Lamprey

[bradroy55]

I see lamprey scars/wounds on fish All the time, Just about every northern ive pulled up this year has had one (or More) nasty wounds  on it, just wondering if anyone ever pulls up fish with actual live lamprey on them?

[doug1460]

I've had lamprey come up out of the hole and into my shanty twice so far this winter.   

[bradroy55]

I've had lamprey come up out of the hole and into my shanty twice so far this winter.   

best thing to do is probably kill the rotton things and throw em to the birds

[whipplebuck]

I've had lamprey come up out of the hole and into my shanty twice so far this winter.   

do you mean the come off a fish and into the shanty  or they just swim on out of the hole to Suck your Blood if so time to start packing on the ice..

[razzledazzle]

I get them in the boat all the time in the summer.

Kill them!!! Do not let them back into the water alive!

[duckdownr]

I saw a muskrat pop out of a hole yesterday? That was a first....

[bradroy55]

I saw a muskrat pop out of a hole yesterday? That was a first....

i remember hearing about a place where otters would jump out of the holes to come eat your fish on the ice! maybe just a fisherman's tale but interesting nonetheless!

[tipuppppppppp]

MY FATHER SHOWED ME PICS OF A DAY WHEN HIS BUDDY CAUGHT A MUSKRAT.  ON A TIPUP!!!!!!.  HE SAID THEY DIDN'T KNOW WHAT TO DO WHEN THAT THING CAME THROUGH THE HOLE WITH THE HOOK HANGING FROM IT LIP. IT STARTED HISSING AT THEM.  DIDN'T KEEP IT THOUGH AS THEY ARE STRICTLY CATCH AND RELEASE.  I WISH  WAS THERE. IT WOULDA BEEN GREAT

[bradroy55]

MY FATHER SHOWED ME PICS OF A DAY WHEN HIS BUDDY CAUGHT A MUSKRAT.  ON A TIPUP!!!!!!.  HE SAID THEY DIDN'T KNOW WHAT TO DO WHEN THAT THING CAME THROUGH THE HOLE WITH THE HOOK HANGING FROM IT LIP. IT STARTED HISSING AT THEM.  DIDN'T KEEP IT THOUGH AS THEY ARE STRICTLY CATCH AND RELEASE.  I WISH  WAS THERE. IT WOULDA BEEN GREAT

HAHA, probably a good thing to release them. i hear they are a little greasy, and the fillets taste  like a mix between a bald eagle and a muskie! 

[freaknasty7]

ive always wondered what eagle tasted like 

[bradroy55]

ive always wondered what eagle tasted like 

a little like great horned owl and wolf from what ive been told 

[TRT]

No lampreys but if you fish in NEK you will be fighting off mink sooner or later. I
had run ins both in 08 and 09. We saw one last weekend but he stayed
on shore and left us alone..

[finlessbrown]

how big can they get in champlain? i know they can get up to 2 feet long in the great lakes.

[jkw]

they make good bait for large rainbows, char and burbot here in alaska.....ive come across small clearwater streams that were just filled with them....and watched the predator fish circling the deeper water, waiting for them. why kill them anyway? there an important part of the food chain, just like everything else.

[bradroy55]

they make good bait for large rainbows, char and burbot here in alaska.....ive come across small clearwater streams that were just filled with them....and watched the predator fish circling the deeper water, waiting for them. why kill them anyway? there an important part of the food chain, just like everything else.

In VT they are invasives that do no good at all!

[esoxmaster]

We have a video in our MA thread from a trip to champlain of a lamprey coming up on a pike...

[DyingBreed]

ive always wondered what eagle tasted like 

If smoked they taste like a cross between calf. condor and spotted owl!

[freaknasty7]

sounds delicious!

[bradroy55]

hahaha 

[Zorros shack]

Get a lamprey whack it on the ice to kill it we don't need them.