Fat n Sassy Leech Bedding

[Corey]

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Some things are just good to know about...

Corey Milner
Creative Director, Indigo Rose Software

[Brett]

I fished leeches on jigs for walleye in Ontario once... it was hard getting them onto the hook because they would keep attaching to your finger. After a while you learned that the secret was to let them attach to your thumbnail and then peel em' off to hook them.

[Lorne]

Ah, leeches. While canoeing down the Rat River...which anyone who knows the Rat River would tell you does not actually deserve the title "River" but instead "Beaver-dam-infested creek"...I became all too familiar...dare I say even intimate with the stubborn tenacity of baby leeches.

Baby leeches, you see, are inevitably picked up in clusters of, oh, 40 or 50 or more, and are about 1 to 2 mm long...barely long enough to afford any purchase with which to remove them.

Worse still is the fact that, since they are so numerously attached, any attempt to remove them from one hand simply transfers them to the other, until you end up with both hands (and anything else you happen to brush against) covered with little black wrigglies. I remember them being particularly attracted to the skin between each finger.

What a day that was. My buddy Gates and I along with a girl who it turns out was very very brave regarding leeches but madly afraid of cows...which made it difficult when we needed to trek across a cattle-laden pasture in seek of a ride back to our camp because we had ended up in the middle of nowhere and it was now too dark to even see the beaver dams, much less portage across them. "Is that a cow?" "No, no, it's a bale of hay." "I think I heard a moo!"

I still remember the look on the farmer's face when we came up to his porch and announced that we were stranded in his pasture and that we had arrived via canoe. Neat old guy, gave us a ride back to our cabin with our canoe in the back (about a 40 minute trip)...he had stacks of Metallica CDs in his truck piled next to Stompin Tom and Johnny Cash.

[Corey]

My buddy Gates and I along with a girl who it turns out was very very brave regarding leeches but madly afraid of cows...

Yeah, if I had a nickel for every time I heard that old line... Johnny Knoxville's, "Abe Lincoln's Beard of Leeches" was not bad, he dressed up like Abe Lincoln and had a cupful of leeches attached to his face while he attempted to read that, "Four score and seven years ago..." document. Reasonably hilarious.

Remind me not to stir my soup with Brett's thumb anymore.

Corey Milner
Creative Director, Indigo Rose Software