Crappie time!

[Graygills22]

 Ice was not very good, 10-11 inches at best, 2 inches of clear ice, the rest all honey comb. Old holes had sucked in all the water are everywhere.  Caught 6 crappie I released one bluegill released,  3 nice crappie I took home. This was one of the best seasons I've had in long time, due to mostly surgery, bad ice. 

[Graygills22]

Nice crappie!

[Big Buck]

WTG!!!

[walleyeboater]

Nice!

[Graygills22]

Wish I had a partner!

[Tim Burr]

You can bud me here GreyGills,  im in Porter Co. How about you? Will be checking and giving reports on myfishfinder. Might be at Mich. City's Washington Park area Sunday or Burns Ditch river walk. Or send a PM

[zcm_82]

Very nice.  ;

We've been completely open water down here for a few days now. I'm gonna get the boat out to the river to chase some redhorse and bowfin this weekend.

[walleyeboater]

I’ve heard red horse are good eating.

[Tim Burr]

I've tried everything I've caught. Never caught a redhorse,  but looks like a chub or sucker w red fins.  Chubs n suckers aren't too bad. Bowfin😩

[Michigan Slim]

Worst breakfast I ever had was smoked sucker and Rocking Chair whisky. Neither killed the taste of the other................. .. Camping on a sucker stream as a teenager.

[ho-zee]

Very nice.  ;

We've been completely open water down here for a few days now. I'm gonna get the boat out to the river to chase some redhorse and bowfin this weekend.

Don't you live close by willow slough? What do you mean "completely open water for a few days"......the slough is still 90% locked up

[zcm_82]

Don't you live close by willow slough? What do you mean "completely open water for a few days"......the slough is still 90% locked up

I live about 15mi from WS. Haven't been out there in about a month. All the ponds I was ice fishing on are open water, and so are the rivers, so it's boat time.

[zcm_82]

I’ve heard red horse are good eating.

They are really bony, but ok if you fillet them then grind the fillets up. I'm not much of a fish eater, anyway. 99.9% of what I catch goes back in the water. I mostly chase rough fish from the boat.

[walleyeboater]

In-Fisherman magazine used to feature a chef ( female, that owned her restaurant).
I got one of her cookbooks, and she had a red horse sucker recipe in it.
That's what I basing my comment on.

[zcm_82]

An older guy I used to work with liked grilling them, so I used to keep a few for him once in a while. He just gutted and scaled them and picked the meat off the bones after cooking.

I just love catching them because they're thick in the rivers and put up a good fight. I bottom rig little hooks with crawler bits and typically end up pulling a good mix of redhorse, white sucker, carp, along with the odd walleye, panfish, catfish, or drum in the spots I fish.