jcoberley Posted June 9, 2007 Posted June 9, 2007 Crippled Caddis, You sound like a man who knows how to fix fish. I will try that. Fish slow and easy! Borrowed this one from..........Well you know who! A proud memer of P.E.T.A (People Eating Tasty Animals)
Fish Bork Posted June 10, 2007 Posted June 10, 2007 Here is an easy way to figure out what kind of sucker you have when you catch one. Around here you will probably catch either a White Sucker, Golden or Black Redhorse. To determine a White Sucker vs a Redhorse look at the scales they will start small and get larger toward the tail in a White Sucker. The Redhorses are a little harder you have to count the lateral line scales. If there are around 42 you have a Golden and if there are around 45 or more you have a Black. Compared to each othere Blacks have a narrower caudal peduncle but if you only have one fish its tough to guess. Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
Members D.T. Posted June 11, 2007 Members Posted June 11, 2007 I just got back from Taney on Saturday. I have fished Taney 5 years, last year was the first time I have seen suckers, that was at the dock at Lilleys. The kids fished for them with a white micro jig and caught them by the dozen all about 4-5 inches long they had a blast. I thought they were like the carp we have around here, trash fish and left on the bank. This year I found them in a couple spots in the upper end, wading across from koa I found 4 or 5 holding along the bank nice size, and below outlet 2 before the bend to rebar in the middle. I was casting to what I thought were all trout and caught about a dozen but when I left I walked through that area I was fishing and found quite a few suckers in there maybe a dozen or more. If I had caught one I would probably have thrown it on the bank, may not have been legal though. Does anyone know if these are a regulated fish? And what does it mean to score these fish? I mainly practice catch and release, I can count on one hand the number of fish I have eaten in the past 15 years. I have no problem with people keeping what is legal I just don’t care much for fish and I figure what I don’t keep may make up for what some may over keep. I may change this stance a little, this trip my boy and one of the boys that came with us wanted to keep 1 each for dinner. I agreed and cooked them on the grill and could not believe the taste they were great nothing like the bitter put and take trout here in the winter. Dave
Members vince Posted June 11, 2007 Members Posted June 11, 2007 D.T. If you caught dozens and they were only 4-5 inches long they may have been chubs, they get bigger than that and have their mouth off the front of their head instead of the bottom, suckers mouths turn down. I've wondered how they would work for walleye bait?
Wayne SW/MO Posted June 11, 2007 Posted June 11, 2007 DT, if I'm not mistaken its illegal to kill and abandon any wildlife in Missouri, not to mention it stinks things up and draws flies. Today's release is tomorrows gift to another fisherman.
Terry Beeson Posted June 11, 2007 Posted June 11, 2007 ...if I'm not mistaken its illegal to kill and abandon any wildlife in Missouri... Does that include flies, gnats, and skeeters? I may be in BIG trouble!! I think that's purty much the case anywhere now, Wayne. Wonder if they technically could fine you for runnin' over a 'dillo, possum, squirrel, turkey, skunk, frog, snake, etc. on the highway? TIGHT LINES, YA'LL "There he stands, draped in more equipment than a telephone lineman, trying to outwit an organism with a brain no bigger than a breadcrumb, and getting licked in the process." - Paul O’Neil
jcoberley Posted June 11, 2007 Posted June 11, 2007 Frog chips scraped from the hiway! Yum yum. Good Idea Terry. Fish slow and easy! Borrowed this one from..........Well you know who! A proud memer of P.E.T.A (People Eating Tasty Animals)
Terry Beeson Posted June 11, 2007 Posted June 11, 2007 NO NO No No no, JC... There's a better way to use them... Click here and go to photo #8... TIGHT LINES, YA'LL "There he stands, draped in more equipment than a telephone lineman, trying to outwit an organism with a brain no bigger than a breadcrumb, and getting licked in the process." - Paul O’Neil
Kayser Posted June 11, 2007 Posted June 11, 2007 D.T.- to score a fillet means that you take a fillet knife, and make verticle slices in the fillet 1/8" apart all the way down to the skin, starting at the front and working your way towards the tail. When you bread the fillet, make sure that you get breading in these slices, and you will be left with fish "chips" that you pull off the skin and eat. Rob WARNING!! Comments to be interpreted at own risk. Time spent fishing is never wasted.
jcoberley Posted June 11, 2007 Posted June 11, 2007 I have been thinking of trying dillo on the 1/2 shell Fish slow and easy! Borrowed this one from..........Well you know who! A proud memer of P.E.T.A (People Eating Tasty Animals)
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