Pretty common in stocked fish of any species to have that. Bumping into tanks and what not through the rearing process

This is interesting! Good to know! Learned something new today!

I’ve seen photos of natural born pike and muskies that had this same pug nose, so I think it could also be a mutation as suggested. The hatchery effect is probably more common in the salmonids that are raised in concrete raceways, which the muskies don’t use at Wolf Lake.

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