Leaches???

[scottietwohoty]

What's up with this I read on the other site that the river and Havi is infested with leaches?

 

[scottietwohoty]

And not just the ones that drink all your beer and eat all your shit!!

 

[ductape1000]

I was told that when we were in havasu at the begining of july. a guy told me to watch my anchor line when i pulled it up. i never saw any in a 5 day trip. ??????

 

[Flying_Lavey]

And not just the ones that drink all your beer and eat all your shit!!

You hang out with people that eat your shit? That's just WRONG!!!

 

[Bobby V]

What's up whith this I read on the other site that the river and Havi is infested with leaches?

If you read it you would know that the leeches are at the sandbar in the muddy area. Not in the lake part of Havasu..:swear

 

[Riverbound]

I have not heard that. Hope its just River gossip:thumbsdown

 

[RiverDave]

I have not heard that. Hope its just River gossip:thumbsdown

Not river gossip.. Baby Leaches in the mud up in Havasu!!

RD

 

[Riverbound]

Not river gossip.. Baby Leaches in the mud up in Havasu!!

RD

yuck!!!!! Looks like somebody needs to chlorinate

 

[Bobby V]

Not river gossip.. Baby Leaches in the mud up in Havasu!!

RD

Not in HAVASU...At the SANDBAR..!!!!!:swear

 

[Mock Auntie]

There is a sign posted at Katherine's that the leeches are here. *edited Thanks to Havasu1986 (the resident spelling patrol) I just saw it last week.

 

[Mock Auntie]

I quess none of your 3 degrees are in spelling..:skull

Leech - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

you are correct...BA Psychology, BS Mathematics, MS Technology

If spell check doesn't catch it I'm screwed.

 

[Bobby V]

Pic of ladys foot at the sandbar.

 

[HavasuHank]

Pic of ladys foot at the sandbar.

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thats nasty ... it looks like i'll be skipping the sandbar next weekend.

guess i'll just go back at the nautical and drink some beer:thumbsup

 

[Mock Auntie]

Pic of ladys foot at the sandbar.

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looks better than mine right now

 

[scottietwohoty]

If spell check doesn't catch it I'm screwed.

So am I!! And I started this thread.

 

[Johnny_5]

whoa... we were just having this conversation the weekend of 16,17,18... We were in a cove/shallow area, lots of black mud on the chemihueve side, and my brother found some small worm like creatures. We all jokingly called them leeches, wonder if they really were. YUCK! :cry:

we also found three unfertilized soft turtle eggs.

Does anyone have a link to such article regarding the the leeches?

 

[Constant840]

I quess none of your 3 degrees are in spelling..:skull

You must have one though?

 

[Mock Auntie]

I quess none of your 3 degrees are in spelling..:skull

You must have one though?

Me or him?

 

[Mock Auntie]

So am I!! And I started this thread.

Yes but notice how no one is pointing that out... :hmm

 

[Constant840]

^^^ My mistake. I screwed up the quote... Him.>>> quess?

 

[Constant840]

Indeed.

 

[scottietwohoty]

Yes but notice how no one is pointing that out... :hmm

SHHHHH!!! I'm just stuck on stupid today.

 

[WTRR]

You guys are cracking me up...I can't believe you are scared of leeches. People used to pay good money for a good bloodletting.

If one gets on you just take a knife blade or something flat and slide under the body and wiggle it around once you get near the head of it. They will pop right off. That's how my Dad taught me to get them off when I was a kid. Took one off my wife's foot about a month ago at the river. No biggie...

 

[DickieB]

 

[rivermobster]

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Hahahaha!!!

 

[Nord]

I was at the sandbar 3 weeks ago and we walked all the way around it (including the stinky muddy part) and we didn't find any leeches. I've heard from multiple people that they are there though.

 

[Classic Daycruiser]

Remember all the snapping turtles in Havasu a few years back. The Hospital had a half a dozen cases where people got their toes snapped off

That lake is nothing but dangerous:skull:skull:skull

 

[Gelcoater]

Remember all the snapping turtles in Havasu a few years back. The Hospital had a half a dozen cases where people got their toes snapped off

That lake is nothing but dangerous:skull:skull:skull

at least theres no mocks or gators

 

[DickieB]

at least theres no mocks or gators

Oh no?

