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Originally Posted by GustavMahler
If I catch them from a number of different trout ponds, they go to the bush,,, if from a river they go back,,, if from the lower lower bow, it will get cut up for goldeye bait. To FH7,, gut the sucker and then cut minnow shaped strips with some meat/skin and scales, crazy good bait for goldeyes and walleye. We bring scissors in our tackle box for cutting strips.
One year at Chain lakes we caught over 100 suckers and F&W recommended we pile them on the ice, so they could get more accurate numbers and the coyotes would take care of the rest.
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Granted...in a stocked trout pond with no inflow or outflow...suckers are not a necessary part of the food chain for trout and in fact predated upon the same food as the trout. Still...some of the fry and YOY as do minnows do add quality calories to the trout that target them.
Chain Lakes was alway reknown for the sucker population