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    Ploychaetes
    During the spring and fall the ploychaetes come to visit in the thousands. Now, you can go and search the web to find out all about the scientific make up of these Turner’s Creek Worms. So I will not bore you with such detail I will only share with you all that I personally know about the strange looking marine creatures.



    Here’s a picture that I took when the worms aka ploychaetes were out in droves! On this particular early morning there were so thick around my dock that it basically looked as though you could walk on top of them. When they are this thick it kind of makes my skin crawl! And With good reason too! Back some 55 years ago, as a child at the age of 10, my young friends loved to play in the mud. Now I am not talking about walking around in it I am talking about smearing it all over myself. To perform this act, I basically had to lie down and roll around in it. The goal was to completely cover ourselves so that we could lay in the mud basically unseen. Then as soon as someone road by in their boat we would jump up and give them the scare of their life. After all we did at first glance we did look like the marsh monsters that maybe a few horror stories were based on. Sometimes this scare tactic would work and of course after the first scare we got a few words directed to us! We still laughed and thought it was the funniest thing ever. So after we got tired of rolling around in the mud and trying to scare boaters we would swim over to the dock and spray ourselves clean. Never did I once see these worms and little did I know, but they were there doormat in the mud.
    The stick test!
    If you were to stick your arm down in these worms they would seemly latch on to your skin. They are covered with sticky mucus or basically they just are a member of the leech family. I tried this one time and I will not be doing it again! They normally come out during the darkest part of the night during a new moon stage. The months that they normally happens is sometimes in April and then again in October/November. As the dawn approaches they make way back down under. However, during the day time hours you can see them scattered swimming about from the creek all the way into the ocean. I am always stopping to show them to our customers. I know they don’t get it, at least until I show them the group picture!
    I remember this one day where I sat at my dock and watched as fish from down under ate one worm after another. When this pheromone happens I always get calls from fishermen wondering what the heck is going on! It is hard to explain how thick these worms can get on the surface. So I always offer to send them a photo or two. And the fishermen always say…you know I had trouble catching fish today…do you think they were full of these worms…my answer is most always the same, “most likely!”
    After a little checking I do believe that the ploychaetes are cousins of the lug worm. However, once again I am not basing this on any scientific data. At this point I am only going by my stored data of many years of playing the mud and observing for the last 50 years the ways of these worms. So let’s just say, “This is what I think I know about them!”

    Ploychaetes in the sound!


    It is amazing at the different shapes they can take when they are swimming about in the day light hours. Here’s one that happened by my boat while I was anchored in the sound by Cabbage Island.


    Here are two close up pictures that I took of them when I first removed them from the water. As you can see it is not clear which end is the head or the tail. They can swim in all directions and they basically seem to know what they are doing. When they are thick on the surface there is so many that they occupy to a water depth of about two feet. When this happens when I crank my boat up the exhaust is full and as soon as the engine started, if you are docked behind me, worms be a flying. My salt water intake strainer becomes full of worms parts and is in bad need of cleaning out. My friend this is not something I wish on anyone. After a few days the old worm parts do start smelling and it is not too appealing!

    Thanks for reading! Captain Judy



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    Swirley Bird King!Bill Vanderford has won numerous awards for his writing and photography, and has been inducted into the National Freshwater Fishing Hall of Fame as a Legendary Guide. He can be reached at 770-289-1543, at JFish51@aol.com, or at his web site: www.georgiafishing.com