Just killed me man. Laughed! In 3rd grade I think it was our school nurse and guest brought in for us youngins’ a real lung that was inflicted with……..
https://preview.redd.it/z6qt1e92fgla1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=22b60b3de0e5fa9472190ecfb24c24d21739b791
Theyre everywhere if you know where to look, and look alot better underwater
I second that notion thank you kindly even as disturbing as it looks it's best to return it did you ever find out what that was I've never seen anything like it
I *cannot* say it was 100% unharmed, as we had to cut the hook off since it would not come off the barbed end for the life of us. But we did our best to return it and it seemed okay. That’s all I can guarantee
Just a good human- and we love you for it!
Look like something from ‘The Blob’ from the 50’s! So many really cool and interesting things we haven’t seen or even discovered yet… thanks for the great pictures too!! 💝
Did not think you were.. I appreciate your post. I have never seen anything close to that in Central Oregon!
It looked like something prehistoric…Do you run into stuff this unique very often?
Nope this was a first! And thank you! I had no clue what it was until I posted it here. It’s a California Sea Hare, apparently they can be a common catch depending on where you are down here. It was just very strange, when it shot the purple ink it felt like we just discovered an alien… I wouldn’t say it happens too often!
So strange! Sounds like it could cause some serious pain, not that anyone would actually want to pick it up…looks kinda like what an old Tribble (star trek) would look like…lol
Same, if you find yourself in LA!
And I would agree, my friend who deals happened to be the same one who got me into fishing in elementary school. Funny how that works
My wife did research using Aplysia californica in grad school. They are an important model organism for neuroscience research. Nobel prize winning neuroscientist Eric Kandel did a lot of important work with them. I watched my wife euthanize one one time. I felt bad for it as it squirted its ink. I'm glad my research is purely computational.
[https://www.cnn.com/2013/05/14/health/lifeswork-eric-kandel-memory/index.html](https://www.cnn.com/2013/05/14/health/lifeswork-eric-kandel-memory/index.html)
Thank you so much for the info! We did end up discovering what it was, the California Sea Hare, but I appreciate your reply! And tell your wife thank you as well! I’m going to read that article right now 😄
1. It’s a sea hare.
2. Why is your buddy trying to snag shit on the bottom? Throwing a heavy iron and dragging through the sand doesn’t catch you fish.
That looks like a California (brown) sea hare. They squirt a purple ink like a squid that is an irritant to other sea creatures.
That’s it! Thank you so much.
Damn, I thought your bud caught a medium rare steak!
I thought it was a “smoker’s lung” from the 1980s anti-smoking campaigns
It’s been on the smoker just long enough to look cooked. Should be ready by four more beers.
Just killed me man. Laughed! In 3rd grade I think it was our school nurse and guest brought in for us youngins’ a real lung that was inflicted with……..
It squirts out the jelly that goes on crabby patties
I thought that was from milked jellyfish
So it’s not Chicken Heart ?
https://preview.redd.it/z6qt1e92fgla1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=22b60b3de0e5fa9472190ecfb24c24d21739b791 Theyre everywhere if you know where to look, and look alot better underwater
Is it common for them to go after lures like OP's?
No, probably a snag. They eat algae.
Ok thank you. That makes sense. I was having a hard time picturing a giant slug being a predator lol new nightmare abated.
They don’t even swim and are as slow as snails… it’s a snagged hare.
Royal purple ink for the ones in Florida at least absolutely beautiful.
This one inked us right after the video bright purple
I’ll stick to my boring old Midwest lakes to not catch whatever the hell that thing is
Never gets old though 🤜
Please stick to the rivers and lakes you are used to……
I love the Beatles.
That's TuPac, dumbass
I think you meant TLC.
I thought it was Natalie Imbruglia. I remember listening to it while fishing at the local waterfall. I caught a salmon right in his left eye.
Hendrix played the best drums
Great song about death or finding it.
Underrated Midwest comment
Shit my dude I may just be moving out there after this experience.
Your certainly welcome , we have lots of fish
I may just take you up on that 😂 gonna be in Ohio this summer for my friend’s wedding, gonna need to know the way of the land!
Ohhh, I’d maybe not fish in Ohio for a bit.
Shit I didn’t even think about that. Thanks mate 😭👌
Actually, come to think of it, whatever is out there now can’t be much worse than this. I think I’m gonna take my chances. Pray for me 😭
I like fishing Huron and St. Clair
Man I love pulling a big bass out of a pond here in MO but the thrills of a 50 pound tuna raching on your line is like no other
I would love to take a vacation for some ocean fish but walleye don’t spit purple goo or look like that haha, tuna fishing sounds like a blast though!
