Trapping Leeches and Catching Walleyes on them!

On today's episode of Wisconsin Fisherman I wanted to try another pond for leeches I was amazed at the result! We put chicken liver in the traps and had great results then we went fishing with them and caught some walleye!
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[@henryvansickel7522]

Fantastic seeing you you guys in the outdoors 👍

[@andrewcira]

That is awesome! That is a ton of leeches!!!! Love the enthusiasm, great video!

[@jbefishn325]

I don't know to be more surprised about the amount of leeches you got or the fact that you caught walleye in that spot. Never would have even thought to try for em right there! Just awesome!

[@lyinglowmovingslow]

I never thought I'd be watching someone get so excited about catching leeches, haha. Great job! I might give it a try sometime.

[@Wisconsin_Fisherman]

It’s the coolest for like a $20 investment I believe I had over 300 leeches this morning

[@rewadena4371]

Dude there's money to be made there. If he only knew how to make real traps, and what bait to use. That's a way of life on the rez. But this guy is clueless!

[@henryvansickel7522]

Young guys😎

[@michaelhutchison2754]

Man that shallow one was packed.

[@JustinHallowesOutdoors]

that us an awsome morning

[@kennylainhart7148]

Slick work 💪!!!

[@peterher3791]

I love the concept in these videos. Please do more of these!!!

[@robertkloes8615]

One of your best videos!!!!!!!

[@whitefishfanatics4363]

Awesome video!! Making it happen without ever heading to a bait shop. Love it

[@pywifishingandoutdoors]

I was freaked out about leeches when I was younger swimming in campground ponds. Haunted me ever since, fell on Tom Boley's channel and had to try spinner and float with leeches. Finally became confident touching them just his year. I was such a pssy used pliers, scissors, and a hooks without touching them lol. After the time wasted trying to get them on, I said fk it, stuck my hand in and, wow, saved me a bunch of time lol, harmless little buggers. They stick on and squirm around, pretty harmless if you're touching them to use for fishin. Gotta try trapping for them and save some $$$. Thanks for sharing!

[@echofoxtrot2.051]

Proud of you bro. It's not easy to get over stuff that you grew up fearing so cudos to you for doing that. :)

[@finsfeathersandbone2823]

I use a plastic folders coffee can cut holes in it. Add beef livers and a rock then put plastic cover back on tie some string and toss it out works fabulous 👍

[@Wisconsin_Fisherman]

Great tip!

[@dougwalton4831]

That is awesome

[@shoenee_1039]

Very cool sir this makes me want to try this next week when I'm home

[@shaunluker6371]

That is awsome! Going to need to try this myself. I go through alot of leaches myself fishing for walleyes and smallmouth

[@devindrawenek641]

Great video

[@arrowheadangler]

Awesome! We have been trying a little leech trapping lately, not super crazy. But will try again! We did the pie tin too!

[@rzambory2938]

great job !! thanks for the video.

[@Wisconsin_Fisherman]

Thanks for watching!

[@willcountymark356]

Great job brother. Don't get any better than that. 👍💯😉

[@rickmave7607]

Back in the day you would crimp the top of a coffee can together with fish entrails inside weighted down with a few stones. The leeches you want are the flesh eaters and not blood suckers. After bringing the can up you would let it sit awhile and the blood suckers would climb out and the ones you want would stay in the water. When we hook the leeches, we let the leech try to attach to our thumbnail to make it easier to get a good hook set.

[@zachburger7126]

That's awesome!! Glad your leech traps worked. That first time let ya down I'd say.

[@geoffwojnowski7942]

Wow, what a catch. Nice work. I guess you just have to find a body of water that has a bunch of them to catch a bunch of them lol

[@blake.everyday]

Solid video!

[@Wisconsin_Fisherman]

Thanks Blake!

[@bobandtrishjuggling]

Jasper loved this one! We've been catching 100% of our bait so far this season - gotta try leech hunting now.

