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| I have only seen these things on Boom and other parts of the Wisconsin River north of Rhinelander. They are usually round, grayish, jelly like organisms that are around weeds. I seldom see these things in open water. If you pull a lure through them it will cover the lure in the endopladmic like goo. What is this stuff? I have seen them range in size from a basketball and much, much, larger. |
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Location: The desert | Bryozoans. |
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| Thanks Pointer. Those are some interesting organisms! Glad they don't bite! Usually find these in fishy areas. |
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| Might be freshwater jellyfish, Craspedacusta sowerbii https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craspedacusta_sowerbii
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| I've got a big glob of it by my dock, about 3' by 4'. Any concern with them, especially contact with skin, or it mutating and dragging me away while I sit on the dock? |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | Fried up, those babies are absolutely awful. |
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Location: oswego, il | Interesting stuff. For a moment there I though the thread was about me, I don'the recall fishing there with my pantsa off though. |
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| Sounds like a bad acid trip. |
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Location: West Central WI | Inspiration for the movie "The Blob". I've seen them and they give me the creeps. |
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| The species I speak of is called "magnificent bryozoans" and they do taste like crap fried but make a nice sushi. |
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| I have seen them before in illinois/Indiana and a DNR biologist told me that they only grow in very healthy balanced ecosystems. Whether he was full of crap and just trying to get me off the phone I don't know lol |
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| For the health of the ecosystem, I'm not sure if that means Todd should continue or stop peeing in the lake when his pants are off. |
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Giant Gray Jelly Balls