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Can anyone ID these eggs?

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I spent about an hour and a half today walking the lakeside and soaking a Senko. I saw these globs of egg in hoping someone could identify. 

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Although they look a bit like salamander egg masses, they aren't. They are Bryozoan colonies -tiny filter feeding animals. Yeah, weird.

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We have them in our lagoons down here. From what I had read about them they are one sign of a healthy ecosystem.

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Have them in some northern lakes I fish here. Never seen one in the rivers though. In all honesty I’ve never caught a decent bass in and around them. Some dinks and runts over the years. 

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12 hours ago, Smells like fish said:

Thank you Paul. Absolutely amazing. 

Lotsa amazing critters out there. I think what's also cool is that it's fisherman that would notice them and think they're cool.

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I thought they were some sort of eggs too , when I first encountered them . I see them on brush and catch lots of bass in that same brush .

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6 minutes ago, scaleface said:

I thought they were some sort of eggs too , when I first encountered them . I see them on brush and catch lots of bass in that same brush .

I thought they were eggs when I first saw them as well. So I took a photo and then did some image researching to find out what they were.

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I’m just waiting for @Catt to come by and share a Cajun recipe for them ?

Maybe just spread on a cracker? Ca c’est bon

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Poached

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2 hours ago, Smells like fish said:

I’m just waiting for @Catt to come by and share a Cajun recipe for them ?

Maybe just spread on a cracker? Ca c’est bon

We used to pull it all apart and throw it at each other as kids. It’s like the consistency of brains or something! Very gross haha 

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2 hours ago, scaleface said:

I thought they were some sort of eggs too , when I first encountered them . I see them on brush and catch lots of bass in that same brush .

That is good to know. Than I’m clearly not fishing hard enough around them. 

i always thought they were eggs too

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We have those in a couple of ponds near me.  I was always kind of afraid to bump a bait into them because I didn't know what they were.

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