Wierd Meat

[gundy89]

I was cleaning a 19in eye this weekend and the flesh between the backbone and dorsal looked dead. There were a couple quarter sized pockets that were off-color and I could peal it away. Anybody else seen this or know what it was? The fish was plump and looked healthy. I ate it anyway and haven't died yet.

[Ole1855]

gundy,
What lake did you catch that Eye in? I remember some talk on the Leech Lake forum last winter about a similar thing they were finding in perch.

Ole

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[gundy89]

Ole,
It was Mary up by Alexandria. I haven't seen it before. It kinda looked like dead flesh.

[2dalake]

You should report that to the DNR. It sounds like the same parasite we found in some perch on Leech and it has spread to other lakes. There was some real good info on it posted here on FM over the winter. Darned if I can find it now.

As I recall they were worried that it might jump species to walleyes but up until now it had only been found in perch.

[2dalake]

Found it.

http://fishingminnesota.com/ubb/Forum30/HTML/004500.html

Good info in here, along with a link to the DNR's HSOforum on the parasite. It's called heterosporis.

I actually foung three threads on this subject, one on the Leech Lake page and two more on the Ice Fishing page.

[gundy89]

That was what it looked like. The fish I had wasn't as bad as the picture though. Kinda scary. I will have to contact the DNR. Does anyone know what the email address is?

[2dalake]

Here's the email link to the DNR on their HSOforum.

http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/contact/index.html

If they have any more info on this and what's being done please post for the rest of us?

[gundy89]

2dalake
Thanks, I emailed them this morning. I will let you know what they have to say.

[EBass]

Great, Eboli for fish

[gundy89]

Got an email back from them. They said based on what I described, it was not the Heterosporis. He said there were multiple things it could be and without looking at it, he couldn't be sure.

[2dalake]

Hm, sure sounded like it. Suppose he didn't want to start a panic?

[gundy89]

It even looked like it from the pictures, I suppose he didn't want to say anything until he was sure. I am going to keep my eye open for more. I really hope it wasn't though.

[2dalake]

So will I. Like I said earlier, we're right downstream from Mary.

[FishFreak757]

I have also seen something kinda like that on bass. We were in carls lake and say this bass swumming about a foot below surface and his left eye was gone and he was all black. I dont no if thats what u are talking about but it was sure scarey looking and a guy later told us he saw a sunny like that.

Happy fishing

[2dalake]

That doesn't sound like the same thing. With this stuff you can't tell it's there until you fillet them.