Curling Leeches

[Chuckles]

How do you hook a leech so that it won't curl around  the hook? Once behind the mouth or in the mouth and out the top or bottom? When ancored over a road bed and using a jig this is a problem.

[sbfpa_Mike]

Chuckles,  Hook the leech through the sucker and continue about half way through the body and out,  should keep the leech from curling.

[Pasquatch]

Also, give them time to acclimate to the water... saw it on tv, something called the Leech Tamer helps i guess

[livin4ice]

Pasquatch is correct.  Use lake water to keep your leaches in.  This will get them used to the temp and they won't curl as bad.  This is not scientific of course, but I find that if I hook them just behind the "sucker" (just on the edge) they don't curl as bad either.  The leach tamer is a mesh bag with velcro on the top.  You can put this in the livewell or over the side in a minnow bucket.  When we get leaches they come in a little clear plactic container.  I drain out the water and add lake water, put the lid on and toss the whole thing in the minnow bucket.  The container will float but it also keeps the leaches at the same temp as the water in the bucket.

[Polar]

If you put a small piece of latex tubing up on the shank this helps greatly.

[suskymusky]

If you put a small piece of latex tubing up on the shank this helps greatly.

This works for me

[Chuckles]

Polar............Thanks for the latex tubing tip.

Now I'll have to apply for a federal grant to see "Why leeches are latex sensitive."  LOL

[TJ]

Dont forget that when walleye fishing, walleye come up from behind, bump the leach & take it "after" it curls.