Another possibility is an angler came and caught these bullheads and tried to toss them onto shore just to kill them. It happens, unfortunately, everywhere. I'd ask your mother to see if other people frequent the pond and fish there. Yeah...edit...the reason being because the first one shows red ...

Thanks for the Reply. I live in TX, but my mother lives in Maryland. Yes, she does have fishing birds that frequent the pond, and that was our first thought, but the sores didn't look specifically like they were "inflicted." they were close enough to the water's edge we had thought it possible they ...

So my mom has a man made 1 acre pond on her property ( http://easternshoreparadise.com/ ). It is stocked with Bass and Catfish. She recently found 2 large catfish on the shore though. One was barely alive (she moved him back into shallow water but he didn't try to swim off) and the other had already ...