Volume 8, Issue 12

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of better understanding their  quarry, spent the previous evening attempting to imitate fishes’ widely noted ability to process large amounts of liquid.

 

Leech - 1. Blood-sucking parasitic worm that attaches itself with a pair of suckers to the legs of wading fisherman. The bite is not really all that serious, and since the leech introduces a small amount of an irritating anticoagulant into the wound, the most sensible thing ot do is to leave the leech in place until it drops off of its own accord, at which point it will have withdrawn the itch-producing substance. 2. Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagh.

 

Note: Reprinted for your pleasure from “Fishing, and Angler’s Dictionary” by Henry Beard & Roy McKie, Workman Publishing, New York, 1983.

Lake - Ecologists classify lakes as being oligotropic (low in nourishment) or eutropic (high in nourishment), and while terms such as these are of some interest to anglers eager to learn about the life cycles of various fish species, most fisherman prefer to know whether a given lake is autocatastropic (approachable only by deeply rutted dirt roads); peptobismolic (frequented by maniacs in overpowered speedboats); or photosoporific (characterized by natural scenic beauty that leads fellow anglers to take hundreds of boring pictures if it for slide shows and home movies).

 

Leader - Short length of nylon or wire that connects a snagged lure to a tangled line.

 

Leadhead - 1. Slang term for a particular type of metal jig. 2. Unpleasant cranial condition suffered in the morning hours by dedicated anglers who, in the interests