 

[Havaduner]

Remember all the snapping turtles in Havasu a few years back. The Hospital had a half a dozen cases where people got their toes snapped off

That lake is nothing but dangerous:skull:skull:skull

I hear there are pirannahas in the lake now too!! LOL!

I have seen leaches on a guys foot at Havasu Landing a couple weeks ago. Havent had any on me yet.

 

[Hugh Jascaulk]

Had a friend of a friend tell me people in their group were hanging in the channel, by Kingsview condo's and had leaches all over their feet after hanging in the water all day. Anybody else?

 

[Old Man Havasu]

Not river gossip.. Baby Leaches in the mud up in Havasu!!

RD

What's next Piranhas???

 

[Gramps]

It's not a rumor. I remember leaches at the river back in the early 70's

 

[Phebus]

Leaches are getting to be everywhere on the lake. One of those cycles of nature.

 

[Letzgo]

I droped anchor in whipple bay this weekend and when i pulled it up it had a couple hundred leeches on it. They are not just at the sandbar.

 

[2Driver]

If one gets on you just take a knife blade or something flat and slide under the body and wiggle it around once you get near the head of it. They will pop right off. No biggie...

Yeah but where else can they go and attach?

 

[beaverretriever]

Little Sand Bar. We didn't get them all day moving around on Saturday until we were standing in one spot for quite a while. Got on the boat and it looked like mud spots on my feet up 5-7 inches up my leg. I went to wipe it off and said "oh shit!" They were between my toes too. My wife flipped, it was pretty funny. I think she had the heebie jeebies all day after that.

They were no big deal, but the rumors are true. They looked just like the photo posted earlier in the thread of the lady's foot.

 

[WTDecker]

Had a friend of a friend tell me people in their group were hanging in the channel, by Kingsview condo's and had leaches all over their feet after hanging in the water all day. Anybody else?

I was hangin out at Kingsview all last week not one leach on me or my friends. I've never had that problem in the Channel with leeches or anywhere else on the lake, saw a few crawdads. Maybe my blood is tainted.

 

[WTDecker]

Leaches are getting to be everywhere on the lake. One of those cycles of nature.

Yeah and keep askin for a beer and a smoke.

 

[500bbc]

Pic of ladys foot at the sandbar.

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That's not a leech, looks like spermatozoa. Probably from Fo Sitty.

 

[HavasuHank]

we were in a cove down river from steamboat. when we pulled anchor, there were leaches on it.

 

[pronstar]

we were in a cove down river from steamboat. when we pulled anchor, there were leaches on it.

I think some leaches drank all of your beer the last time I was up at your house.
Weird :headscratch:

 

[spotondl]

Had about 100 leeches attached on our feet and between our toes on Memorial Day weekend just above grass island on the way up to sandbar... Not cool... Ruined perfectly good cove tail:skull:skull:skull

 

[squirtnmyload]

fuck that

 

[HavasuHank]

I think some leaches drank all of your beer the last time I was up at your house.
Weird :headscratch:

seems to be an ongoing problem

 

[Havasteve]

Yes, Havasu is full of leaches right now, it's really bad. I heard that Parker Strip doesn't have this problem.

 

[gnawty1]

I live in Havasu and YES there are leeches and they are not just at the sandbar. You can find them up and down the river. Right across from Body Beach on the California side there are leeches as well. They look like little red thread about an inch in length. We also have Naegleria fowleri amoeba in our lake and if one gets up your nose and into your brain you are dead within two weeks and there is no cure.

 

[angiebaby]

Gross!

 

[RiverDave]

Whatever did happen to Scotty2hottie?

 

[Wheeler]

I live in Havasu and YES there are leeches and they are not just at the sandbar. You can find them up and down the river. Right across from Body Beach on the California side there are leeches as well. They look like little red thread about an inch in length. We also have Naegleria fowleri amoeba in our lake and if one gets up your nose and into your brain you are dead within two weeks and there is no cure.

at least the ice snakes are gone for the season.