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Worms in fish???
Posted on 4/19/24 at 5:00 pm
Posted on 4/19/24 at 5:00 pm
Went out of hopdale, la this morning. Had a great day and got a good haul.
19specs, 11 reds and some ole sheepheads
I’d say 80% of our fish had worms in em. I have all ways seen em in the big nasties (black drum) but never in specs and reds before!
Anyone else run into this?
19specs, 11 reds and some ole sheepheads
I’d say 80% of our fish had worms in em. I have all ways seen em in the big nasties (black drum) but never in specs and reds before!
Anyone else run into this?
Posted on 4/19/24 at 5:02 pm to Puddenn32
Shot certain times of the year I remember every spec having worms.
Posted on 4/19/24 at 5:04 pm to Puddenn32
Caught several smallmouth with this issue and threw them bak. Some old timers told me that I can fry the worms but others told me not to do it. I wouldn’t eat them.
Posted on 4/19/24 at 5:09 pm to Taxman2010
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Some old timers told me that I can fry the worms but others told me not to do it. I wouldn’t eat them.
I always filet my fish and if I spot a worm in it, I'll take the point of my filet knife and dig it out or use a pair of tweezers and pull them out.
Then I fry them to eat. I've found white trout, black drum and sheepshead almost always have worms in them.
Posted on 4/19/24 at 5:16 pm to Puddenn32
Most trout will have them if you look hard enough
They are harmless but I always try to get out what I can. I do not let the wife know what I am doing though. If she saw me pulling worms out, she probably isn’t going to eat them
They are harmless but I always try to get out what I can. I do not let the wife know what I am doing though. If she saw me pulling worms out, she probably isn’t going to eat them
Posted on 4/19/24 at 5:17 pm to gumbo2176
I eat them unless it's a huge patch of them. Nothing wrong with them and doesn't mean the fish is unhealthy.
Posted on 4/19/24 at 5:22 pm to Puddenn32
Yeah I try to get em out but I’ll eat em, read awhile back that they are harmless just curious if yall have seen em, we normally never have em in red fish or trout.
Posted on 4/19/24 at 5:38 pm to Puddenn32
Not in reds or specks but some wild sockeye. Put some marinade on them and came back a few mins later to worms crawling out on my counter
Posted on 4/19/24 at 5:48 pm to Griffindawg
Whattt that’s crazy, my ole lady wouldn’t touch that after seeing that lol. She ain’t seeing me prepare this fish for cooking lol
Posted on 4/19/24 at 6:05 pm to Puddenn32
Oysters are full of clear worms. If it survives 350 degree grease, it’s welcome in my belly. Worms that eat fish have to taste like fish.
Posted on 4/19/24 at 9:07 pm to Xhero
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How long you fry a worm?
You fry the fish like normal and the worm gets fried along with it. If you fry the fish until it's done, so are the worms........
In case you didn't already know this-------lots of fish carry parasites that you can't even see. That is one reason they recommend fish used for eating raw in sushi be previously frozen so as to kill any parasites.
Posted on 4/19/24 at 11:47 pm to Puddenn32
This is pretty much why I quit speck fishing….i couldn’t get past that shite.
Posted on 4/20/24 at 6:14 pm to Spankum
cleaned a large drum, turned out 90 percent worms. echhh
Posted on 4/21/24 at 7:39 am to Puddenn32
Many of the trout we would catch out of cocodrie around last island would have a couple. Just pop them out if they bother you. Once they hit the hot grease it’s all good. Like you said though big drum are the worst though.
Posted on 4/22/24 at 12:12 pm to Puddenn32
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Anyone else run into this?
All the time. The worms you find in saltwater game fish are actually in their intermediate hosts, their main target host where they reproduce is in sharks.
The risk of eating the worms, even raw, is very low. They are adapted to parasitize cold-blooded aquatic species, not warm-blooded mammals.
That said, once they are cooked, they aren't going to parasitize anything, and I've never found them to affect the flavor of my fillets anyway.
Posted on 4/22/24 at 1:45 pm to Puddenn32
I try to cut them out. I won't blackened fish with visible worms but I have fried them "extra crispy" with worms and didn't see them or taste them after they were fried.
I watched one guy on YouTube fillet a fish, pulled a worm out and ate it raw. He said they were harmless and he's still making videos, I guess he's right.
I watched one guy on YouTube fillet a fish, pulled a worm out and ate it raw. He said they were harmless and he's still making videos, I guess he's right.
Posted on 4/22/24 at 3:12 pm to Puddenn32
I’m 68 and been spec fishing all my life and worms in the fish is normal certain times of the year. Once you fry them you’ll never know they are there. I just try not to let my wife see them.
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