Re: A little different type of trapping Leeches
[Re: gibb]
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06/28/22 11:09 AM
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Lance Squires
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Thanks for posting. Here in northern Wisconsin, large leeches are selling for $40/pound as of last weekend. The sport shop owner said he was going to have to raise the price.
57 years trapping. It's who I am. Every day is still as exciting as it was when I was a kid but a little more work.
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Re: A little different type of trapping Leeches
[Re: BernieB.]
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06/28/22 12:46 PM
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corky
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I need a pound of jumbos. For some reason jumbos were hard to find this year. I catch my own and most were medium. I use folded over pie plates with the remains of filleted crappies for bait. I tried deer liver but had better luck with fish. I catch 300 every Spring in about 3 nights with a half dozen traps and they last me the whole season.
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Re: A little different type of trapping Leeches
[Re: Lance Squires]
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06/28/22 12:53 PM
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Trapper7
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Thanks for posting. Here in northern Wisconsin, large leeches are selling for $40/pound as of last weekend. The sport shop owner said he was going to have to raise the price. That's what I paid here too.
The difference between animals and humans is that animals would never let the dumbest ones lead the pack.
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Re: A little different type of trapping Leeches
[Re: gibb]
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06/28/22 11:41 PM
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Steven 49er
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Jim, thanks for the video. Guys have been using the accordian style traps here for 30 years or more. Used to get the aluminum from newspaper shops. You could read the old news and set traps lol.
"Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon". Milton Friedman.
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Re: A little different type of trapping Leeches
[Re: Steven 49er]
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06/28/22 11:47 PM
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grumley701
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Jim, thanks for the video. Guys have been using the accordian style traps here for 30 years or more. Used to get the aluminum from newspaper shops. You could read the old news and set traps lol.
Not much has changed in 30 years, still printing off of those aluminum sheets..
Pure Blood
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Re: A little different type of trapping Leeches
[Re: gibb]
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06/28/22 11:57 PM
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Boco
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Just walk around in the swamp for 10 minutes in your speedo,then pull them off your legs. Good video Jim.
Last edited by Boco; 06/28/22 11:58 PM.
Forget that fear of gravity-get a little savagery in your life.
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Re: A little different type of trapping Leeches
[Re: 330-Trapper]
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06/30/22 02:53 PM
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DiggerDale
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I remember using coffee cans when I was a young guy...I dint remember much how they were made I used coffee cans too, back in the day.... One of the ponds with the biggest leeches also had huge bloodsuckers.. The bloodsuckers looked pretty good so I tried them for bait. Walleyes would grab them and spit them out so fast and hard my line would go slack....
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