Page 10 - Mid America Boating - March 2023 issue

Angler’s Angles

By Richard Martin luck on early suckers. Quite often I opt for
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the third choice.
Early spring March and early April bring some tough waters: spotted, hog suckers, and more, but
There are lots of suckers swimming in Ohio
choices for boating anglers. A nice, sunny
day comes along and you’d dearly love a it’s only the white suckers that are of interest
suckers are fi shing jaunt, but your favorite fi shing craft to fi shermen. These can reach eight pounds
is sitting in a building somewhere, and you
plus, though they’ll average only 1 - 3, and
won’t be launching it for a month or two the largest spawn in Lake Erie tributaries, fed
worth seeking yet. Anyway, the water is too darn cold full and fast growing on Erie’s abundant
for serious fi shing.. Bass are slug-
food sources
gish, bluegills and crappie still Suckers start spawning around
in deep water, and channel cats the middle of March, weather
are holding in the deepest holes deciding, and continue their
they can fi nd along the big lake. spawning runs into early April,
So, it’s a matter of stay home, go which makes anytime from right
fi shing unproductively, or try your now to another several weeks or so
prime time to try your luck on these
bony fi sh. Erie suckers live mostly in
deep water, but come early spring they’ll
leave the depths and head upstream in tribu-
taries from Toledo to Conneaut. They’ll swim
up the length of a chosen river or stream
into smaller and smaller tributaries to spawn
in little creeks and rills. And they can be
ambushed along those rivers and streams
almost anywhere along their lengths.
All you need is a couple of light spinning
rods, some garden worms, and that nice,
sunny day. I fi sh suckers tightline with two
hook rigs. A sinker goes onto lines end, then
above and about a foot apart I tie a couple of
No. 6 snelled hooks. That’s all it takes. Cast
the two lines to different parts of the pool,
and if fi sh are there they’ll fi nd the worms
and suck them up with their underslung
mouths. Then there’s a short, but spirited
fi ght and another one on the stringer. Do

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