A friend just sent this to me any ideas?? Attachment 337946
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A friend just sent this to me any ideas?? Attachment 337946
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My guess is an internal tumor
whatever it is.....get rid of it! I've never been that hungry. :)
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Originally Posted by Crestliner08
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I would like to know too. I found one just like that except it was dark chocolate in color a couple of years ago. (Maybe more mature) It was hard like an acorn.
D-10 on the Arkansas chapter is biologist. You might post there. There is also one on the Missouri chapter.
This is my guess as wellQuote:
Originally Posted by silverside
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I don’t know but batter it up deep fry it, give it a try and let us know how it taste:yikes
I did cook mine. Taste like chicken. It was a mite chewy.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jiggin john
:puke
Maybe it ate an oyster and couldn't digest the pearl.
Hmm m m ? :scratchhead
Might be a one of those body snatcher pods or Alien Egg :dono
DNR research time :cool:
billygee
Pubescent zit.?
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It could be from feed on some of the southern Nuke plant contamination,
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It's a throwaway cyst. You see something like that, throw the fish away.
U musta caught it at Capt'n D's...............
Encysted worm?
You're probably not too far off. A cyst in a fish is a parasitic infection that the fish's body has encapsulated as a defensive mechanism. At least that's the best explanation I can come up with after Googling it.Quote:
Originally Posted by USMA65
Yeah, looks like a cyst from a parasite. Cut it out and enjoy the fillet, they are perfectly safe to eat.
I'm sure that particular fillet has been long since thrown away by now... and I'm sure we all could speculate on exactly what this thing is... but I think we all agree that disposing of any potential food that doesn't quite look right is the best policy. To me it looks very much like a very innocent cyst-like eruption that could have been caused by anything, including being foul hooked sometime in its earlier life. One of the bodies natural defenses is to surround the impurity with a fat-like deposit to isolate it, which later turns to a hard growth much like what you see in the picture.
We all have had splinters or have been pricked or hooked by any number of things where some impurity or other foreign contaminant was pierced or injected into the flesh. In one of my particular experiences: I was horned in the palm of my hand by a catfish when I was about 20 years old which later turned to a hard calloused spot about the size of a field pea that started deep under my skin. Over the years I finally dug at it and cut on it until about the age of 30... when I finally got it all out. Interestingly, at the core of the thing was a seed like thing that I'm guessing was the original contaminant (perhaps catfish venom) that caused the growth.