Jellyfish in Cumberland

[mhall]

Absolutely not , give me some time and I''l get you the name of those things. They are ugly and do look like what you are saying but they are most certainly NOT jellyfish.

[Moose1am]

You guys are talking about TWO DIFFERENT Species. The spongy type substance that grows on submerged standing trees near the water line is one thing. But the fresh water jelly fish are another species. These jelly fish that I have observed are small. Maybe 1" or 2" around in the bell and with very short trailing tentacles. They are clear and transparent and hard to see unless the light is just right. They can be observed free swimming though the water about 1 ft below the surface. I have only seen them one time while water skiing at Patoka Lake. I was reluctant to get into the water at first when I first saw them. We just moved to another bay and went on water skiing that day. I must admit I had a hard time at first with this observation. But my wife and daughter saw them too. We didn't know anything about them at the time and I was not going to pick them up or touch them. Better to be safe than sorry. But later on I read about them somewhere and found out that they were not harmful to humans. These are not the famous Box Jelly fish by any means. They are small and basically harmless to humans as far as I know. We were in the water swimming at one point when we first noticed them.