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missmolly
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The Great Outdoors: "missmolly: "Selfsuffi: "Thank you TGO!"
Yeah, thanks, Jim. How's retirement going? "
Absolutely fantastic missmolly, thanks for asking. With no particular place to go, and the rest of my life to get there allows me to be the "Ultimate Vegetable"!!! :)"
Woo-hoo! I'm retiring in increments. 17 years ago, I quit the 9-5, which was more like 7-9. A couple years ago, I quit road trips. In another 3.5 years, I hope to quit the last of it.
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inspector13
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Have you ever seen what happens when you pick up a Hagfish?
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missmolly
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Selfsuffi: "I don't know why but that does make me think. I grew up hooking through the sucker. I have a friend that hooks through the opposite tail end. I was taught that through the sucker will not tear off the hook as easy on a light tail bite. I have no idea if that is accurate or not. Where are you hooking your leech?
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Through the sucker.
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WalleyeHunter24
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The other end of the Leech is the head, so piercing that part of the leeches body can lead to it's demise and swimming ability.
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Savage Voyageur
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Jackfish: " If you had a sharp hook stuck through you and were thrown into the lake as bait for something much larger than you, you would excrete something slimy and gelatinous, too. :)"
Im too slow at the keyboard today, my exact thoughts.
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missmolly
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Selfsuffi: "Thank you TGO!"
Yeah, thanks, Jim. How's retirement going?
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Kawishiwashy
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OMG, happens to me all the time and usually just out of the blue. I imagine that the leech has just seen the world's largest walleye come within a fraction of a millimeter of ending its life and in self defense, rolls into a rock hard ball so tightly that its insides seep out onto its outsides. No other logical explanation for it.
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missmolly
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All this chatting about leeches has me remembering the occasional leech that wraps itself tightly around the shaft of my hook and then secretes a slime, a gelatinous cocoon. Does anyone know why a leech does that?
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BearRaid
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missmolly: "The Great Outdoors: "missmolly: "Selfsuffi: "Thank you TGO!"
Yeah, thanks, Jim. How's retirement going? "
Absolutely fantastic missmolly, thanks for asking. With no particular place to go, and the rest of my life to get there allows me to be the "Ultimate Vegetable"!!! :)"
Woo-hoo! I'm retiring in increments. 17 years ago, I quit the 9-5, which was more like 7-9. A couple years ago, I quit road trips. In another 3.5 years, I hope to quit the last of it. "
We are on the same schedule missmolly. I have 3 years 6 months and 2 days to go.(but who is counting :) ). Looking forward to more fishing time then!
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overthehill
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SweetBerryWine: "Leeches used to do this to me and it was because I was double hooking them. Now, I only hook the leach once, 1/4" below the sucker. My leech balling-up problem has halted in its entirety. "
+1. You must be using the big ones with the yellow stripe! :)
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The Great Outdoors
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Wish you luck, and a long and happy retirement when you bail out of the job market!! :)
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Jackfish
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If you had a sharp hook stuck through you and were thrown into the lake as bait for something much larger than you, you would excrete something slimy and gelatinous, too. :)
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The Great Outdoors
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missmolly: "Selfsuffi: "I don't know why but that does make me think. I grew up hooking through the sucker. I have a friend that hooks through the opposite tail end. I was taught that through the sucker will not tear off the hook as easy on a light tail bite. I have no idea if that is accurate or not. Where are you hooking your leech?
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Through the sucker. "
Hook it about 1/8th inch BELOW the sucker, as the sucker is very flimsy and the hook can easily pull out if hooked through the middle of it.
As far as the Leech balling on your hook, it will occasionally but all you need to do is hold the leech and hook barely in the water near the boat for about 30 seconds, and the Leech will usually straighten itself out & try to swim away.
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SweetBerryWine
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Leeches used to do this to me and it was because I was double hooking them. Now, I only hook the leach once, 1/4" below the sucker. My leech balling-up problem has halted in its entirety.
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missmolly
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SweetBerryWine: "Leeches used to do this to me and it was because I was double hooking them. Now, I only hook the leach once, 1/4" below the sucker. My leech balling-up problem has halted in its entirety. "
Hmmm. I single hook them and it still happens to me, maybe one in a hundred.
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The Great Outdoors
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missmolly: "Selfsuffi: "Thank you TGO!"
Yeah, thanks, Jim. How's retirement going? "
Absolutely fantastic missmolly, thanks for asking. With no particular place to go, and the rest of my life to get there allows me to be the "Ultimate Vegetable"!!! :)
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Selfsuffi
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I don't know why but that does make me think. I grew up hooking through the sucker. I have a friend that hooks through the opposite tail end. I was taught that through the sucker will not tear off the hook as easy on a light tail bite. I have no idea if that is accurate or not. Where are you hooking your leech?
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Selfsuffi
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The Great Outdoors: "missmolly: "Selfsuffi: "I don't know why but that does make me think. I grew up hooking through the sucker. I have a friend that hooks through the opposite tail end. I was taught that through the sucker will not tear off the hook as easy on a light tail bite. I have no idea if that is accurate or not. Where are you hooking your leech?"
Through the sucker. "
Hook it about 1/8th inch BELOW the sucker, as the sucker is very flimsy and the hook can easily pull out if hooked through the middle of it.
As far as the leech balling on your hook, it will occasionally, but all you need to do is hold the leech and hook barely in the water near the boat for about 30 seconds, and the leech will usually straighten itself out and try to swim away."
Thank you TGO!
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missmolly
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Thanks, Jim.
The fish can coast for the next three years and change, Dave. Then I pity the fool fish that swims under our canoes!
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CityFisher74
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Perhaps the leech is attracted to you?
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