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Fishing Forums => Species Specific Boards => Walleye/Sauger/Perch => Topic started by: dakids on July 07/10/16, 08:29:57 PM

Title: What are these?
Post by: dakids on July 07/10/16, 08:29:57 PM

Caught a few walleyes on Leechlake that had these worms in there mouths.  What are they?

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Title: Re: What are these?
Post by: corny13 on July 07/10/16, 09:06:35 PM

A bunch of Blood sucking Leeches...not good I've seen a lot more like that this year also...

Title: Re: What are these?
Post by: dakids on July 07/10/16, 09:27:05 PM

That's what I thought.   Thanks.

Title: Re: What are these?
Post by: The General on July 07/12/16, 03:20:09 PM

Curious.  Why is that not a good thing?  Do they kill the fish?

Title: Re: What are these?
Post by: corny13 on July 07/12/16, 05:46:33 PM

Blood sucking leeches are like blood sucking ticks a few won't hurt a fish or a deer but a BUNCH...compare that walleye to us that would be like having a pound of leeches stuck on us sucking blood...yep not good you would get anemic weak get eaten by something bigger or just plain die. Leech spit acts like coumadin the blood thinner, that many leeches could cause a problem. I haven't heard of biologists saying this is bad yet but kinda a no brainer when there are that many sucking on one fish. Those walleyes are not eating those little leeches they are being parasitised by them.