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Caught a mess of crappie sunday, and put the fillets in a ice cream tub, soaking in salt water. Went to cook some for lunch today and noticed some kindda string in the bottom of the bowl. WRONG!!!! It started squirming when I picked it up! It was about 3 inches long and the size of dental floss. Disgusting!
350 degree grease will cure anything
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Originally Posted by torch
Them there little worms wont hurt you, fry em up good and crisp and you never know they were there. That is kinda typical with summer time brackish water fish. Parasites and worms are just part of warm brackish water fish. I see them on conway fish all the time and in multiple species of fish.
We cut em out of the few we catch around here. I'm sure I've fried a few also. They taste like crappie to me. BWAHAHAHAHA.
Big River Marine
Bill Burnett
870-635-0202
dang? i catch crappie just to eat those> em good!
is that a big foot hidding just to the right of the photo? if so i eat those too> big foot back straps are awsome!~
Don't go talking about big foot over here on the Arkansas Board, there is a gewber on the Sippi Board that will come over here and talk all day about big feets.Rofl:biggrin
When rinsing my fillets I examine each fillet for parasites and take the tip of my fillet knife and pick it out. Those blood worms are ussally balled up in a red bloth in the meat easy to spot. There is also a little yellow worm most common in bass fillets I pick out also, they are harder to spot and i dont know why but they love bass. Hardly ever find one in a crappie.
Those yellow or white and about about the size of a grain of rice? The worms are in Crawfish which are eat'n by Bass then Bass by wading Birds then pooped back into water to complete life cycle.Quote:
Originally Posted by CrappiePro
Ewww! I dont look.:rolleyes: Rinse and cornmeal right quick...and into the grease.Thumbs Up
Im going to do my best not to eat a worm fried or unfried of any kind, I also dont want to serve up a nice worm filled fillet to the people I cook for or give fish to.
It was about 20 years ago and I knew nothing about parasites, went to a little lake in northwest ark and caught about 10 bass, took them home filleted them and cook up for some friends, the next day went back to the same lake and caught another 8 or 10 this time when I cleaned them I noticed both the red worms and yellow parasites in every fish , knowing the fish the day before had to have had them made my stomach turn, I never mentioned this to anyone who ate fish that day butt it didn't make anyone sick or anything so I'm sure theres nothing wrong with eating a few of em!!
Game and Fish biologist tole me one time that if I knew all the parasites in meat, both wild and domestic, I'd be a vegetarian. I'm sure it wont' hurt, but it was kindda gross finding that dude in the bottom of the bowl, especially since I'd eat fish out of it last night. I notice on one fish that there was a gash across his back, but I figured he'd been sucked up in the relift pump or something, and even noticed a bruised looking spot on the fillet. Didn't think nothing about it. I'm sure thats where he was hiding.
You can't tell where they been most of the time. I heard AGFC say cooked their harmless.Quote:
Originally Posted by dblevens
We been catching alot of fish with gashes lately. Figure Gar or wading birds doing it.
i have only found one thing any kind of bass is good for(black,white or yellow) they make great fertilize for my garden!!!!!!!!!!
Yeah, good ole DD!!! The Bigfoot expert!!! LolQuote:
Originally Posted by creekslick
Big River Marine
Bill Burnett
870-635-0202
Sounds like a pretty Crappy life to me. BWAHAHAHAHA.Quote:
Originally Posted by NIMROD
Big River Marine
Bill Burnett
870-635-0202
Who said bass? This worm crawled out of a crappie fillet! lol
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Originally Posted by MEATGETTER
Big River Marine
Bill Burnett
870-635-0202
Hey, that's fish, too.....don't hurt a thing and gives 'em a little more flavor to savor!!
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Originally Posted by Lkconwayguru
Looks like some bonus catfish bait to me. I always hated to dig worms.
Crappie are just as good a fertilizer if not better, they are not as tough as a bass and they rot a lot quicker. You might as well categorize crappie as a nuisance fish, their limit in most all places I have seen is double what bass limit is. So I guess the agfc must think so to since they put such a liberal limit on them. I think that crappie need to have their limit cut in half and a 12 to 16 inch slot limit put on them.Quote:
Originally Posted by MEATGETTER
Whoever eats the most squirrel eats the most hair. Whoever eats the most fish eats the most worms.