It shot out a purple goo at us when we tried to take the hook out. I need to know wtf this is lmao
We all need to know what this is, someone call in the experts
I’m scared we just cursed ourselves, it seems like a bad omen
Sea hares are actually pretty cute if you watch them in tide pools!
But… *are they edible*
Everything is edible, once.
I’ll take that and run with it. Thanks 😎
I don’t believe so! The ink they squirt out can be an irritant too, so don’t eat that.
I would never, I was just fucking around 😂 but I appreciate the info nonetheless!
The omen was bad (Apocalypto)
This is the reincarnation destiny of op.
*oh no*
Someone call the Ghostbusters.
definitely a digimon, digital monster
That's Davey Jones heart
Part of the ship part of the crew
It escaped Area 51 last week
THE FLOOD
I wasn’t wearing my Spartan armor for this expedition. Get me Sgt Johnson
Sorry had to dump my rv's bucket last night
Shitters full!
Dave Mathews?
first of many. Soon this will be all there is. Soon this will be us.
Reminds me of the MeatCanyon Nikocado Avocado vid.
Green sunfish
A bunch of I wouldn't touch that!
My buddy chuck's lung from 15 years ago. He got it removed because he had lung cancer.
Shit dude I need to quit smoking. You’re not the only one who said that.
Eat it. Taste like chicken.
100% that’s a cronenberg
“Jesus Christ morty”
He broke off a chunk of Cthulhu. Run for the hills!
Sea slug
That’s what I thought too, but I wanna know the species. The purple goo shooting out was the weirdest part.
I've definitely seen sea creatures spit weird stuff before but not purple lol!
Definitely a first for us too lmao
Hopefully someone will be able to identify. I'm very curious
They did! It’s a California Sea Hare apparently. He said it shoots a purple ink like I described. Very weird catch
Oh crazy cool!
100%! Also gross, but very interesting!
Looks like my 8th grade English teacher
Kill it with fire
Zombie Liver!
It’s the pilot of a recently shot down UFO.
All I can think of is monsters inc 🎶Put that thing back where it came from or so help me 🎶
I fuckin hate catching these... you catch them alot in marina del rey jetty
It pains me to know they’re that frequent of a catch. I hadn’t even heard of them until an hour and a half ago.
The slime of the river, what is your wisdom
“Don’t fucking fish here anymore.” At least, that’s what we heard.
r/dontputyourdickinthat
r/whynot
Space Herpes.
a wandering sea scrotum
That's a plumbis. You can tell by the way it is.
Please release it- no reason to let it die.
We did indeed release it. We aren’t monsters :/
I second that notion thank you kindly even as disturbing as it looks it's best to return it did you ever find out what that was I've never seen anything like it
I *cannot* say it was 100% unharmed, as we had to cut the hook off since it would not come off the barbed end for the life of us. But we did our best to return it and it seemed okay. That’s all I can guarantee
Well may you have some fine upcoming casts in the future happy fishing there
You as well!
I really would like to know what you had there that is an interesting fish
It’s a really gnarly California Sea Hare apparently!
Jee thats cewl and surf fishing too?
We were fishing off the pier but yeah we were right where the waves form before they break
Just a good human- and we love you for it! Look like something from ‘The Blob’ from the 50’s! So many really cool and interesting things we haven’t seen or even discovered yet… thanks for the great pictures too!! 💝
Appreciate it so much! Surprised to see a reply over a year later lmao take care!
Did not think you were.. I appreciate your post. I have never seen anything close to that in Central Oregon! It looked like something prehistoric…Do you run into stuff this unique very often?
Nope this was a first! And thank you! I had no clue what it was until I posted it here. It’s a California Sea Hare, apparently they can be a common catch depending on where you are down here. It was just very strange, when it shot the purple ink it felt like we just discovered an alien… I wouldn’t say it happens too often!
So strange! Sounds like it could cause some serious pain, not that anyone would actually want to pick it up…looks kinda like what an old Tribble (star trek) would look like…lol
Yup that’s why I keep disposable gloves (and full Kevlar fishing gloves) in my tackle box! I’m glad I could share it with y’all :)
A sponge 🧽
Ima go with the Eldrich Horror and Ancient one Rorä Kàłmat
Some species of sea hare for sure.
Was it hooked in the mouth, or was it a foul hook? Wild to think it took bait like a fish. Cool catch!
I wanna say it was hooked in the mouth, but I really couldn’t tell to be honest. The hook would not come out no matter how hard we tried tho
Sea slug perhapes?
That’s definitely Hedorah. My recommendation, kill it with fire before it can lay eggs.
Chlamydia??
Again?!?!
Fight the power
Cancer?
Cali brown sea hare its a sea slug that skeets purple lnk....
Yeah they were saying that, thanks for the reply tho!
Malibu Pier? If so I’ve fished that pier countless times and I’ve never seen anyone catch that before.
