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Old 02-22-2016, 12:12 AM
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I wish I knew how to catch suckers. I know there has to be thousands of them within ten miles of my place, but I've never fished for them.
I always seem to catch the most suckers using a pickeral rig with worms. Move the hooks lower on the rig so they are closer to the bottom. Alot of times they will be sucking on your worms and it helps to give a little set to the hook.
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Old 02-22-2016, 08:28 AM
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We called the spring sucker run "The Ukranian Trout Festival". LOL, That was way back in the 70's and 80's.
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Old 02-22-2016, 11:51 AM
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Ive caught suckers while trolling for walleye with spinner and minnow. We used to net and spear them by hundreds when I was a kid in Ontario and manitoba. They are delicious smoked or canned.
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Old 02-22-2016, 02:15 PM
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Smelts are the sign of spring in the east,delicious fried in butter.No limit we used 6' square nets and caught them by the bushel basket full.
Yup we'd catch bucket loads out of Niagara river in the 70's clean em roll em in flour fry and bunch of vinegar, mmmmm.
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Old 02-22-2016, 03:13 PM
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We called the spring sucker run "The Ukranian Trout Festival". LOL, That was way back in the 70's and 80's.
That is hilarious....holly smokes. Thanks for the chuckle!!!!
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Old 02-22-2016, 05:44 PM
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I worked with a bunch of guy's from Oklahoma this winter and they love Sucker fish. They have gigging tournaments to catch them and then have a huge sucker feast. They claim that there is a special way to cook it that included scoring the flesh and then deep frying it. I never tried it but they swore by it, they thought I was crazy when I said we did not eat them.
On WFN a while back that went sucker fishing in a great lakes tributary and showed how to fillet and cook them. Scale, leave skin on, fillet like a pike. But they have 2 sets of "y bones". He scored the fillets to the skin through the bones, coated them in whatever fish coating, cut into smaller chunks and then deep fried the chunks. It was said that this crystallizes the bones - he and his 2 companions were eating them up and exclaiming how good they were so ...?
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Old 02-22-2016, 05:52 PM
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People eat Tilapia all the time, those things follow close behind hippos eating dung and then they turn around and eat their own. Worked in the lethbridge aquaculture building and we would clean the tank from young fish and trough it in the brood tanks and they would have it cleaned up in seconds. Can't see why a sucker from a deep cold lake that has been eating fish eggs, small fish and crustaceans would taste that bad if prepared right.
Any Tilapia that come from California fish farms are raised in the clean out canals from the Striped Bass (or probably other fish as well) tanks/ponds. All the crap from the other fish is recycled to the Tilapia, and they are harvested from the canal. Very efficient system - I gather the Tilapia is just a very efficient scavenger in terms of more efficient digestion of what the other fish leave behind (?). Not a Tilapia fan at all, but I imagine the average sucker has a much less "disgusting" diet.
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Old 02-22-2016, 07:14 PM
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Any Tilapia that come from California fish farms are raised in the clean out canals from the Striped Bass (or probably other fish as well) tanks/ponds. All the crap from the other fish is recycled to the Tilapia, and they are harvested from the canal. Very efficient system - I gather the Tilapia is just a very efficient scavenger in terms of more efficient digestion of what the other fish leave behind (?). Not a Tilapia fan at all, but I imagine the average sucker has a much less "disgusting" diet.
I'd say a sucker is better than a tilapia any day. But I've only eaten the latter.
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