What the @#$^@%^@^!! I caught a chrome silver today and got it home and filleted it open and it had white puss pockets all over the inside of the fish...I know this was a topic here at one point....can anyone enlighten me?

I found the same thing in a king I caught in BC last month and never did get any answer to what it was. Were they about the size of peas or a little larger?

Thanks for the info FNP.

One of the Ebay kings I caught this summer had a couple cysts in the meat. I have heard of others with lots of cysts.

I HAVE RUN INTO THOSE PARASITES FOR YEARS. A FISH AND GAME GUY TOLD ME THEY WERE HARMLESS AND TO GO AHEAD AND EAT THE FISH BUT WHEN THEY MATURE AND YOU DIG THEM OUT, THEY ARE A LARVA, LIKE A MAGGOT. YOU GO AHEAD AND EAT THEM, I,M NOT. GOOD REASON TO TAKE A GOOD LOOK AT YOUR FISH BEFORE YOU YARD THEM OUT OF THE WATER. DH

if you know your fish you would know that these parasites dont leave marks on the outside of the fish....only the inside....just a fyi

It's been some time since I caught a salmon with a cist infestation, but I do recall being able to easily see the bumps under the skin. At the time, I didn't know what they were, but I cooked it up, and then fed it to the dogs as soon as I ran into one of those white nodules. They may be harmless, but I couldn't take it.

The subcutaneous cysts that F5A speaks about are a very different type of infestation from tapioca disease. Lots of coho with the subQ cysts which are hard and nodular. Tapioca disease is very SOFT.... like a Dairy Queen cone on a 80 degree day.... and you cannot determine its presence or absence by the external appearance of the fish.