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| Whats everyone paying for 12-15inch suckers this fall? And where are you buying them at. Just looking for somplace in western wi or southern mn/ metro area |
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| Northern WI, I payed 9 to 10 dollars for 14-16 inch suckers. |
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Location: West Central Wisconsin | Russell's Sport & Bike in Star Prairie (western WI) had suckers last Sat. About $10/ea. Not "south" metro, but Blue Ribbon Bait in Oakdale had a good selection last week. Didn't check pricing. |
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Location: Alex or Alek? | $8 near Alexandria. |
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Location: The desert | Ben's Bait by Battle Lake sold some dinky suckers for $10 a piece and wanted $12 for bigger ones, which they didn't have. Won't be going there again. |
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| Can any of you tell me where we can get suckers going up to LOTW? We stay in the Morson area so we can go up thru International Falls or Baudette. You help is greatly appreciated. |
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Location: Alex or Alek? | muskie55 - 10/19/2017 6:13 AM
Is that at spruce center bait?
Yea they aren't huge by any means, but no other bait shop sells them that I can find so far. (first summer living in the area) |
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| Try Burnsville Shell & Bait. If you need 15 or more call before Thursday to place your order. |
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Location: Elk River, MN | Pointerpride102 - 10/18/2017 7:41 PM
Ben's Bait by Battle Lake sold some dinky suckers for $10 a piece and wanted $12 for bigger ones, which they didn't have. Won't be going there again.
Ever try Urbank Live Bait? |
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| mnmusky - 10/19/2017 6:47 AM $8 for the 16" at thorne. they get shipments every Thursday and usually gone by Sat. I bought suckers there on Friday and its $12 per sucker up to 16", then $15 per sucker over 16". Just checked the receipt in my wallet. |
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| That's what I heard as well. You are NOT getting suckers for $8 a pop at Thorne's unless you are getting a massive friends and family discount. |
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| Paid $7.00 for nice average suckers in Eagle River Saturday morning. They had giants too but I didn’t inquire the price. I don’t want the big suckers to scare away the 33 inchers I target. Don’t like cleaning the big ones. |
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Location: Almond, WI | I had $7 for ~14"ers in Tomahawk the other day. |
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Location: Northern Wisconsin | What bait shop in tomahawk? |
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Location: Oregon, WI | 6.95 at JB Liquors in McFarland for what ever size they have. |
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Location: The desert | Espy - 10/19/2017 8:38 AM
Pointerpride102 - 10/18/2017 7:41 PM
Ben's Bait by Battle Lake sold some dinky suckers for $10 a piece and wanted $12 for bigger ones, which they didn't have. Won't be going there again.
Ever try Urbank Live Bait?
I haven't. I've heard that they weren't doing suckers anymore, but haven't really checked.
I've got other sources, just happened to be fishing Battle with a buddy that day and normally Ben's has decent suckers, but after that price gouging for spearing decoy sized suckers....never again. |
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Location: Ashland WI | Pointerpride102 - 10/20/2017 7:35 AM
Espy - 10/19/2017 8:38 AM
Pointerpride102 - 10/18/2017 7:41 PM
Ben's Bait by Battle Lake sold some dinky suckers for $10 a piece and wanted $12 for bigger ones, which they didn't have. Won't be going there again.
Ever try Urbank Live Bait?
I haven't. I've heard that they weren't doing suckers anymore, but haven't really checked.
I've got other sources, just happened to be fishing Battle with a buddy that day and normally Ben's has decent suckers, but after that price gouging for spearing decoy sized suckers....never again.
Might not really be price gouging. Maybe that is all their supplier had, and they were just adding there standard markup? |
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Location: Contrarian Island | it's called Economics 101. Suckers use to be 3-4 bux in MN... then the dealers started realizing they could get 10-12 for them. Can ya blame em for upping the price? the suppliers have tons of them, it is not a supply issue in MN...simple supply and demand..  if you don't want to pay it, don't.
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Location: The desert | 14ledo81 - 10/20/2017 7:56 AM
Pointerpride102 - 10/20/2017 7:35 AM
Espy - 10/19/2017 8:38 AM
Pointerpride102 - 10/18/2017 7:41 PM
Ben's Bait by Battle Lake sold some dinky suckers for $10 a piece and wanted $12 for bigger ones, which they didn't have. Won't be going there again.
Ever try Urbank Live Bait?
I haven't. I've heard that they weren't doing suckers anymore, but haven't really checked.
I've got other sources, just happened to be fishing Battle with a buddy that day and normally Ben's has decent suckers, but after that price gouging for spearing decoy sized suckers....never again.
Might not really be price gouging. Maybe that is all their supplier had, and they were just adding there standard markup?
