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koifish

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An old chum with sea lice??
« on: October 28, 2013, 10:43:16 PM »
I got a chum today it was black an old chum. But it had sea lice on it some long things on the sides I thought the fresh ones have sea lice?
They looked like leeches or worms
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Re: An old chum with sea lice??
« Reply #1 on: October 28, 2013, 11:08:04 PM »
Do you have any pictures ?  I think those are worms not sea lice.
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Re: An old chum with sea lice??
« Reply #2 on: October 28, 2013, 11:13:22 PM »
Last year I caught MANY chum in the salt chuck that were absolutely disgusting.
I was actually into a few schools off the beach that were quite bitey, but rarely got clean ones.
Most were black bellied and barred up under slightly silver scales.

A few actually even had mold on them in the estuary area I was fishing, didn't think that was possible in salt water  :o I'm thinking those ones must had been in the river a short time and dropped back or something.
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Re: An old chum with sea lice??
« Reply #3 on: October 28, 2013, 11:14:40 PM »
Sea lice are most often found around the anal fin or adipose fin areas of the fish. If they were around the gill plates or pectoral fins they were more than likely worms.
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Re: An old chum with sea lice??
« Reply #4 on: October 29, 2013, 08:16:01 AM »
Unfortunately I didn't take a pic I didn't want to waste so much time on the chum  snce I had a coho adrenalin rush lol and my phone was in my pocket I was wearing waders but the chum wasn't dieing wasn't moldy either just was old
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Re: An old chum with sea lice??
« Reply #5 on: October 29, 2013, 09:20:17 AM »
I had the same question stuck in my head for the past week. thanks Johnny Canuck for clearing that it was worms and not sea lice.
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Re: An old chum with sea lice??
« Reply #6 on: October 30, 2013, 12:36:03 PM »
Oh good grief!  Worms; urgh [shiver runs down spine].  Do these things infest the flesh?  I'm hoping to catch a relatively clean chum in the near future for the smoker and the thought of worms (nematodes I presume) is more than a little off-putting.
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Re: An old chum with sea lice??
« Reply #7 on: October 30, 2013, 12:40:32 PM »
gill worms, they are like little leaches inside there gills.
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Re: An old chum with sea lice??
« Reply #8 on: October 30, 2013, 04:39:11 PM »
that must have been what the little leech was that was stuck to my hand on sunday. I bet I fished with it there for a good 10-20mins before noticing it. It even left a tiny little pin size red mark after I flicked it off  ???

I have seen them before but not too often. never had one stick to me though
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