Imagine fishing with this giant worm!!

Could you imagine going fishing with this worm on your hook? Imagine the fish it could catch??? I was surprised to see an earthworm this huge, and knowing it can get up to 9ft long is just freaky... Take a look at the pics and let me know what you think? Also, what do you think it tastes like? Chicken?

The Giant Gippsland earthworm averages 3 feet in length, but has been seen as long as 9 feet. It is native to the clay soil along streams in Victoria, Australia. The worms take 5 years to mature and live for about 10, surprisingly long for invertebrates. Unlike other types of worm, the Giant Gippsland rarely, if ever, comes to the surface, but its location can be detected by the audible gurgling that their bodies make as they slither through their labyrinthine burrows.

Now that's what I call survival food!!! hahaha

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reply to post by Lazarus Short


haha...that's exactly what I was going to post. That wasn't true actually I was going to put

"The sleeper must awaken!!"

But yeah, no interest in fishing with or touching that thing at all....gross.

Nowyouseeme
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haha...that's exactly what I was going to post. That wasn't true actually I was going to put

"The sleeper must awaken!!"

But yeah, no interest in fishing with or touching that thing at all....gross.

The best is when it rains and you see pavement, streets, sidewalks, etc. littered with earthworms, now imagine you lived in a place where you didn't have just the 1-2 inch worms but these 3-9 ft worms?? Its like a road bump if you drive over it...hahahaa

When I was young, I was tricked and got one of the smaller ones in my mouth and chewed on it.

A) It DOES NOT taste like chicken,

B) It's like fried brain, without the fried part. It tastes like chewing on your on tenderized snot.

C) Sorry for the mental image. You wanted your ignorance denied. It now is.

That is a scary worm... It must eat fishes...

reply to post by NowanKenubi


How did you grow so large on such food as that?

NowanKenubi
When I was young, I was tricked and got one of the smaller ones in my mouth and chewed on it.

A) It DOES NOT taste like chicken,

B) It's like fried brain, without the fried part. It tastes like chewing on your on tenderized snot.

C) Sorry for the mental image. You wanted your ignorance denied. It now is.

That is a scary worm... It must eat fishes...

edit on 12-12-2013 by NowanKenubi because: (no reason given)

LOL... It's funny, when you watch those survival shows, they always make it sound like worms don't taste that bad... I figured they would taste as bad as they look

I wouldn't want to fish with it, but it sure is cool!
I would love to see one in "real" life. And hold it.
I wonder if it has the slime, like nightcrawlers?

Lazarus : What? I didn't feed on them. lol And how do you know I'm now large? :O

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That said, never believe what is on tv! lol Easier to sell survivalism if you romance it a bit. It's like the doctor telling you it won't hurt...

jhn7537

its location can be detected by the audible gurgling that their bodies make as they slither through their labyrinthine burrows

Ok, great find but that just sounds so gross to me right now.
I haven't had lunch and stomach is growling

And today's specials are "Giant freaking worm, sauteed in garlic butter".....

reply to post by SLAYER69


yurgh. At least, the mental image I gave you involved boobs... eargh.

reply to post by NowanKenubi


Giant earthworm boobs?


Nah,

Just wait until you see the size of the birds....

reply to post by SLAYER69


In the present case, it would be more proper to talk of a "down under" kind of worm, looking more like the following.



Not boobs.

Glad these worms are in Australia.

In a survival situation do you believe you'd be able to consume that? Not the whole thing, but enough to help you get by...

I'd like to think I could, I just don't know if I'd be able to get pass the gross factor...

reply to post by jhn7537


I would probably die and it would feed on me. Not even prepared as a soup would I eat it.

Good bait for sharks tho.

PS: I just remembered seeing a worm like that that had been caught by a spider. The spider had eaten half of it. The sucked part looked like a tiny piece of bacon. Fried and salted, I might be tempted... lol

reply to post by Lazarus Short


Thank you for the Dune reference I was about to say it then I saw your post! lol you rock

reply to post by NowanKenubi


Lil bit of butter, some garlic, and a whollllle lot of booze. Then we'd be talking possibly edible, lol.

VoidWalker
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Thank you for the Dune reference I was about to say it then I saw your post! lol you rock

Thanks for the kind words! The worm turns...