Another crazy weird fish thing...

[fishinhunter]

While fishing in the fall a few years ago i caught a nightmare. This was worse than anything ive ever seen in any horror/sci-fi flick. When i caught it the bass had some sort of long worm attached to his head. It was bigger than any nightcrawler...just to give u an idea of the size. It was as big around as a finger and 10 inches long and it was stuck to the top of the fishes head.

When i got it in the boat the worm/leach/alien predator thing detached, ran around my boat screaming like a banshee (the noise might actually have been me), and tried to eat my face off before i shot it dead with a .44 mag (no...i did not actually shoot this thing...it just makes for a better story to tell it like this).

Below are pics of the fish and the alien brain-sucking nightmare. I grabbed it by the tail and tossed it overboard, the whole time making faces and sounds one would normally associate with a fifth grade girl who just had a booger flicked on her.

As it turns out...I had just had my first "up close encounter" with a Lamprey. This thing had attached itself to the bass some time ago and was living off the fluids it sucked from it's host. When it detached you can clearly see the hole it had created to feed from.


weird bass by scarfam, on Flickr


Untitled by scarfam, on Flickr

[DockShootinJack]

Lampreys are mean looking creatures.

[fishinhunter]

Lampreys are mean looking creatures.

I do not EVER want to see another one on my boat.

[brucec]

I hope you killed it!!!!!!!!

[NIMROD]

Chestnut Lamprey , we see then on Crappie most springs.

[Rogrock]

Yup, that's a lamprey. I saw many of them on the Coho Salmon that would come up the Tawas River from Lake Huron in Michigan each spring.

[BoarBuster]

What good do they serve? If any!

[dannyr3_8]

yea those things suck