tape worms and mites in fish
Just venting here. I've finally put up my bow for the year and decided to get the boat out and give it a try yesterday. The weather here in Kentucky has been unseasonably warm and the crappie and bluegills were very active. I caught somewhere near 100 or so in about four hours. I decided to take 15 crappies home for a meal and every single one of them had tape worms I discovered as I was fileting them. The bluegills had little black mites on the outside of their flesh, and I didn't keep any. Anyone have this same thing happen before? I ended up throwing all of the crappie away since each fish had between 3-5 tapeworms in them.