Need help with an odd creature I saw in a fresh, cold water lake. A fresh water jelly fish? It was about the size of a quarter, clear, and had 3 or 4 white spots. Instead of the usual "tenticals" trailing behind, it had spikes (hair thin) that stuck out in front of it. Other than that it moved like a jellyfish. Although Im not a big FW diver,I swear that in over 30 years of diving, I never saw one. Help??
Fresh water jellyfish ??
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You weren't having narcosis, i actually saw the same creature in lake Commandant (or Papineau) in Boileau, Qc. That's north of the state of New York. I saw them in august and they stayed near the surface, water temperature over the thermocline being around 72F (while below 20 ft it was around 43F).
I saw some others that had been taken in a lake in Qc, north of Vermont and Maine (lake Mirror or Crystal, I don't remember) so they don't seem that rare although I had never heard of them before this year also.
Some people are trying to identify those up here so I'll update you if they discover anything.
You weren't having narcosis, i actually saw the same creature in lake Commandant (or Papineau) in Boileau, Qc. That's north of the state of New York. I saw them in august and they stayed near the surface, water temperature over the thermocline being around 72F (while below 20 ft it was around 43F).
I saw some others that had been taken in a lake in Qc, north of Vermont and Maine (lake Mirror or Crystal, I don't remember) so they don't seem that rare although I had never heard of them before this year also.
Some people are trying to identify those up here so I'll update you if they discover anything.
Great! and thanks, im sure their not some rare species, I just never saw any before. They were pretty cool, It seemed that when I hit them with the beam on my can light, they would just stop moving. Then when I took it off, they went on their merry way. I would love to know more about them!
Gidds
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Yes there are FW jellies and no you don't encounter them often. Wish I could see one.
Did it look anything like these? http://www.clr.pdx.edu/news/jellyfish.html
olddiver2
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I remember being amazed by them at Lake Tanycomo in Missouri back in the 1970's. It was a chilly October morning, and as we stopped to cast, we saw them "parachuting" up and down in the clear water. I scooped some up to take back home, but in a few hours they were disolved.
That URL is the first information I have ever seen. Thanks for kindling a memory.
That URL is the first information I have ever seen. Thanks for kindling a memory.
NSDiver
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Interesting - I didn't know these things were that uncommon. I see them all the time in the Severn River (empties into the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland). I was thinking about catching one.
ramgib
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There are bunches of them in Bluestone Quarry in Thomasville, NC.
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