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In the trout, or surgically remove them with the filet knife?

Do the trout have these worms all year, or just the summer months?

I don't eat them.

If the fish is thoroughly cooked there'd probably be nothing wrong with eating them.

That being said, we have 3 young ones in the house ... so I remove them and take no chances.

I'm sure Apalach or Littoral or somebody can come in and give us a class on them not really being worms, but Nemo toads.

Anyway, yeah, you can eat them in cooked fish. Not sure about raw. If you've got squeamish people at the table you can camouflage them by deep frying.

What they don't know, don't bother em I have never picked the worms out, just fry em up with the fish We eat fish at least once a week and my 10yo has shown no signs of being wormy "cept that she can eat more than her mom and I put together"

These animals have an interesting life cycle. The worms are a larval form of tapeworm that have to get into a shark to reach adulthood. Which tells you something about being a seatrout, I think. Anyway, all the articles I've found say that the worms are harmless to humans with one including this rather extreme bit of information: "Some trout caught may have worms embedded in the flesh along the backbone. These "spaghetti" worms are larval stages of a tapeworm that can only reach maturity in sharks. It cannot survive in man even if it is eaten raw. The worms can easily be removed during filleting to make the meat more appealing." That seems like an extreme form of sashimi.

Article is at http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/huntwild/wi ... es/strout/