I finished about 3/4 of my steelhead dinner tonight. Decided that I was done after finding a worm in the meat. The fish was caught in the Tucannon River Monday.

I have found worms in my steelhead before, but only in fish from the Tucannon. I've probably kept around 75 steelhead from other rivers abd have never noticed a worm in any of those. I'd just like to know if wormy steelhead are a Tucannon River thing, or if others have caught wormy steelhead on other rivers.

My guess is that the worms get into the fish in the ocean. I have found the worms in both the meat and the body cavity. The worms aren't very big, but they sure gross me out!