Leeches can be kept for many weeks in cold water. That is why you buy them in refrigerated containers. Water temperatures between 35 to 40 degrees are ideal. After buying your leeches, most people put ...

LAKE MILLE LACS East: Live-bait rigs or spinner rigs tipped with crawlers and leeches continue to produce walleyes during the morning and afternoon hours on the deep gravel and mud. At night, slip ...

Chad Boyce inched the hunter-green johnboat along the shoreline of a Back Bay creek. A pair of spider-like arms on the vessel’s bow held wires that dipped into the water. He flipped a switch and ...

Certain squeamish types may insist that the concept of fishing does not include a duel with blood-sucking leeches. But, of course, they don`t catch nearly as much fish as those who come to grips, so ...

WALKER, Minn. — Minnesota's third-largest lake has a namesake only an angler could love: the leech. Earthworm's ugly aquatic cousin. Those slimy, crawly creatures straight out of a horror film. But ...

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Two weekends ago, Mary Zuniga took her five young children to the swimming area of Lake Tyler East, while she went fishing nearby. Zuniga said. "And as I walked out, I could see that my legs were ...