Leach Suicide

[towman]

When fishing leaches on a Lindy Rig have had a problem with them getting wraped up in a ball around the hook and line.

Any sugestions????????

[Juls_WI]

They are either very cold or your hooking them just below the big sucker. I have found if I miss the sucker and hook them just below it they tend to freak out on me and do just what you said. If it is just cold, I just press it (lightly) in my hands for a minute or so to warm it up and it would then relax and behave.

If neither of these suggestions work, then you just have some very smart leeches..heheh

Juls

[kari]

Hold them in your hand or rub their bellies! They like it a lot. It may sound weird but it really gets them movin'.

[Hawgeye]

I know most people like to hook them in the sucker end but I prefer the opposite end. They don't tend to ball up for me and they still catch fish, I think even more fish....

[Dave S]

I recently read that the head of the ribbon leeches in on the end opposite the "sucker" end. They always ball up on me when I hook them in the sucker also. Perhaps one should be hooking them in the "head" end on the end opposite the sucker.

[John in MN]

When I'm rigging, I hook the leech in the head (small) end. Since it is being pulled through the water, it looks like it is swimming head first. I have yet to see a leech swim backwards, heheh. This is not to say that hooking the leech in the sucker end is wrong!! However, when I'm slip bobbering, I hook the leech in the sucker end so it can swim around better without the weight of the hook in its head.

[GullGuide]

I have often wonderd about that myself...Why do we all hook a leech backwards? You are right, I have never seen a leech swim in nature the way that we hook them. I think I will start hooking them from the head end and see if it makes any difference as far as catching fish goes. I will of course have a leech rigged in the traditional manner to see if there truly is a difference. Good observation!
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[paul]

I don't know why, but i have always hooked the leach behind the sucker and don't have a PROBLEM.

[paul]

The point to hooking by the sucker when rigging is that the leach will have more movement. Don't drowned your leeches

[AquaMan]

Drop a leech into a bucket of water and watch how it swims. The small end always leads and the sucker end follows. By running the hook through the sucker end you are dragging the leech backwards if you are trolling. Turn it around and try it. I do hook them through the sucker when bobber fishing, however.

AquaMan~~~~~~~~~~~~~

.·´¯° --- "It all begins and ends at the water's edge"

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[Hawghunter]

i tried hooking the leaches in the back end of the leach or the head and i caught walleyes last night using it