More Smallies on Sucker Creek

Great little spot. Cannon River tributary. Giant carp, redhorse, white sucker, dogfish, smallies, even walleye. You never know what you are going to catch. I look forward to trying this spot in the spring. The redhorse really go nuts.

Tommy and I met up from 7:00 - 8:30 this morning. Each of us fished with crawler and two splits, the current strong enough that your drift will be too fast with just one. Lots and lots of white suckers, and big ones too. If you want to catch a lot of fish, this is the place. However my main interest was smallies and the hope of redhorse or even a big carp.



Tommy and I at least each got a quality smallmouth. With the bite you can tell what kind of fish you have. Smallies slam it and run with it ASAP. Carp and redhorse are also the same way. However white sucker they often just nibble at that and the minute you feel a little "tap tap" you set the hook. However when you set the hook on a whitey, you should not send it home. Rather feel the fish and sweep and start reeling, the way you are supposed to fish a circle hook.

We really got a lot of tubs but IMO white suckers are not photo worthy. One white sucker too many. We had our fill after 1.5 hours. Every time we caught one we would yell "Kill Whitey" although for the record we did not kill any of them, we let them all go.



Funny people still think it is illegal to let roughfish go. Wednesday night my folks were over and my Dad swore up and down that it is illegal to let roughfish go.