Monsterpleco;3490392; said:It looks like a colony of life forms that was recently "discovered" near my house. http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/5483707/ They suggest it's what you said earlier, bryozoans. "Thomas Kwak, a biology professor at North Carolina State University's Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, however, says the so-called monster is actually a cluster of invertebrates called bryozoan, which are commonly found in both the sea and fresh water environments."
I actually found this a few miles from the one you spoke of. I found mine at Falls Lake. The fisheries biologist emailed me back and confirmed that it was a bryozoan colony.
He would of been better off with the barrel