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Title: When do the suckers run?
Post by: Lcabait on Apr 02, 2018, 07:01 PM: Just wondering about when the suckers usually start running?
Title: Re: When do the suckers run?
Post by: mowbizz on Apr 02, 2018, 07:36 PM: Quote from: Lcabait on Apr 02, 2018, 07:01 PM
Just wondering about when the suckers usually start running?

If you watch them very closely, when they begin to put on their tiny sneakers... ;D
April fools!
Seriously though don’t they run in the Fall?
Title: Re: When do the suckers run?
Post by: Lcabait on Apr 02, 2018, 07:48 PM: They do in the spring but not sure when really? I would think April-may.
Title: Re: When do the suckers run?
Post by: SHaRPS on Apr 02, 2018, 09:00 PM: End of april.
Title: Re: When do the suckers run?
Post by: Rackbuck on Apr 03, 2018, 11:25 AM: Usually end of April, beginning of may. Depends on water temp. They also tend to run earlier in smaller water bodies and a bit later in big lakes it seems.
Title: Re: When do the suckers run?
Post by: celtbass on Apr 03, 2018, 12:20 PM: I remember them running during April vacation almost every year when I was in school
Title: Re: When do the suckers run?
Post by: Gills-only on Apr 03, 2018, 01:18 PM: Some running in Michigan now
Title: Re: When do the suckers run?
Post by: DR.SPECKLER on Apr 03, 2018, 03:19 PM: peak run of suckers where I'm at in Michigan.damn things keep eating my spawn sacks.
Title: Re: When do the suckers run?
Post by: Gills-only on Apr 03, 2018, 04:37 PM: Quote from: mowbizz on Apr 02, 2018, 07:36 PM
If you watch them very closely, when they begin to put on their tiny sneakers... ;D
April fools!
Seriously though don’t they run in the Fall?
. I think suckers only run in the spring, to spawn
Title: Re: When do the suckers run?
Post by: JIGGIN- on Apr 03, 2018, 04:50 PM: They run in the spring. Tough to keep alive until winter. I trap my suckers in the fall, its a pain but thats the best way to do it.
Title: Re: When do the suckers run?
Post by: Gunflint on Apr 03, 2018, 05:03 PM: They run in the spring. We used to spear them by the gunny sack full and smoke them.

They were great smoked, almost as good as the whitefish we netted in the fall.
Title: Re: When do the suckers run?
Post by: Lcabait on Apr 03, 2018, 06:42 PM: Thanks for all the input guys, just want to get the kids out there to see it and try and catch a few!!
Title: Re: When do the suckers run?
Post by: dunphy11 on Apr 19, 2018, 07:25 AM: They definitely won`t keep alive and healthy unless they are living freely in a body of water. We could never keep them well in a box until October .