Gil Levesque Posted July 21, 2020 Report Share Posted July 21, 2020 Caught this walleye today on lake erie. Part of a nice limit of six! It had these things on all its fins! Looked to me like maybe lamprey larvae! Any guesses? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gil Levesque Posted July 21, 2020 Author Report Share Posted July 21, 2020 They were attached by a ...sucker like a leech and there was blood around the area!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wkrp Posted July 22, 2020 Report Share Posted July 22, 2020 Trump Lumps. No question about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kickingfrog Posted July 22, 2020 Report Share Posted July 22, 2020 Definitely not anything lamprey related. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sauce Posted July 22, 2020 Report Share Posted July 22, 2020 Leeches. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akaShag Posted July 22, 2020 Report Share Posted July 22, 2020 They look like leeches to me, but I have never seen them on a fish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phishfearme Posted August 7, 2020 Report Share Posted August 7, 2020 see the following thread and link to wiki: https://www.walleyecentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=630418 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhynchobdellida Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dave524 Posted August 7, 2020 Report Share Posted August 7, 2020 Surprised to see them on a open water Erie fish, I would have thought you would more likely encounter them on say a resident Grand River fish or some other soft bottom. weedy, warm body of water. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sauce Posted August 8, 2020 Report Share Posted August 8, 2020 7 hours ago, dave524 said: Surprised to see them on a open water Erie fish, I would have thought you would more likely encounter them on say a resident Grand River fish or some other soft bottom. weedy, warm body of water. My observations show that it's actually the opposite in southwestern Ontario. I catch walleye with leeches on them at the end of the season in March. I have never caught a walleye with a leech on it in the summer. I've found leeches on my waders after trout fishing in April. Never happened in the summer on the same river. There's a certain trout stream I won't fish without waders. The strain of leeches there find you fast. Leeches like cold water. I'm pretty sure they seek it out, along with blood! I think the OP's fish came from deep water way below the thermocline. Probably very close to bottom. And probably not very far from a depth change and some significant weed growth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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