[NatureNS] leeches

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Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2013 06:41:35 -0300
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As far as I know L Torment does not have Bass in it- not knowingly
stocked anyway.

But I am starting to think there are no lakes w/o these fish. The lake
is part of a river system- do they migrate along water courses?

Angela mentioned pickerel also being leech predators. I am quite
confident we do not yet have those fish.

Nancy

On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 8:02 PM, Mary Macaulay <marymacaulay@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Have you got small mouth bass in your lake? We used to have the large leeches at our lake too until the small mouth bass arrived and ate them all.
>
> Mary
>
> On 2013-08-21, at 1:21 PM, "nancy dowd" <nancypdowd@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Have people been noticing many of the big black leeches that inhabit
>> our lakes? (Sorry I do not know the proper name.)
>>
>> For about the past 10 years I have noticed roughly the same numbers of
>> these +/-10cm leeches in the shallow water near shore on L Torment,
>> Kings Co- not a lot but definitely present. 35 or so yrs ago we kept a
>> box of salt by the beach b/c we often ended up with large or small
>> ones attached to us. And they were an everyday sighting.
>>
>> This year I have seen none.
>>
>> Nancy

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