Photo: Tom B. plugs a Holgate sunset.
Decently painful. That’s how I describe the poisonous four-fang bite of a larger bloodworm, the size we use for bass bait.
I’m most familiar with this polychaete’s bite based on the smaller bloodworms I dig locally – and have allowed to bite me in an educational vein. Hey, these worms bear the world’s most advanced fangs, made of copper. Who wouldn’t want to know how they feel?
The bloodworm’s nightmarish fangs are formed, quite complexly, from copper drawn from highly mineralized bay bottom…
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