What parasite is this

[tomfor]

Northern most point of lake Huron St Mary's river between Sugar Island Michigan and Sault Ontario. 26 inch walleye

[TJQ]

Ugg..   never seen that before

[Spiel]

Gross! I'm not certain but perhaps some type of (young) leech or maybe parasitic copepods.

[akaShag]

Aliens.

[Terry]

That’s one infested piece of tail 

[Headhunter]

How did it taste?

HH

[BITEME]

no extra charge for the meat!

 

[Barry Willis]

That is the ugliest and most incredible thing I have ever seen on a fish. If it isn't too late I would take it to MNR and let their biologists figure it out. I'm sure they would be anxious to delve into it, It could be of some importance.

[BillM]

Parasitic copepods like Chris mentioned above. 

[Spiel]

4 hours ago, Terry said:

That’s one infested piece of tail 

Penicillin might fix it, ya....no!  lol

[swampdoggr7]

grand son got a bass on bark lake with something similar in the stomach and gills.they must be eating it.

[Ron]

Sorry, reading the topic header, I thought it was going to be a picture Justin Trudeau.

[Barry Willis]

Here's a picture of Justin.

[Dara]

Just fish lice by the looks of it. I have seen them lots on speckled trout...and yeah, I was expecting a pic of Justin as well

[fishboy]

can we stick to fishing on a fishing site and leave the politics for another forum?

[Barry Willis]

What's the matter, no sense of HAHA.