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Wahoo Parasites...

With these razor-toothed speedsters visiting the Solitary Coast for several months each summer, you may be interested to read about what what these really icky things that fall out of the gut of almost every wahoo you clean really are. Many fish have parasites of some kind or another, but few parasites are either exclusive to one variety of fish, or as widespread in the population of one species of fish as these things. . .
Julian Peperrel offers the following information that will possibly interest and disgust you at the same time.
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