Ontario Shore Fishing Forum

For a few hours Sunday i fished a favourite swim....mike and michael and blair i showed you at the shoreline cleanup.
i was fishing for carp and alot of the carp had lamprey marks and one still had a lamprey attached.

Wow that's crazy. I never knew Lamprey latched onto Carp. I hate those damn things (the Lamprey not the Carp ).

Giuga10

(11-12-2012 08:53 PM)tangledline Wrote: [ -> ]i fished a favourite swim....mike and michael and blair i showed you at the shoreline cleanup.

A great reward for building clean-up karma .

Nice picture Dave!

Ken can study it in his quest to properly hook and catch a lamprey

(11-16-2012 09:08 AM)MichaelAngelo Wrote: [ -> ]Ken can study it in his quest to properly hook and catch a lamprey

Thank God I'm not the only one who wants to. I thought I was going crazy.

......... Or maybe I am?

Giuga10

(11-16-2012 04:40 PM)Giuga10 Wrote: [ -> ]

(11-16-2012 09:08 AM)MichaelAngelo Wrote: [ -> ]Ken can study it in his quest to properly hook and catch a lamprey

Thank God I'm not the only one who wants to. I thought I was going crazy.

......... Or maybe I am?

Giuga10

Yes, you're crazy.

Technically, I had already used a Silver Redhorse as my "bait" to "catch" a Sea Lamprey

Thinking about that occasion again, the lamprey was latched onto the dorsal fin of the Silver Redhorse, with a fresh lamprey wound, suggesting a very recent attachment...perhaps just minutes before I hooked the Silver Redhorse or while I was fighting the Redhorse. A lamprey that has attached for a while and actively feeding is usually found on the body itself.

So I'm sticking to that story.

I guess I can tried a hooked carp as "bait" at Dave's spot to try for another one.

How about getting a big, dead fish and sticking a bunch of hooks in it. Leave it in the water and odds may be in your favour such that a lamprey will get its mouth stuck on one of the hooks...

and there you have a fair-caught lamprey!

(11-19-2012 12:56 PM)MichaelAngelo Wrote: [ -> ]How about getting a big, dead fish and sticking a bunch of hooks in it. Leave it in the water and odds may be in your favour such that a lamprey will get its mouth stuck on one of the hooks...

and there you have a fair-caught lamprey!

Your method probably works better for Hagfish than Sea Lamprey

Dead fish has no blood for the Sea Lamprey to feed upon