lamprey biting a spoon?

[empty hook]

launched the boat this weekend and we did some brown trout fishing. has anyone ever had a lamprey bite a spoon? we had one bite our spoon, the hook was inside its sucker mouth. we did practice cpr on him catch, photographed and released ( in 2 pieces).

[Big Dave]

I would sooner think that it was snached off the fish as it came up to look at the spoon. They don't look like the fastest swimmers in the pond, more like a bushwacker type

[Legacy]

I "caught" one on a flasher/fly a few years back. I figured it got snag going after the flasher thinking it was a new host but it didnt live long enough for me to ask.

[motoman]

same thing here a few years back ,wiped his azz to death !

[Knotlost]

There seems to me a lot of them this year, I would say that 85% of all the browns I have caught have Lamprey marks on them and we have had 2 on the boat after landing the host, both got killed before going back into the lake.