a study and was having the details sent to her. Don't know if she came up with anything else other than the genetic defect.

#11 Post by **rab01** » Tue Sep 26, 2006 9:53 pm

thought it was the pollution too hc!

but as u say its getting alot cleaner. i've seen sea trout and salmon actively jumping around this summer, maybe not in big numbers but they were there. i think that says it all to how much cleaner the area is finally getting.

#12 Post by **hairyconger** » Tue Sep 26, 2006 9:55 pm

have my eyes on an area or two for winter fishing

#13 Post by **m.b3** » Tue Sep 26, 2006 10:52 pm

was that kilcoole Gibbo?

#14 Post by **Adam S** » Wed Sep 27, 2006 12:10 am

i would guess that its ectopic overexpression of pigmentation genes due to inheritnace of some rare recessive allele either that or a point or deletion mutation in the genes of the skin cells from some recombination error during the embryonic state or exposure to an external mutagen.

yes thats right i am a geneticist har har.

#15 Post by **cortaz** » Wed Sep 27, 2006 12:30 am

f...sake adam, what u on about?????????
think of the rest of us

i shoud have gon to skool

#16 Post by **stevecrow74** » Wed Sep 27, 2006 3:25 am

Adam S wrote:i would guess that its ectopic overexpression of pigmentation genes due to inheritnace of some rare recessive allele either that or a point or deletion mutation in the genes of the skin cells from some recombination error during the embryonic state or exposure to an external mutagen.

yes thats right i am a geneticist har har.

rephrased so the rest of us can understand:

i wudd guess dat its eckopic obehexpresshun of pigminashun genes due t' inhehitnace of some rare recessibe allele eideh dat or a poit or deleshun mutashun in de genes of the, ERRRR, skin cells from some recombinashun ehror durigg the, uh, embryonic state or exposure t' an extehnal mutagen.

#17 Post by **Eoghan** » Wed Sep 27, 2006 10:40 am

Clearly a female flounder.....cant decide what to wear...........!

Did it's bum look big in it..??

#18 Post by **corbyeire** » Wed Sep 27, 2006 10:47 am

its already had a bit of surgery on its tail!

#19 Post by **Eoghan** » Wed Sep 27, 2006 11:07 am

corbyeire wrote: its already had a bit of surgery on its tail!

The flounder version of a nose job, or maybe a boob reduction...!!!

teacher · #20 Post by **teacher** » Wed Sep 27, 2006 11:20 am

i would guess that its ectopic overexpression of pigmentation genes due to inheritnace of some rare recessive allele either that or a point or deletion mutation in the genes of the skin cells from some recombination error during the embryonic state or exposure to an external mutagen.

cortaz wrote:f...sake adam, what u on about?????????
think of the rest of us
i shoud have gon to skool

Looks like gibberish to me too ...

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