On Mon, 22 Mar 2004 04:49:28 GMT, "Hooked" wrote:

"George Cleveland" wrote in message
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Here's a link to the native lampreys in Wisconsin.

http://www.seagrant.umn.edu/seiche/mar.02/art03.html


The Koch's Lamprey is a local tie. Simple to make. It has a 3" zonker
type tail tied over a matching dubbed body. At the front of the hook
you tie in a pair of lead dumbell eyes. Tand then dub in a band of red
right behind them to represent the gills. The zonker strip is tied at
the front of the hook and then pulled over the dubbed body and
attached again where the hook bend starts.

Thanks George. I never would have known about these critters 'till you
mentioned it.

Still haven't seen any. Probably never will either. But now that I know they
exist, I'll be able to keep an eye open for them.

If you look, I bet you'll see them. They're pretty common in the upper
midwest The first time I saw them was when I was a kid. I grew up on a
farm on the Black river in central Wisconsin and spent as much time
fishing and hunting as was possible. One day in the summer I was
wading down stream and saw what a thought was a shredded rag caught on
someting on the bottom (Today I'd assume it was a plastic garbage
bag.) On closer exmination it turned out to be a swarm of small
lampreys. They cluster together when they spawn. It yucked me out at
the time in extremis. By the way, they die after spawning and the
Lamprey fly does not work nearly as well after the middle of July.


g.c.