Sucker Spearing (pics to come)


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Its about 2 am here and i just got home ooo.gif. Me, my brother, my brothers friend and his son went out sucker spearing. we speared for about 2 hrs, walked about a mile up the creek. im not sure how many we got i will count tommorow and post pics when i get up. My guess would be we got about 60 including the ones that would flop off the spear. We saw pretty close to 2,000 fish shocked.gif, about 4-5 pike. The creeks were so full of suckers that 5 times i was just puttin my spear to the bottom to feel the depth and i would spear a fish. cool.gif most of the time the creek was about knee deep but some spots were waist deep.

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Sounds good muggs smile.gif

i thought spearing was gonna be easy, but you have to have quick reactions. You have a lantern in one hand and spear in the other and about 90% of the time the fish are moving. It was challenging and it made it fun. When we first went in the water i couldnt get the timing down to be able to throw a spear at them but as time went on it got easier.

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It's fun isn't it??? We call it GIGGING. We use a 4 prong gig. They hardly ever get off. Here's a pic of ours:

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I bet that is a blast but im not real sure I could eat a sucker! crazy.gif

Is that the same thing people refer to as "Red Horse?"

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im not sure but i believe so, I know there is a lot of different kinds of suckers. The ones that i know of or atleast think there are lol hmm White sucker, and long nose sucker here in michigan. and i believe i have heard of redhorse.

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I bet that is a blast but im not real sure I could eat a sucker! crazy.gif

Is that the same thing people refer to as "Red Horse?"

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Yeah, what we kill is called a redhorse sucker. smirk.gif

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