was sent this on my facebook page, have seen white and black grubs but not these. thinking warmer water?
check this out.
https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v...028157&fref=nf
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was sent this on my facebook page, have seen white and black grubs but not these. thinking warmer water?
check this out.
https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v...028157&fref=nf
(WARNING - Facebook comments to this video contain foul language !! )
It's a round worm, they are in a lot of fish. They live in the gut cavity and if you don't put your fish on ice right away they will burrow into the meat. I've seen it a lot with perch in the summer, the hotter it is the more you see it.
Yep, I see them a lot here in the Summer time. They cook up just fine:biggrin
I haven't seen them that bad. We get them occasionally. I would have to toss fillets that had them that bad. Normally I'll just cut them out and proceed.
looks scary but as long as the meat is cooked thoroughly you're fine.
So icing your catch right away keeps them from burrowing into the meat?
Ive always iced them anyway so i guess I dont have to worry. Makes me wonder what the benefit of livewells are? My thinking is out of the water, if its a keeper it goes in the ice chest. Fillet them and the fillets got back on ice until theyre packaged and put in the freezer. They always taste fresh to me that way.
So why use a livewell? I think if I ever get a boat the livewell is just going to be a built in ice chest in the boat.
Shallow lakes are worse than deeper lake around here anyways. They come from duck or Geese pooping in the lake and the fish eat the feces and get the worms from that. We have some worms that look like a grub but nothing like that one in the video. That looks like a blood worm. The Fish and Game here said we could just take them out or just deep fry the fillets and they would hurt you. If there isn't too many in the fillets I will just pop them out and cook them anyway. They look bad but they won't harm you by eating them according to the G&P commission. EB
If your livewell is efficient I'd think you would be fine. I was told it's from the fish getting too hot, the worm can't survive any more and starts burrowing it's self out. But I'm no biologist, fry it eat it be happy your belly is full :)Quote:
Originally Posted by RiverSlabber
most people i know ice them too. the live well would be good for culling, but thats about it. i think it firms them up a bit.Quote:
Originally Posted by RiverSlabber
we have those worms here too. its like pulling out a piece of cajun red line. lol
So, your not supposed to fill your livewell with ice and beer? :dono
I use my livewell for culling fish. You know... the times when you catch a nice one right off the bat, throw him in the cooler only to never catch another one all day long.... Like those times!
If you don't have a timer on your livewell or circulate the water regularly, you might as well throw them on ice.
This.....
Eustrongylides is a nematode that uses fish as its intermediate host. The definitive host is a wading bird, a common visitor to ponds. The worm encysts in the peritoneum or muscle of the fish and appears to cause little damage. Because of the large size of the worms (Figure 22), infected fish may appear unsuitable for retail sales. Protecting fish from wading birds and eliminating the intermediate host, the oligocheate or Tubifex (soft-bodied worms), are the best means to prevent infection.
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More here, if interested. CIR716/FA041: Introduction to Freshwater Fish Parasites
I have had them in fish mainly ice fishing. I leave them laying on the ice until I go home and they still have them in the meat around the shoulders mainly. Summer time I use my livewell all the time and have a timer on it to circulate the water every so often and don't have them in the meat. On our shallower lakes is where I see them mostly. EB
They are common not only in crappie but also bass, goggle-eye(warmouth) and other in the sunfish family. Those are ones that I know of because I have seen them. The knife tip flicks it out and all is good. I see these worms in fish that I catch out of oxbows and out of Reelfoot.
I keep my fish in my livewell pumping fresh water on them through out the day. If I get 20 or so in the livewell, I will cull out 10 or 15 and put them on ice during the summer. About 20 fish is all my livewell will keep alive in the hot summer sun.
Does anybody seriously think those worms get into crappie from being in the livewell? Those worms take quite a while to go thru their life cycle, probably days to weeks. What parasites one sees in fillets were there well before they were caught.
If my livewell had a bearing on the worms, I'd have a livewell full of worms and no fish. I like to keep my fish alive as long as possible.
I don't think anyone is suggesting that livewells "cause" the worms. What they are suggesting is that very warm water may cause the worms to burrow into the meat, from their normal place in the fish's gut. From seeing all the pics & posts from my Google searches, showing these worms in the flesh of fish from Northern climes, I'm not convinced that warm water causes them to migrate into the meat ... but that it's a normal migration movement.
... cp :kewl