It was a large mouth bass just under 14 inches.  I have never seen this before and few old timer fisherman I know, has never seen it.   It was all over the inners and they are hard to the touch.  Caught in shallow water in the south atchafalaya bassin.  

Welcome to the forum!  And I have no idea what that is, but I don't like it. 

Gross AF/ Can't unsee.

What is it? I don't know. What does it looks like? A tongue with severely inflamed taste buds

Forgot to put this was the fishes liver.  

Hard to the touch, maybe cancer? I don't know what it is, but I do know that I would not be eating that fish.

I would show this to your local fish commission/DNR. 

Yeah, I don't want to deal with that while fishing!

It's pretty gross af and i feel sorry for the poor fish.

 

If you caught it to eat, I sure hope you didn't eat. Cancer is also my first guess from a non expert or those are some serious abcesses. 

The liver, you say? What do you expect? He's been drinking his whole life. 

A bass? I have no idea. Welcome to the forums, by the way.

10 hours ago, fishballer06 said:

I would show this to your local fish commission/DNR. 

This.

2 hours ago, the reel ess said:

The liver, you say? What do you expect? He's been drinking his whole life. 

He better not have been caught in Indiana, cause it's literally illegal to get a bass drunk here

Welcome aboard!

 

Def show to the fish and game authorities.

Welcome to BR site.

Looks like fish fatty liver dease (FLD).

Tom

That is nasty. At first i was assuming it was the yellow parasitic worms, but then I saw it and almost puked.

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Cirrhosis. As you can see from my catch. Alcoholism runs rampant in the underwater community.

 

Don't eat that bass. When we clean rabbits we always check the liver for white spots. If they have them it usually means parasites and the meat gets tossed. No way I'd risk trichinosis over a little bass.

Where the heck you catch that????   

6 hours ago, WRB said:

Welcome to BR site.

Looks like fish fatty liver dease (FLD).

Tom

Thanks tom.  That is a big bass.   Maybe one day I will catch one that big.  

 

I sent pics pics to the dept of wildlife.   If they answer I will post it.   If they show up here in haz mat suits.  It may be awhile before I post.