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saltundra
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 Posted: Sun Apr 27, 2014 8:19 pm Post subject: fish parasite? |
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Hello everybody I am new to the forum and fairly new to fishing with less that 15 fishing trips on my record. I am here to see if any of you guys can help me figure out what this weird sucking parasite like thing was on 2 catfish that i caught saturday night at Rockport TX. 
thanx for your help and if its something normal thanx also and I guess I learned something new. |
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Central Scrutinizer
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Yes, that is a fairly normal parasitic isopod. Catfish seem to attract them, and I have routinely seen them on whiting in the surf. Nothing to worry about. Just cast it AND the hardhead back in the water. [You did cast that hardhead back, right!?!?!  ] |
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saltundra
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| Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2014 8:49 am Post subject: |
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| Yes i did. Once we saw that. We were pretty grossed out about it. I had never seen that before. Thank you. I will try galveston next weekend. |
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OSOFARAWAY
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That looks like a sand flea.
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saltundra
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| I dont know what this could have been. I really looks like a tongue eating fish parasite which i think is what Central Scrutinizer mentioned. We actually like in Katy TX and went down there for a remodeling job my brother in law had and after all was finished we decided to do a little fishing. From 11 to about 12 we might have caught about 8 of those catfish all with those parasites. No fish were taken home. |
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The MATTador
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| OSOFARAWAY wrote: | | That looks like a sand flea. |
I was thinking the same thing. I had a few of those buggers on the anal and pelvic fins of a few gafttop that I pulled up a few weeks ago on the Station St pier in port A. Id be interested to know what exactly they are as well.
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FishLady
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Looks like sea lice to me...
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rodandroll
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| saltundra wrote: | | Yes i did. Once we saw that. We were pretty grossed out about it. I had never seen that before. Thank you. I will try galveston next weekend. |
You really don't want to keep hardheads either way.
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Central Scrutinizer
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| The MATTador wrote: | | Id be interested to know what exactly they are as well. |
Not a sea lice, or a sand flea, and not the tongue-replacing isopod either.
Can't go any further than a Family, but it is likely one of the Cymothoidae (of which, there are 40 different genera worldwide!!).
Way back in the archives of Corpusfishing is a good pictorial explanation of the differences between sea lice, sand fleas, and other such "baits" that are commonly confused. But this little bugger is almost always found attached on the outside of a fish, and in catfish, they tend to prefer the fins. They have some pretty mean looking hooks which they use to attach themselves, and feed off the blood of the host. |
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cbfishing88
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Parasitic isopod...they are pretty common and they dont ruin the quality of the fish. Even the the quality of the fish is already ruined being a catfish  |
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