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Old 08-03-2016, 09:51 PM
mstolte617 mstolte617 is offline
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Sitting at the dock and seeing these going wild. Caught one just to check it out. Any ideas? Sandworm?
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Old 08-03-2016, 10:31 PM
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Picture is a little blurry, but looks like a sandworm to me.
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Old 08-03-2016, 10:45 PM
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can't determine the size from the picture, but if you saw a lot of them swimming/swarming around, and it was in an area with a mud bottom, I would be inclined to say its a cinder worm, not a sandworm. I just thought cinder worm swarms were earlier in the year, but I might be wrong about that.. In any case, my guess is its a cinder worm.... bob
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Old 08-03-2016, 11:41 PM
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Bob- yes. Definitely Cinder worms. Thank you. And thank you google. They were everywhere at the marina. They caught my eye because how quickly they moved and looked like goldfish... How are they for bait? I see a few lures trying to mimic its look. I'm reading that stripers love them, much like sand worms. Always learning.

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Old 08-04-2016, 12:05 AM
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Bass candy
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Old 08-04-2016, 12:29 AM
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I suppose, if you could net a bunch of them with a fine mesh, they would be great bait for anything that eats sea worms, which is just about everything that swims in NJ/NY waters... bob
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