Freshwater jellyfish?

[Moveon]

Has anyone ever seen any before? If so when and where at?

I've seen these in Patoka Lake a couple of times while we were out on the lake water sking and fishing. The water at Patoka is very clear or was back in those days. I'm not up at Patoka as much as I was back in the early 1990's so I've not see them since that time. It was in the June or July as the daughter was with us and school was out. We were camping up there at the time.

At first it kind of freaked me out as I didn't know what type of jelly fish there were. I've seen lots of jelly fish in the Ocean but that was the first time I ever saw the freshwater jelly fish and I was not sure if they could sting or not at that time. Later I did some research on them and figured out that they don't sting people or at least it not that powerful of a sting and we can't really feel them. But at the time I first saw them we picked up the skies and moved to a different part of the lake.

I think that water quality has to be very good for them to survive and I guess Patoka Lake was perfect for them at the time as there were hundred of them in the water that day.

[Firefighter215]

I had never heard of these little fellas until this post. Today I was on cave run around zilpo flats and looked down and seen something. After futher inspection I realized it was a jellyfish. It was about the size of a quarter. I have to say that was pretty cool. Oh and I seen a guy pull out a nice toothy one on the flats.