[@robertst.germaine4184]

Pat gave you great info , another good tip is my partner and I zip tied car weights for tires to bottom of bag

[@Wisconsin_Fisherman]

Awesome!! Good tip! Thanks!

[@mattwaltenberg6722]

That is so awesome Kyle. I use to use a onion sack to catch leeches. Awesome video keep up the great work.

[@Wisconsin_Fisherman]

Thanks Matt maybe I’ll try that!

[@truthseeker5890]

Well, at least you found your spot in life... "The Leech Trapper." Good Walleye fisherman too! You are correct... at least $4.00 per dozen with many bait shops charging $5.00 and $6.00 per dozen. The worst I've come across was $8.00 per dozen for jumbos. He didn't get my money on that one; I walked out. You got yourself a new subscriber... subscribed!

[@Wisconsin_Fisherman]

You bet! Thanks hope you like all my other videos!

[@truthseeker5890]

@@Wisconsin_Fisherman Yes sir! 👍👍👍👍

[@loboyd691]

Here in ND leeches generally cost around 30-40 cents per leach. You probably would have saved $70.00 or so here! Cool as heck!

[@Wisconsin_Fisherman]

Oh you bet!

[@wolfmanmark6773]

truly unique video. I never knew you could catch these and fish with them. thanks so much

[@dice44]

That would be such good bass bait in my lake.. I’m so jealous

[@KVGFishing]

Great Video man! Keep up the great content! Just found your channel and will definitely be watching more!!

[@Wisconsin_Fisherman]

Thanks man!!

[@JasonDudley88]

Where are you in Wisconsin where you are fishing/trapping leeches? I am a Wisconsinite too

[@danschoemann2305]

Great job! I just paid $4.50 for a doz crawlers. Bait is through the roof, like everything else. You found the mother load pond for leeches! You will never have to buy them again. Bait store owners are shaking their fists!

[@jerryscray1789]

I watered the lawn today went out back 1 hour after it got dark picked me $9 worth

[@danschoemann2305]

@@jerryscray1789 yes! Time to go back to old school tactics. My Dad and I used to use a mild electrode and red cap lights to pick our fill. Many years ago.

[@gibbsadventures12]

Use rubber bands or paper binding clips to close your traps.

[@woodsandwater123]

Dang brother you're blessed to live in a place where you can catch walleye from a roadside culvert. Great video.... I'm totally jealous. Leeches are about 4.99 per dozen here in PA if you can even find them, so you made some money. I have a couple dozen in the fridge right now.

[@yanphuc]

Leeches are 10-15$ a dozen up here in canada lol.

[@Wisconsin_Fisherman]

Dang! You guys need to make some traps!

[@woodsandwater123]

@@yanphuc WHAT?!? Pretty sure our baitshop leeches all come from Canada.... That's insane

[@yanphuc]

@@woodsandwater123 For us here in canada very few are trapped in canada and are instead mostly imported from the usa. We don't have many natural ponds. We mostly have lakes or deep ponds that holds fish. The only few good leech ponds are well kept secrets and the only commercial scale trapping is done in states/provinces where they have bans on leeches and bait coming from out of states like ontario for example. I heard that Saskatchewan had very good leech populations but I have yet to hear anyone actually moving them from there. I have actually never been able to actually trap any ribbon leeches but thats probably because I've only trapped in ponds connected to our massive river here in montreal quebec. Contrary to popular beliefs, I actually do like to use mud/horse leeches for walleyes and I wish I could buy them here in canada because I havent caught any this year compared to last year. These jokers are as tough as rubber and I can easily catch like 5 walleyes on a single one whereas I'm lucky if a ribbon is anywhere to be found after reeling in a walleye and even so its always mangled. Horses do need some pretty special care if you want them to be effective and swim like a ribbon instead of just being a glob of snot. Also, always make sure that you sort your leeches when keeping them in bulk because mud leeches foul the water very very fast with their slime and also like to suck the blood off of the ribbons which is a reason why some are just randomly found dead in the tubs. With my reduced mobility the only water access I have that I can trap holds a lot of fish and a little bit of horses and tiger leeches.