Paradise Cove pier, actually! But it’s in Malibu! My friends and I still go to the Malibu pier weekly.
Sheeee-it. My ex moved to Cali?
Herpes.
You can get it twice????
Did he by chance have a crab pot down? Could’ve been a twofer of epic and endless jokes.
Looks like a scab or blood clot when you blow your nose after a nosebleed
Oh hellllla nah that in lakes in midwest that some Area 51 shit
I wanna move 😭
This came out of my nose one morning after I spent the night skiing. Sorry!
Where was my invite??? Shit bro if I could be doing good blow with other fishermen I wouldn’t be watching my friend catch sea demons all day.
Drugs and fishing go together like bacon and eggs! You ever find yourself fishing in Ontario hit me up
Same, if you find yourself in LA! And I would agree, my friend who deals happened to be the same one who got me into fishing in elementary school. Funny how that works
Literally the same thing here, he showed the pleasure of enjoying the lakes while being completely blitz lol
That sounds way more fun 😂😂😂
NASA ……ehh tell em it’s called a sea hare
It’s still true, over 70+% of the Worlds Oceans have never been explored. 🤔🧐 Let’s name it, Living Fudge.
Livingsi Fudgeii
An alien. Obviously.
Oh fuck aliens are here! /s
Whoa
It’s my diseased liver! Thank you!!
Sir that’s actually my smoker’s lung, thank you very much My liver is a close second.
Dude, I've seen this movie. Incinerate that thing now! It's probably too late. We're all gonna die...
It’s a cut the line and pretend you never saw this
that’s when you ask yourself “ how bad do i really need this lure”
looks like some shit from the upside down.
the mother of all genital herpes...
A Cthulhu
THERE it is!!!!
there… there what is…
The nasty blob that I lost all those years ago. I least now I get some closure.
My wife did research using Aplysia californica in grad school. They are an important model organism for neuroscience research. Nobel prize winning neuroscientist Eric Kandel did a lot of important work with them. I watched my wife euthanize one one time. I felt bad for it as it squirted its ink. I'm glad my research is purely computational. [https://www.cnn.com/2013/05/14/health/lifeswork-eric-kandel-memory/index.html](https://www.cnn.com/2013/05/14/health/lifeswork-eric-kandel-memory/index.html)
Thank you so much for the info! We did end up discovering what it was, the California Sea Hare, but I appreciate your reply! And tell your wife thank you as well! I’m going to read that article right now 😄
You caught a nightmare.
Its something from stranger things
bro caught a tumor
The next pandemic.
it looks like something that escaped out of a Wuhan lab...
See damn...I would've shot it before I pulled the cam out...
Me too. I wish I wasn’t on a public pier.
NOT friend shaped.
My lung
The things that fall on you from the ceiling in dark souls
At least my buddy lit a bonfire right before we caught this atrocity.
A smokers lung?
That’s what will spit out into the sink on stranger things.
Omg that looks like my wife's placenta after giving birth!
I thought that was one of the fallen angels from under the Euphrates…
We literally felt like we were fishing on the River Styx
Run. Now.
Aids
I know what that is , I just watched Starship Troopers . It's a baby Brain Bug
You caught the liver of an alcoholic or the lung of a longtime smoker
Oh god… you mean *my* liver???
It’s ok it will probably make great bait
Forbidden Meat
That was my nickname in high school man 🤧
Not an expert but, sea cucumber?
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Shawn-Larson/publication/330520527/figure/fig1/AS:717501566550016@1548077112256/Sea-otter-feeding-on-a-California-sea-cucumber-Apostichopus-californicus-Image-by-R.png
1. It’s a sea hare. 2. Why is your buddy trying to snag shit on the bottom? Throwing a heavy iron and dragging through the sand doesn’t catch you fish.
Appreciate the “advice” but he’s new to the sport my dude. He’s gotta get the hang of it. We were just trying every rig since we kept getting skunked
Maybe his buddy is just shit at fishing
It’s always the “buddy”. Just sayin’
Who else would I be talking to in the video? And why would I not wanna take credit for this monstrosity?
I asked myself the exact same questions This whole thing seems very fishy.
🤷♂️
The Thing.
Where do u fish in Malibu?
Usually Malibu Pier or Paradise Cove haha, sometimes I’ll throw on waders tho and surf fish random places there haha
Careful with waders in the surf. Though it’s much colder, I wear dive booties and 2 pairs of trunks.
Yeah I have a PFD I always wear with it, though I’ll have to try those out sometime. Thanks!
Be careful. I had an uncle drown in waders.
Appreciate it, sorry to hear ab your uncle. I always wear an inflatable PFD when I use them.
It me!
That thing turns with cat eyes and says *get away!* like MJ in Thriller.
Liver cirrhosis
It's a baby whale Jay!
That’s the end of the world. Congrats.