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Mischa Porter landed this athead at night on a 14cm hard-bodied lure meant for a school jew sh.
Grahame Dowsett of Gulmarrad scored this quality jew sh from the ocean side of theYamba breakwall using live yellowtail as bait.
Headland action heats Aup, offshore set to fire
NYONE who has caught a jewfish will al-
Just Jew
by TYE PORTER
Rebekah Ellis with a midnight athead taken on a soft plastic lure.
No, not a bunch of freshly dug garden worms. They are in fact a huge ball of worms found in the stomach of Grahame Dowsett’s jew sh.
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most certainly have en- countered worms inside the fish.
weeks at minus 20C or simply cook the meat well before eating.
Dowsett of Gulmarrad. When his lovely wife Fran first sent me the picture, I thought she must have dug up a heap of bloodworms out of her garden for freshwater fishing, but
Be it live wriggling reddish nematodes – or roundworms – in the gut cavity or the small- er white spaghetti flat- worm trypanorhyncha, both are believed to use jewfish as a host before moving on to another species.
Jewfish are not the only species affected by these worms.
While the sight of ei- ther of these worms in a fish may be somewhat off-putting, the fact is that neither of them are directly harmful to hu- mans.
Both kingfish and cobia also carry them, along with other spe- cies – I have cleaned the odd luderick and turrum with spaghetti worm in its flesh.
that was not the case. Speaking of Fran and Grahame, they recently had a ball night fishing the Yamba breakwall using live yellowtail during the rising tide, and they hooked five very sizeable jewfish in
The worms in the flesh are easily re- moved, though if you have any doubt and fear being harmed by eating the flesh, you can either freeze the meat for two
At last count a few years ago, my tally on jew was around the 5000 mark, so needless to say I have seen my fair share of worms in fish, but I have never seen as many worms in one fish as the mas- sive bunch that was in the stomach of the jew caught by Grahame
one session. Unfortunately for
Fran, Grahame was the only one to put a fish on the rocks.
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