From weight and grip size to the materials used, every detail of a paddle can impact your game, whether you’re aiming for accuracy or looking to add some spin. In this guide to the best ...

As we tidy away the Dracula capes and glow-in-the-dark plastic fangs for another winter, one notorious blood sucker has had a particularly good year. For the first time the medicinal leech Hirudo ...

McFly Angler has a great tutorial on tying a dubbed rabbit leech. I love rabbit leeches, and feel like they don’t get fished enough. In fact, I’d take them over most woolly buggers any day, because ...

the post read. Ben Pike was farewelled at a paddle-out at RAAFs beach. Picture: supplied/Peter James Photography/Adam Stan Photography Another tribute said Mr Pike was “a magnet of good energy ...

Using leeches to suck the blood out of a person might sound medieval, but it’s actually a medicinal practice still used today at many trauma hospitals. Though only used in a handful of cases ...

A project set up to boost Scotland's rare population of medicinal leeches has got its first babies. Twenty have hatched in a captive-breeding programme at the Highland Wildlife Park at Kincraig ...

Sucking leech. Image by GlebK, CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Did you know that there are around 480 different ...

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SARANAC LAKE — Perhaps the best way not to find leeches is to go looking for them. There are some 700 species of leeches in the world, and about 500 of them live in freshwater. Not all of them ...