Mystery worm

[Robja]

Saturday I did a little bottom fishing in 80 ft of water. When I was cleaning one of the back sea bass i pulled this worm looking thing out of his stomach. Looks like it may have had some hairy feelers on the sides and it wasn't round but kinda flat. Does anyone know what it could be?

[Finesse]

Maybe a Bristleworm also known as Fireworm ??
They can sting and get rather large (for worms ) They are flat and have bristles on their sides.

Here is a picture I took of one, not the best but you get the idea

That could not have felt good going down if this is what that fish swallowed

[Nauti Natured]

Looks like a regular old sand-worm to me. We used to use them for Flounder bait when I was a kid.

http://www.umainetoday.umaine.edu/Issues/v6i3/bait.html


(Dont know about the Marlin comment in this article though)

[JMS-ILM]

polychaete worm.....very likely you might have dissected one or another of these in a college bio lab....i know i hacked up a few of them in the past.

[WAHOONBOX]

CAN YOU IMAGINE ONE OF THESE CRITTERS CRAWLING OUT OF YOUR.................................................UH RIGGIN BUCKET?

[clt_capt]

Isn't that the thing that crawled out of the guy's brain in "Wrath of Kahn"???