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imal<br clear=3D"n <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head> <meta content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"/> </head><body style=""> <div> Sure looks like a leech to me Burkhard! </div> <div> No doubt very life like imitations have hit the market but </div> <div> none of them are alive. </div> <div> I don't know about how many different species of leech are in our waters </div> <div> but several I suspect. Never saw a book on the subject - just how to fish them. </div> <div> Often when we used to clean trout for supper we would find small leech in them </div> <div> not the big 5 cm kind seen in the water. It may be this was a mature individual </div> <div> of a smaller species. </div> <div> An interesting subject - I must read Thom Green's article again. </div> <div> Enjoy the early autumn! </div> <div> Paul </div> <div>   </div> <div>   </div> <blockquote style="padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 0px; border-left-color: blue; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; position: relative;" type="cite"> On September 25, 2015 at 6:11 PM Burkhard Plache <burkhardplache@gmail.com> wrote: <br/> <br/> <div dir="ltr"> <div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="gmail_default"> The critter was certainly alive and well, not a plastic imitation. </div> <div class="gmail_extra"> <br/> <div class="gmail_quote"> On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 12:11 AM, Ian Manning <span><ianmanning4@gmail.com></span> wrote: <br/> <blockquote style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex; border-left-color: #cccccc; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid;"> <div dir="auto"> <div> A little tough to say from the photo, but it looks to me like an plastic poppyseed leech aka a "powerbait". Commonly used for small mouth bass fishing. The only thing that's throwing me off is the stuck to your foot part.   </div> <div>   </div> <div> Otherwise, I guess it could be the type of leech the lure is meant to imitate. However that would be a new critter to me.  </div> <div>   </div> <div> Best, </div> <div> Ian </div> <div> <div class="h5"> <div>   </div> <div> <br/>On Sep 24, 2015, at 10:03 PM, Burkhard Plache < burkhardplache@gmail.com> wrote: <br/> <br/> </div> <blockquote type="cite"> <div> <div dir="ltr"> <div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> After a swim in a muddy lake, </div> <div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> a tiny (1 mm thin, 5 mm long) sucking animal </div> <div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> had attached itself to my foot. It was easy to pull off. </div> <div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> Does anybody have an idea what I collected? </div> <div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> <br/> https://www.dropbox.com/s/k5nwurwunn2bkil/H1390501.JPG?dl=0 <br/> <br/> </div> <div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> Thanks for any input, </div> <div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> Burkhard </div> <div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">   </div> </div> </div> </blockquote> </div> </div> </div> </blockquote> </div> </div> </div> </blockquote> <div> <br/>  </div> </body></html>
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