Can I Feed My Fish These?

[Dorkhedeos]

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[Synirr]

Have you ever stuck your finger into a box of maggots, just to feel what its like, and had one hanging onto your skin? I do it all the time. Most maggots have little black things on the point of their heads.
If you squeeze them, it comes out and you can feel it. It feels like a really tiny peice of metal just brushing on your finger. This would take a maggot sometime to chew through the stomache of a fish but its happened in the lake I fish in once or twice.

This hook is used by the maggot for gripping and pulling itself along. As I said, the maggots in question cannot eat live flesh. Moreover, maggots don't bite or chew at all, but secrete digestive enzymes that break down dead tissue and liquefy it for ingestion. These enzymes are harmless to living tissue. In other words, if you caught a fish and find that it has a hole in its stomach, chances are far greater this was caused by your hook and not the maggot.