Worms in fish???

Shot certain times of the year I remember every spec having worms.

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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.

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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.

I eat them unless it's a huge patch of them. Nothing wrong with them and doesn't mean the fish is unhealthy.

How long you fry a worm?

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

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.

This is pretty much why I quit speck fishing….i couldn’t get past that shite.

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.

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Anyone else run into this?

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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.

Article on worms.
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