I've been checking out the traps being used and all of the videos are showing huge chunks of liver. I thought that to be quite wasteful. With the price of liver you might as well just buy the leeches. I'm looking for a cheap way to get them.
@@ultranitro437 I would say that the idea is to catch as much as possible so you don't have to use a lot of liver / meat. It's wasteful. Get as much as you can and then you can always let the ones you don't use go back for another day.
Sask Guy Outdoors, ok thanks. The reason why I ask is, that we have european catfish in a few waters (Denmark) and I have often thought of giving leeches a go, but the Brits, who have way more european catfish venues, says that horse-leeches (most common in Denmark) are no good as bait.
@@ole7146 horse leeches are usually very soft compared to the ribbon leeches a.k.a. Nephelopsis obscura. The ribbon leech is very muscular and does not have physically defined perpendicular lines/ridges. If it does, it will usually be very faint and non existant on the belly. Ribbon leeches are smooth and about as hard as grapes. One good way to tell also if to put the leeches in a container without a lid and if they can climb their way out then it is either a horse leech or another related bloosucker. Bloodsuckers and horse leeches have two suckers that are the same size whereas a ribbon will have one big and one very small which is the mouth. Ribbon leeches are scavenger very similar to earthworms while horse leeches are predators.
Grow up and understand life. I get preservation and not over harvesting but people need to live. What do you do? Sit around waiting for people to take care of you?
