[Grady Guy]

Is it me, or are there a lot more jelly fish in the sound this year. Seems like a lot on the CT side. NY too?

This post edited by Grady Guy 01:35 PM 07/22/2008

 

[Slick56]

You have to see how many are in Raritan bay

Fished a PB this past weekend and a number of times while retrieving my line it snagged a Jellyfish. Well upon removing the slime from my spro i got some of it on my arm. Stung for a few minutes. Somebody said pee on your arm. I said what!!

LOL. Well i didnt exactly pee on it but close enough and what do ya know it relieved the sting.

 

[hauler]

Good amount in Huntington Bay and I heard complaint of same up in the cape last week.
We didn't have any in two years, now this year I see more then ever.

 

[myagi00]

A bunch of us were swimming in Hemlock cove on the South Shore on sunday and it felt like we were swimming in jello. They were all over.



This post edited by myagi00 01:56 PM 07/22/2008

 

[Bigkeepers]

A few of us got stung this past weekend off Short Beach. The warm water has them everywhere.

 

[saltedcod]

tons of red jellies in the sound off bayville and hempstead harbor...
that is the worst when you reel them in...or pieces of them that you can't see but just feel...

watch out for an anchor rope...the tenticles get tangleg in that and then you pull them up all over you...

 

[Scott1280]

Had a couple floating around the raft-up on sunday. Scary with my daughter in the water. When I came out of the water I has little tingles and pains here and there on my skin. Figured it might be liquefied jelly tentacles in the water.

 

[Nikoli]

Newsday Article

 

[Lindanel]

alot around mamaroneck and around scotch caps too, was swimming near scotch caps the other day and kept having to warn eachother that there were big red jellyfish swimming near us

 

[qlty]

Blame Al Gore Global warming LMAO. I was on a ship in the 50s off Newfoundland water temp was in the low 40s we had to shut down the engines quite often to clean out the intake strainers of jelly fish.Was out in the sound last week saw many. Must be a cycle thing.JMHO Might be good fertilizer for the garden is there a creel or size limit?

 

[bonsiguy]

ya lots of lions mains last week we saw a large sea turtle and im shure we will see molla molla like last year.

 

[Lindanel]

in the sound!?

 

[bass28]

i cant stand them thing anymore! i get stung a good 5-10times a trip when i dont wear my waders and so far im lucky not to get stung by a REAL giant one,ive seen plenty of giant ones dead on the beach but not stinging.

 

[SORTIE]

the NYT Science section had a feature story on the lion's manes yesterday. they apparently breed in super-cold water up north and have moved into our waters en masse. lifeguards keep spray bottles of vinegar handy to defuse the stings

a couple of years ago I was stung in the water and had a painful rash for a few days afterward...bumps were small and numerous

 

[wader]

Nissequoge River is LOADED with them

size of a dinner plate & trailing 2 foot tenticles....

 

[SinkerBouncer]

Definitely the jellies are an epidemic this year.

I heard a report on the news while driving and they attributed the problem to too much nitrogen in the water.

 

[Koz54]

They sure are epidemic this year.

I was wondering how long a jellyfish sting wound is supposed to take to heal. I was surf fishing out east (Northwest Harbor, no waders ) and got stung on my ankle about two weeks ago.

Sure it burnt for a while and got swollen, but nothing too bad. The mark has not completely healed; actually it has only gotten slightly better. It is red & blotchy, and even now has a couple of small scabs.

It itches (I am guessing because of the scabs) but I don?t knowingly scratch it.

This post edited by Koz54 02:17 PM 07/23/2008

 

[Mungo]

jelly fish

Saw them in mid April when we were toggin .The little creek where I keep the boat is loaded with them and we cant ever remember seeing them all the way in where they are.
Fishin been good though.

 

[659393]

"What's causing it?" said Eric Klos, who studies jellyfish at the University of Rhode Island's Graduate School of Oceanography. "The true answer is we don't know." He said global warming could be a factor, along with overfishing of the species that also eat the plankton that jellyfish feed on.

Another Global Warming crisis

 

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