Northwoods Vampires: Leeches vs. walleye minnow (Graphic)

We were camping on Lake 3 in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. On the shore by our campsite, someone had made a little reservoir with rocks and sand to keep leeches. While I was swimming, I caught a leech that was swimming by, and put it in the reservoir. Later, I found a dead walleye minnow in perfect condition. I dropped it in with the leech to see whether it would attach to it or not. A few minutes later, I looked in on it, and was surprised to see that several more leeches had come out of hiding, and that they had already eviscerated the poor minnow. They were attacking it savagely, and tearing through it like lampreys or hagfish tear into a dead whale. It was fascinating.

Over the next several hours, I shot a few minutes of video every fifteen minutes or so. By the next morning, the minnow and the leeches had completely disappeared.

I was planning on using music from "Jaws" to make a shark attack spoof, but that just didn't work. I think the vampire theme works much better.

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