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A couple fish I recently caught on our small lake coughed up a big glob of clear stuff that had the consistency of jello. Anyone know what that might be?
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A bryozoan, maybe? Maybe some fish eat those things.
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Thanks. Haven't seen any in the lake lately, but we have had them. Maybe the fish ate them all. Why? Very unusual for them to eat them huh?
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I would not think a bass would eat a bryozoan, but who knows?
Could it maybe have been some partially digested fish?
Excerpt from Robert Crais' "The Monkey's Raincoat:"
"She took another microscopic bite of her sandwich, then pushed it away. Maybe she absorbed nutrients from her surroundings."
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I suppose it's possible that the bass, while thrashing about with it's mouth wide open, just bulldozed some of it up during the fight.
Fish on!, Noel  
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Great idea. They were caught close to each other and thus may have been close to the same glob under water.
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Was the pond/lake ever treated with a sealant like Soilfloc for a leak? I always wondered if fish would eat the unbound particulate. Just a guess...
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No, never was. but thanks for the thought.
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