Edward Grant of Middletown, New Jersey, caught this fish Sunday in Raritan Bay. It’s a fluke, in more ways than one. It appears that something, possibly a bluefish or shark, had taken a bite out of the fish. The fluke's massive injury was completely healed.
"We were very shocked," Grant said, adding, "We used a few other words, too."
Grant tossed the 18.5 inch fluke back into the bay, deciding it had been through enough already and deserved to live.
"I felt bad for it," he said.
Would you call the fish lucky for both surviving such a bite and also being tossed back by a fisherman? Or would you call him unlucky for being bitten and then being hooked? -via Arbroath
(Image credit: Edward Grant)
Smells fishy to me. Any flatfish biologists out there in Neatoramaland?
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I caught a Starry Flounder with the same type of bite that had totally healed. All of their organs are placed pretty close to the head, so this can be survivable.
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Forget lucky or unlucky, clearly that's a fish with a destiny.
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It had no cooking value : the shark ate the best part :)
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