So I caught a Flathead on a Jig today and was going to take it home and eat it until I saw it was covered in Parasites! What are these? I've never seen them before.

Stuff like that keep me from swimmin in lakes.. under the skin.. ewwwwww

Idk... But I would pour gas on those fillets and good riddance ! Maybe someone knows, no matter what it is... Gross!

Yea, I have bleach circulating in my live well now!

Baby leeches maybe? Nasty whatever it is. Edit:Probably not leeches I guess if it was internal too. Heebeegeebees

Hors d'oeuvres

Just an organism. Lives on all sorts of animals. Doesn't live off them, but lives on them. 

 

Won't hurt your fish at all. 

I don't understand

They look like a small Horseshoe crab and can be free swimmers. After I drained the livewells I saw a couple still alive and swimming around!!! I added more bleach to the 2 cups of water that doesn't drain out of the livewells and sprayed Raid on the inside walls!

I dint know what they are but if it wasn't in my boat I'd kill them with fire!

You better rinse the hell out of the livewells before you use them again. Run your recirc pumps as well

I don't know what they are but they're making me itch. lol

Classic case of the crabs. 

Don't Rightly Know ~

 

Could be either Alien Hatchlings or the Spawn of The Kraken . . .

 

A-Jay

These are the folks you need to ask.

http://kdwpt.state.ks.us/KDWPT-Info/Contact-us

Those are proteins.

So after I took this pic I laid the fish down on the bow of the boat to take the hook out and then continued to fish on the slimy spot the rest of the day barefoot!

These are the folks you need to ask.

http://kdwpt.state.ks.us/KDWPT-Info/Contact-us

I sent them the videos, thanks for the link.

Its harmless, you are way over reacting.... 

No dude you ain't over reacting, they are evil doers and must be destroyed!!!

Its harmless, you are way over reacting....

I'm sure your right but I've never seen anything like them. It also doesn't help someone a few miles away just died from a Brain Eating Ameba (true story)

Most big saltwater fish have sea lice on them, this fish obviously doesn't have sea lice but they look very similar. I have eaten many big stripers that had sea lice on them the size of small shrimp, and I'm still here! If you ever have eaten wild caught salmon, those fish probably had sea lice on them. I only get freaked out when the parasites are inside the meat, but we keep an amberjack every now and then when we are at the beach to eat fresh (they are horrible after they are frozen) and many of them have "worms" in the meat. We just cut out the chunks of meat with the worms in them and again, I have never gotten sick from it, and have eaten plenty of it.

Its harmless, you are way over reacting.... 

Yeah, I've never seen anything like them either and I fish the same lake a lot. Like he said though, with what happened recently to a little girl that lived 30 minutes from this lake, most folks are a little concerned about what's in the water.

http://kdvr.com/2014/07/11/9-year-old-girl-dies-from-brain-eating-amoeba-after-swimming-in-lake/

Wow blue basser that's crazy man.

I believe those are fish lice.  Ive caught stripers at Wilson that had those things on them.