Phil Tereyla has his clients observe the leech’s swimming behavior down on the Arkansas tailwater. The leech’s appearance and behavior change whether you are observing them swimming in the water, attached to a log, or held in the palm of your hand.
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Because of their size, they are a great food source, full of calories compared to smaller insects in the water. If you watch them swim, you’ll get a different perspective on their size compared to flipping over a rock or the bottom of a log and checking them out. When they are swimming, they can stretch themselves to around 3” long. They can take on the color of the vegetation.
Most often they’ll be in dark brown, or black, but there are quite a few olive-colored leeches in our tailwaters. When they get dislodged or venture out from those protective structures, they will drift and swim in the current. You’ll find them under the rocks, or living in the mud, or attached to logs in our fisheries. The leech is a carnivorous worm that feeds on little aquatic insects.
There may be an ebb and flow with fish eating them, as with most bugs, but they are a consistent food source.” About The Leech Fish them in winter, spring, summer, and fall. Covey guides, Phil Tereyla and Brian Hilbert, offer up some suggestions for fishing with this productive pattern.īrian Hilbert says that it’s the “most consistent pattern on my rig regardless of time of year. Our Bug of the Month for February is the leech. The trees that make Reelfoot Lake what it is - if they die, they're gone forever, he says.“Trout love leeches. And new cypress trees can't sprout and grow in the water. It really hurts to lose what we're about to lose."ĭicamba hasn't killed the trees in the lake, but Hayes is convinced that the chemical has weakened them. "I've never seen so many people run from a problem so bad in my life. "The problem with dicamba is, there's so much money behind it," he says with a deep sigh. He thinks state politicians are ignoring the problem - in part because they're scared of Monsanto. If used properly, the company says, dicamba doesn't hurt anything but weeds.īack at Reelfoot Lake, Hayes says his prematurely brown cypress trees are evidence that this isn't true. Monsanto is arguing that the government can't take this tool away from farmers. It's now up to the EPA to decide just how much protection these trees need, balancing that against the desire of many farmers to keep using dicamba. In Arkansas, though, a scientist that state officials hired to conduct a survey saw dicamba-damaged trees in every town that he visited across the northeastern part of the state. In Iowa, forestry experts haven't seen many signs of exposure to dicamba. The amount of damage also changes from place to place. The Salt West Texas Vineyards Blasted By Herbicide Drift From Nearby Cotton Fields "And you can see it goes all the way to the top," he says. Normal sycamore leave are big and flat these are curved into the shape of small cups, a sign of exposure to dicamba. "Well, one thing that would've caught my eye is that sycamore, and them itty-bitty leaves," he says.
He rolled down his window and gestured toward a nearby tree. We passed a big field of soybeans on our right. Greg Allen, an agricultural extension agent with the University of Tennessee, took me on a little drive down a country road a few miles from Reelfoot Lake. "But in the last two or three years I've actually started looking at trees in people's yards and everything, and you know it's amazing, once you start looking, what you see." "I've never really paid attention to trees," says Tom Burnham, a farmer in Mississippi County, Ark. Few people were watching them quite so closely. Receiving less attention, so far, is the damage to wild plants. Prematurely brown needles on this cypress tree show evidence of exposure to dicamba.
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