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leaches - lonehunter - 07-02-2004
now i was just wondering how many different leaches everyone has to fish with .
i've seen the soft bodyed small 2" black ones , the 2" "watermellon green " ones and the big 3" to 4" cole black ones with the red underbelly .
i've also used the hardshelled "watermellon green " leaches i get off of snappingturtles . they last a good long time by the way .
i coulda swore i saw a black leach with a yellow underbelly in my younger years , but i'm not totally certin of that , too many winters have gone past for a definate "i did see one " .
what kinda leaches you got in your neck of the woods , uh , besides in-laws and no good friends your gal don't want you hanging around with anymore , lol !
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Re: [lonehunter] leaches - JapanRon - 07-02-2004
Hey there lonehunter,
I fished with ralph and that sucker had no rival. At the end of the trip he wouldn't split the gas or live bait, the breakfast was seperate and I drove 20 miles out of my way to pick him up (from under his rock).
Biggest leach I ever fished with!
JapanRon
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Re: [lonehunter] leaches - daymere - 07-08-2004
black and green for me and a few like the one ron had but tied him to the anchorfor more weight.
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Re: [daymere] leaches - lonehunter - 07-14-2004
same here too . everyone gets a guy like that . never does he pull out the wallet to split any expence the trip has with it .
now i don't mind doing that kinda stuff if the guys on hard times , but the only hard times that guy had was pushing his face outta the camper food supply while i was doing the fishing .
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Re: [lonehunter] leaches - rjf385 - 08-01-2004
i have never used leeches. do they work good and what kind of fish go for leeches?! since, i never knew so i thought i would ask.
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Re: [rjf385] leaches - lonehunter - 08-01-2004
this is my first summer using them so i'm no expert on them , but i can tell you this . i've cought a ton of bass on them , plenty of rock bass , a couple big channel cats , a steelhead , and at the small dam i've been fishing for the last 5 years , walleye !
in those five years at the wiggins dam i've never hauled in a walleye before . lures , worms and minnows have never brought one in for me . first leach i put on netted me three marble eyes in a row .
it has taken me some time to get used to using them thou , yuck !
the fish love them which is what sparked my curosity about the slimey critters . i try them at every new place i visit , usually letting them bounce along the bottom on a steelhead set up . it seems to produce the best results .
i'de say you should give it a try at your dam and see what happens . i run a single size 8 hook thru the mouth (pointey end of the thing, not the suction cup end ) .my lead line is about 2 feet or better and for a weight i use a small bell sinker or some split-shot .
i started using a pair of hemostats to get them out of the cup but a needle-nose plires will do the same thing . i'm getting braver with the critters and can now reach in and pick one out , but that has taken some time to get used to .
they do outpreform the worms and last a heck of a lot longer . i've cought 16 fish on one leach alone . thats streaching your bait money a long way .
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