carnivorous suckers!

[DB Cooper]

It has happened again. while jigging for walleye with a spoon (swedish pimple #3 and even flutter spoons) and 2-3 in minnow, a nice mark comes in on the vex and wham! SUCKER!!! (redhorse i think) right in the mouth. (we keep em for lake trout bait) It happens a few times every year, wondering if anybody else experiences these aggressive sucker hits. Jigging a foot to 6 in of the bottom.

[Penn920]

Ya in CT I catch them a spoons sometimes when I am trout fishing. They murder the spoons to like a cross between a pike and a striped bass

[slipperybob]

When those guys will hit minnows or spoons...they'll totally take feather/hair jigs like candy.

[327trout]

One time I caught a sucker so I gutted him(to use him for bait) and dumped the guts down the hole. I thought this might attract a big trout but instead I watched another sucker come in and eat the guts on my camera. Scared all my perch away too.

[fish4kitty]

I've never heard of it. But I don't deal with suckers much.

[slipperybob]

I'm always dissappointed thinking that I've got a big trout on the end of the line just to pull up a big sucker.

[ice--cube]

I have cought them on the river in the summer when i was walleye fishing with crankbaits.

[teamlund]

We catch suckers a couple times a spring while fishing during the walleye run on the wolf river in WI. Good fight. We just toss them back

[icerod]

We would fish for red horse and white sucker in the spring when they are running the rivers in Minnesota. They love night crawlers, on the bottem. We would fish them a lot like fishing cat fish. Their a great fight on light tackle. They are very good smoked. Very good pickled as well.

[wesson4]

Don't catch too many through the ice, but like icerod i fish/gig the sh!t outta them in the spring when they spawn. My gram taught me how to make sucker cakes. Fry'em up just like a burger.Mmmmm!!!

[icerod]

Wesson4 I would like to learn how to make a good fish cake. I don't want you to give up any secrets or anything like that, but if you have a good recipe for them I would appreciate getting one.