Sandy flesh walleyes

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I cleaned my first walleye with sand flesh (myofibrogranuloma) last week. I caught it in the tailrace, and seen another one my uncle caught on sakakawea this spring. How common is it? Any one know what causes it, or how it's transferred?
 


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I’ve run into two in my life.

Gross or what? Ha ha ha. It’s not a pleasant surprise.
 
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Yeah it was gross, chucked it straight in the grinder.
 


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I think I have also only run across two in all the years I've chased walleyes. It's a pretty noticeable condition when it's advanced far enough along in its development, but I've often wondered how many I've caught and cleaned over the years that were in the early stages of its development.

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p.s. According to Google, it's not a well studied affliction. The scientists think it may be akin to muscolar dystrophy in humans, but causation and if it's able to adversely affect people is unknown.
 

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One here, one there. Not common where I wet a line by any means. I'm actually very suprised when I find one. Last one was years ago from a MN lake that was choked with weeds and bathwater warm. ICKY!!!!!
 

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sandy flesh and crayfish assholes - yeesh

glad I'm dining on fresh perch tonight and not walleyes
 

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I cleaned an otherwise healthy looking 20 some odd inch walleye earlier this summer from eastern ND lake that had sand flesh. it was quite unappealing to say the least
 


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right?.... what's bizarre is that they appear, for all intents and purposes, to be a perfectly healthy fish
 

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I saw it a few times during the early 80's up a Sak. Not since then. It's gross.
 

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Like muscular dystrophy in humans I believe its genetic. Would be interesting to know if it affects one sex of fish more greatly than the other, like some muscular dystrophies.
 

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scary movie 2 has a scene about it

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also cleaned one in tray not to long ago disgusting
 


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First time I ran into sandy flesh was in the in 2010 in goose by harvey nd caught two that had it. The warts that fish get in the spring look worse.
 

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I'd never seen it before until this month, had two on the same day. Mid sak, both fish were in that 21-22 inch range.
Hated to toss those beautiful fillets but after looking it up that's what the G&F recommends doing.

 


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