Its a complicated life cycle with the worms. They also involve birds eating the snails where the larve mature in their throat (if I remember correctly). I find lakes that are shallow with lots of weeds have more worms (warmer water I guess).
I do find Muskrat very bad for worms though. The bass are infested with them.
Muskrat Feb 3
Right on the money. I came across this last spring with mud cats, mud pout, barbot, or whatever the locals call them where your from.. I did some research back then.crunchy wrote:Its a complicated life cycle with the worms. They also involve birds eating the snails where the larve mature in their throat (if I remember correctly). I find lakes that are shallow with lots of weeds have more worms (warmer water I guess).
I do find Muskrat very bad for worms though. The bass are infested with them.
Here is a very short and to the point explanation
http://www.michigan.gov/dnr/0,1607,7-15 ... --,00.html
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Thx for the explanation (gross! 
) guys -- esp. Fatluke for the informative link. I had no idea how these "grubs" got passed around. Apparently, they are true parasites and need host species to survive. Even this nature freak finds them pretty disgusting. You've got to wonder what their contribution is to the natural cycle of life. It's a good thing that they die quickly unless they find the specialized situation they require to develop... or else it could really be a nightmare.
Didn't mean to hijack the nice report, but was curious. Back to fishing...
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) guys -- esp. Fatluke for the informative link. I had no idea how these "grubs" got passed around. Apparently, they are true parasites and need host species to survive. Even this nature freak finds them pretty disgusting. You've got to wonder what their contribution is to the natural cycle of life. It's a good thing that they die quickly unless they find the specialized situation they require to develop... or else it could really be a nightmare.Didn't mean to hijack the nice report, but was curious. Back to fishing...
W.