Can anyone tell me what this is? I found it when i was fishing in a freshwater lake in Georgia. Click to view attachment

I've no clue what it is. It has a spine though, so, it's probably rotted, and that's why you can't clearly tell what it is.

A dinosaur bone?

It look's like some type of fish that has been dead for a long time, you can see the spine and what look's like a head maybe, But i have no idea what it use to be, where did you get the picture from.....

I took it when i was fishing on a lake in Georgia. There was another one that was just a blob nothing else, i cut through it and it was just like jello. It was the weirdst thing id ever seen.

Yes that is very weird.....I'm sure someone may have a idea of what it is.......

Eeeeew. It's gross whatever it is.

Could it be the decomposing remains of a large fish, was that an eye near the bottom of the pic? I've heard of freshwater jellyfish in Georgia, but nothing anywhere near that size?

The two facts I know:
It has a backbone, or possibly a stick in it.
It has long since rotted.

Actually, I saw something rathar simillar to that once on an island. Except it was clear and in a roughly square slab. It was about 3-4 inches thick.

I see some mucus looking stuff, what looks like it used to be a fin, and a backbone. It looks like you caught a really rotten fish of some sort. What did it smell like?

It almost looks like a really large rotting catfish or even an impossibly enormous bullhead. But there are a few things about it that wouldn't make sense if it were a giant rotting catfish. It is slightly transparent and the thing that resembles a spine is intact. If it were a rotting fish, wouldn't it still have ribs with an intact spine? It resembles frog goo, but it's way too big and gnarly to be that.

Man, ewwww,

What's it hanging from? You're not holding it. it's not casting a shadow either that I can see (but admittedly I'm not good at judging that kind of thing).

Looks like a huge rotted bull or cat fish to me too.

Where any more pictures taken? Possibly from different angles and such for a better view?

Most definitely is a no taker on "Fear Factor".

Yeah whats holding it up? I also dont see a shadow.

Looks like oddly shapen, algae encrusted glass fishing net floats.

Could it be a rotten horseshoe crab?

Sorry to say this but looks like its done in photoshop!!!
Firstly your "thing" has no shadow like the rest of the piccie!!! Or am I mistaken???
Is it on the sand or is someone or something holding it up????
Surely with your find you mustve taken more piccies????
Post more so we can see and be sure tis not done with a grafix program.

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It's Eeewius Grossius alright. Isn't it's shadow cast in the very corner of the image, obscured partly by whatever else is casting a larger shadow from behind it? It looks a bit too good to be a photoshop. Hey Paskod, were you fishing or dredging?

I'm thinking two turtles that died fighting over a crabstick, but that's just stupid.

My first thought was that it was a turtle. Shell, spine, head... but if it was a turtle, then that would be one huge head. I'm not too sure what it is...

Looks like a "little" catfish carcass to me.

I agree with OMG. If you look at the "spine" in the bottom lump, it doesn't look connected to the other internal stuff. There aren't any bones connecting to the spine. What was the "spine" like? Did you think it was bone?

I can tell you that it wasnt done in photoshop, and my frined was holding it up and took the pic. here is another one, I only took two because at the momement i was fishing and really didnt think anything of it. the reason it isnt casting a shadow is because of the angle the pic was taken and the angle the sun was at durring that time. the thing holding the two blobs together is a sitck and that what were where holding it up by. it didnt smell like anything rotting.

I'm gonna go with the 'very rotted, very dead fish' theory. Whatever it is, it's not going to win any beauty contests.

Looks like two things that have grown on a bit of discarded rope.

Now the only thing is, is that it looks slightly different and smaller in the second picture. Which makes it slightly harder to tell what it is. First off, now you can see more of the 'bone' sticking out of the top, where it would be held, and the blobs attached looks smaller. So, now I'm not so sure of what it might, or could very well be.

Hey paskod, I just dropped by to see if anyone knew what it was yet......"'mental note...I need to show this thread to xsas's".....

WOW....he clearly stated that there wasn't any bone or spine or anything. He's wondering what the "blobs" are. He stated that there is a stick running through them, in order to hole them up. Looking at the larger one, the outer edges make whatever it is that we're looking at, look as though they were in some sort of mold or form.

Possibly some sort of slime mould that you've stabbed through with a stick. What looks like a pipe of some sort in the first picture is leading me to think that that might be a drainage or sewage pipe. Any small leaks would mean that the nutrients escaping would be pretty much all you can eat for a number of microbes, not least the little critters that make up slime moulds. The things look like they're taken really close to the camera and so probably aren't that big. Either that or mucous or other substance used in clusters of amphibian eggs.

That's what I was thinking, well, not the floats, but certainly algae related gunk of some kind. Since we now know that that's a stick, and not a spine, and there was no rotting smell.

Two huge colonies of Phylactolaemata/freshwater bryozoans.

Have no idea of what species though. Maybe Pectinatella magnifica?

I have a guess now that I know that's a stick running through both blobs.

Frogs and some fish I guess (and I'm just guessing, I'm no animal expert) lay eggs in a jelly-like sack and attach them to solid things like sticks and leaves. Could it be that these are spent egg sacks from some reptile or fish?

Looks like another globster to me. Did u get a DNA sample?

I know that people like to call things like that "globsters'',but,in my opinion,its some decayed fish.

IMO it is frog or fish eggs. I live in the Southeast region and I've seen this before. Here is a picture with an example, much smaller, of what frog eggs look like.

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Also you can tell it's pretty close to the camera, so it's not as huge as some of you are making it out to be.

Kind of like the pictures of the soldiers holding the 2 Camel Spiders in Iraq that make them look like the size of a freakin cat...

I can say with some degree of certainty that it's the remains of about a 50-60 lb. Flathead Catfish. That's pretty big. We used to live by the lake where the world record at the time was caught. It was a little over 100 lbs. at that time. I have no idea how big they run in Georgia. Somethings ate the middle of it and the spine is holding the head and a big piece of the back together.

Almost definately. Also known as "moss animals." Giant colonies that attach themselves to objects in the water.







Clever one, that Dan'O.

Could still be some rotting remains, but it looks to me like it is two Bryozoan colonies.

it's definitely not rotting fish. The angle of which the picture was taken makes the object look MUCH bigger. I was going to say amphibian eggs, but the bryozoans that were proposed by Dan'O is a much better explanation.

I would also guess it's egg. Few years back I was on the beach not far from my town and on the sand, washed ashore are thousands of those...the local fishermen said that they're sharks' eggshells, mostly referred as "Mermaid's Purse". In your case, paskod, that thing might be the eggshells of either salmon/any big fishes or amphibian.

I'd say we have a winner.

I cannot think of any N. American freshwater fish that lays its eggs in gelatinous masses.

Yep, exactly my thought.

It looks like a piece of rope not a spine... with two mud clods attached.

How big were those things? I'd go with Bryozoan.

Could be Pam Anderson's burst silicones too

Did you poke it with a stick??.............Or did anything come out?

Can't tell. Need more pics. Looks like jelly fish stuck to a piece of rebarb.

definitely a bryzoan colony, i recognized it immediately. they are pretty common.

i didnt bother reading all the pages but, hmmm- thats an odd one, ive never pulled anything outta the water like that before!
has anyone suggested a "siamese twin turtle" stuck together by the tail yet?

but do you still have it? is it dried out yet-=what does the bone structure look like (unless you threw it back in-lol)
of course too-water and fugus (whatever its called-like seaweed) do odd things..

Your Goat thing disturbs me.

All wrong you guys. Its the rotten spine, back and belly shell of a turtle. Mysterie solved!