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Title: What's in my rainbow? Parasite?
Post by: waterlike on Nov 03, 2019, 04:40 PM

Cleaning my fish that I caught yesterday I'm noticing something I've never seen before on the skin in between the skin and the meat. Anybody know what this is? Is it a bug? This was at a Laramie plains lake that had an algae bloom late summer fall. Does that have anything to do with it? I caught two fish at this lake and one did not have these little black spots, and I caught a fish in a nearby lake that did not have these black spots. I'm worried if I should eat it or not or be  worried about anything that it's touched?
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Title: Re: What's in my rainbow? Parasite?
Post by: Seamonkey84 on Nov 03, 2019, 04:44 PM

The same black spots that we see in panfish and bass. They are fine as long as you cook them, but they’re unsightly for sure.

Title: Re: What's in my rainbow? Parasite?
Post by: Gunflint on Nov 03, 2019, 05:00 PM

Quote from: Seamonkey84 on Nov 03, 2019, 04:44 PM

The same black spots that we see in panfish and bass. They are fine as long as you cook them, but they’re unsightly for sure.

Ditto

Here is an explanation from the MN DNR:

Neascus (Black spot disease)
Cause of disease: Parasite - Uvulifer spp., Neascus spp., Black grub

https://www.dnr.state.mn.us/fish_diseases/neascus.html (https://www.dnr.state.mn.us/fish_diseases/neascus.html)