[@echofoxtrot2.051]

@@yanphuc Really? That's a bummer. They shouldn't restrict your Leech access. Sorry about those crazy laws. If it's any consolation, we have wacko leaders here in the US too.

[@wisconsinhunter3108]

I use old coffee cans.... with holes cut out

[@sethpeake]

Google eye jigs for the win! #kalins

[@brookinsfishing]

How did you make those leech traps? What were those made out of?

[@paulnokio1199]

That's a super handy trick! Up here in the u.p leaches are not available after july

[@Wisconsin_Fisherman]

Mostly because the ponds get too hot

[@rewadena4371]

Godda catch em early and hold em.

[@chamblen4]

you can't even buy leeches here in central indiana anymore and i do like to catch my own bait. I'm going to try this sometime

[@calvinchristensen4949]

Are leeches the same as bloodsuckers to fish?

[@markdilla7998]

Watching Clayton Schick do this as well

[@adamsons2890]

Do you have to but a substance on the tin material…bait it?

[@robertdaoust5691]

Nice leeches but I think the fish is a Sauger not a Walleye and they are more prevalent in rivers.

[@Lefishn]

I thought same until I paused. The black spot at back of Dorsal and the white tip on tail make it a Walter

[@alexanderstreitz745]

That was a great video! I'm happy you did so well! Go catch some big walleye and smallies, bud

[@patindvik3408]

Chicken livers break down too fast. If you can get your hands on beef kidney it works really well and it holds together better keep them in the trap longer. Also you want to be there as close to daybreak as you can. If you buy the heavy milled black plastic at Home Depot or someplace like that use a vacuum sealer to make a pouch and on the bottom of the pouch make about a 1 inch pouch where you can put some rocks in it and seal them so it sinks. Make it big enough that you can get your hand inside to clean it out but it doesn't have to be much bigger. Take a paper hole punch and punch some holes in it so water will drain out. We use chalk line to attach to it. And just Styrofoam pieces as a float. But we do all of our checking out of kayaks or canoes. We usually sat from 2 foot to no more than 4 foot of water. Best of luck man

[@Wisconsin_Fisherman]

I’ll have to try that so everything is like a plastic bag but a little thicker

[@patindvik3408]

@@Wisconsin_Fisherman yup. You just but the heavy mill black plastic bags or the plastic covers

[@Wisconsin_Fisherman]

@@patindvik3408 send me this in a diagram I’m very intrigued by this! [e-mail]

[@debramadsen2217]

A gunny sack works better and easier. And you don’t have to get out before daylight because they stay in the gunny sack.

[@Wisconsin_Fisherman]

Really do you put the same stuff in it!?

[@andystampfli9127]

So what's the plan on keeping them alive?

[@Wisconsin_Fisherman]

Change water daily keep in garage kinda cold they are fine

[@georgeparson4926]

What's the bait for leeches. Is that chicken livers?

[@Wisconsin_Fisherman]

Yes

[@SantisandKisin]

is that chicken liver?

[@garygarlow1795]

Save your deer livers..

[@michaelmontalto]

"Oh my gosh guys! It's a tank walleye!". Walleye = 14" Not a tank. Not even close to a tank.

[@Wisconsin_Fisherman]

It felt good lol

[@evanegan6843]

Can you leech trap all summer long?

[@Wisconsin_Fisherman]

I'll find out, usually bait shops don't have them after it gets super hot

[@detectvt9849]

DO YOU LIKE YOUR TIDEWE WADERS?

[@Wisconsin_Fisherman]

I really do they were cost effective and have lasted about four years and only has pin hole like super small leaks because I’ve done lots of dock work in them

[@marshallhowe4925]

Lol that has to be the worst trap design I've ever seen lmao the pie tin wasn't bad but y don't you just use like a coffee can with holes in it you will loose alot less

[@Wisconsin_Fisherman]

Yeah sounds good

[@shammarrimal8987]

what you representing ? unfair

[@Wisconsin_Fisherman]

What is your question?