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Mouth sores on a James River rock bass

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Many of the sick fish exhibited sores around their mouths. While it would seem these could come from infected hooking wounds, we couldn't find hook punctures on the fish with mouth sores. Of course, some had such bad lesions it would have been tough to tell if they'd been recently hooked.

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While growing up in rural Southern Oregon, Mark Taylor developed a passion for the outdoors while he and his younger brother tagged along with their father on fishing, hunting and camping adventures.

Graduating from Northwestern University in 1988, Taylor spent four years as an officer in the U.S. Navy based in Norfolk before moving into journalism.

After five years writing about the military for a Norfolk-based publishing company, he became the outdoors editor at The Roanoke Times in 1998. He lives in Roanoke with his wife and twin daughters.

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