None have gotten me so far (knock on wood) but I've seen a few in the stream that I've been visiting.
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Posted 22 June 2007 - 01:32 PM
I've seen a bunch of them lately and I dunno whether they bite or not but I'd rather not come home with a bunch stuck to me. I usually just wear water shoes and roll up my pants when I'm wading, so what can I do to keep myself from being ''attacked?'' None have gotten me so far (knock on wood) but I've seen a few in the stream that I've been visiting.
None have gotten me so far (knock on wood) but I've seen a few in the stream that I've been visiting.
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Posted 22 June 2007 - 03:29 PM
I don't worry about it. If I pick up a leech or two I still have plenty of blood left! Usually they dry up and drop off. Now, if it's one of those deals like in the movie "Stand By Me", well, I wouldn't be interested in volunteering for such an experience.
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Posted 22 June 2007 - 04:37 PM
It's not animals like leeches, but rather the mud and random crapola embedded in it, along with the Spartina grasses which can irritate if not cut your skin. Leeches are easy, you just yank them off when you leave the water.
Maybe we should start a separate thread about odd snake encounters in the water.
Maybe we should start a separate thread about odd snake encounters in the water.
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Posted 22 June 2007 - 07:12 PM
Maybe I'm just weird....(OK I know I am) but I rather like finding a few new leeches for the collection from time to time on my ankles 
...Long pants tucked into some boots or high wall wading shoes works very well to avoid this.
...Long pants tucked into some boots or high wall wading shoes works very well to avoid this.I would love to hear some of these...I have some pretty good ones myself...But then like the Leeches I seek those out alsoMaybe we should start a separate thread about odd snake encounters in the water.
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Posted 13 August 2007 - 05:44 PM
leeches...
i get them a little too often while snorkeling. they really seem to like back water areas and now i can almost always predict where and when i will get into them.
harmless... well i guess so, but they leave a nasty welp on me for a week or even two. hard and oozy and itches like crazy for about a week.
you can scratch them off or grab a salt shaker which was the case once while sitting in a restaurant after snorkeling the conasauga. freaked my wife and her friend out while we ate cheeseburgers. another time i was wearing my shorty and was covered from the knees and elbows out with hundreds of tiny leeches. they were starting to get under my fingernails. i freaked and started clawing and rubbing everywhere but i dont recall that instance making any kind of skin reaction. maybe i got them off quick enough. its a good reason to wear a fullbody suit. yesterday i was just wearing swim shots and got an itch, sure enough one was a wee bit to close to a place i would prefer it not to be.
i dont like them but i dont think they do anything like lyms disease or rocky mountain tick fever. just a nasty mark and memory.
some leeches look pretty cool... take a close look at them. sometimes their bodies will be swarming with babies. i dont see them on fish often but turtles yes.
cool and scarry b-movie... attack of the giant leeches, roger corman 1960.
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i get them a little too often while snorkeling. they really seem to like back water areas and now i can almost always predict where and when i will get into them.
harmless... well i guess so, but they leave a nasty welp on me for a week or even two. hard and oozy and itches like crazy for about a week.
you can scratch them off or grab a salt shaker which was the case once while sitting in a restaurant after snorkeling the conasauga. freaked my wife and her friend out while we ate cheeseburgers. another time i was wearing my shorty and was covered from the knees and elbows out with hundreds of tiny leeches. they were starting to get under my fingernails. i freaked and started clawing and rubbing everywhere but i dont recall that instance making any kind of skin reaction. maybe i got them off quick enough. its a good reason to wear a fullbody suit. yesterday i was just wearing swim shots and got an itch, sure enough one was a wee bit to close to a place i would prefer it not to be.
i dont like them but i dont think they do anything like lyms disease or rocky mountain tick fever. just a nasty mark and memory.
some leeches look pretty cool... take a close look at them. sometimes their bodies will be swarming with babies. i dont see them on fish often but turtles yes.
cool and scarry b-movie... attack of the giant leeches, roger corman 1960.
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Posted 13 August 2007 - 06:15 PM
If there where snakes here I would look for them.I've always though of leeches as part of the hobby and something that you ought not worry about. Besides they seem to be a pretty clean parasite. As far as snakes go, I also actively look for them.
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