Correct, it was their standard price. It depends on what pond they pull from on what size they have, we just happened to be there on a day they pulled from a pond full of dinks. I get that they can sell them for that price because people buy them, my buddy bought 4. Once musky season is over and ice fishing/spearing season rolls around those exact same suckers sell for the $3-4 price Brad mentions. They know musky guys will buy them so it's simple economics. Still, there are enough places around for much cheaper and more reliable sizes that I don't need to waste my time going there. I was simply putting it out there for people who may be looking for suckers in this area. I'm not going to divulge my sources openly, because I can get them cheap enough and if more people start using them they might up their price. |
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| $8 for 12-14" and $12 for bigger at Cabin Fever in Victoria |
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Location: Almond, WI | fish4musky1 - 10/19/2017 7:27 PM
What bait shop in tomahawk?
That was Chuck's. Came out to $28.80 I think, he let me sort for a consistent size also. |
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| I own a baitshop in Florence, WI and those size suckers are $10 here. |
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Location: Waukesha & Land O Lakes, WI | 7.50 for Mediums at Northern Highland Sports in Boulder Junction this past weekend. |
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| $8.50 for mediums and $9.50 for large in Townsend, WI. |
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| Use artificials (Im still seeing fish on them in late Oct), cheaper and better for releasing the fish anyway. |
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Location: Contrarian Island | $12 sucker. 55.25 incher... priceless.
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Location: S.W. WI | hans - 10/30/2017 9:39 AM
Use artificials (Im still seeing fish on them in late Oct), cheaper and better for releasing the fish anyway.
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| that's my point. I see people using them "wrong" all the time. Small sucker, single hook waiting for the fish to swallow and deep hook... And Id like to think you can still catch fish on lures very late into the season. |
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Location: Ashland WI | hans - 10/30/2017 1:07 PM
that's my point. I see people using them "wrong" all the time. Small sucker, single hook waiting for the fish to swallow and deep hook... And Id like to think you can still catch fish on lures very late into the season.
I would venture to say that 99% of the guys reading this site do not fish suckers the way you explained. |
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| Fair enough. Obviously suckers work, and if used correctly, do no more harm to fish then lures... I just wish I didn't have to see people, on Lake Harriet for example, year after year catching them off the docks with suckers. Where Ive witnessed on more than one occassion the line going all the way into the stomach of the fish, after letting the fish "take" the sucker. |
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Location: Contrarian Island | we watched some clowns this weekend let a fish have a sucker no less than 6 minutes before setting the hook. Bad part of sucker fishing is everyone thinks they're a musky fisherman in the fall and do things incorrectly.
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Location: oswego, il | You can catch muskies late in the year without suckers. You can catch many more using them. The amount of money we spend on musky fishing are suckers really going to break you? I fished 3 days last week. Caught a small one casting, two follows. Partners 0 follows. Suckers 1 for 6 and a nice pike. 2 lost at the boat. Guides in minnesota drift with suckers in november. Does Brad post a pic of a giant on an uncertified bump board?:-) probably not. It is pretty obvious what is the productive choice. |
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Location: Contrarian Island | yah I get a kick out of these threads every year, most guys have well into the 100s of baits that they have never caught a fish on...but b*tch about a 8 to 12 sucker... we spent about 140 bux in suckers last weekend...but also boated 6 fish with a 51" average... yah, don't buy suckers! keep buying 40 dollar bucktails, 50 dollar topwaters, 90 dollar cranks, and 150 dollar jerkbaits. real smart.
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Location: Northwest Chicago Burbs | BNelson - 11/1/2017 9:31 AM
yah I get a kick out of these threads every year, most guys have well into the 100s of baits that they have never caught a fish on...but b*tch about a 8 to 12 sucker... we spent about 140 bux in suckers last weekend...but also boated 6 fish with a 51" average... yah, don't buy suckers! keep buying 40 dollar bucktails, 50 dollar topwaters, 90 dollar cranks, and 150 dollar jerkbaits. real smart. ;)
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| The difference is a lure lasts you years,,I've never lost a floating topwater ever. Don't like a lure you buy sell it, swap it, I don't see any "used" suckers on the current M1st trade board,,, A sucker lasts part of or one day.
Suckers work much better in late fall especially when the water temps fall past 55 no argument with that,,but I want to fool the fish not feed them what they want with a hook attached I don't really see any triggering skill in that. To each his own.
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Location: Contrarian Island | yes to each their own.. but casting out a double 10 and simply reeling it in isn't exactly hard to do either is it?... nor is putting a lure 50 feet behind the boat and driving around..... you're also telling us that a fish can decipher that a lure isn't real and a sucker is...? wrong. while I do see your point, catching a fish is catching a fish. plenty of skunkless days fishing w suckers to know it's not a guarantee.
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| If your pro or con about suckers it doesn't matter on what's maybe the most humorous thing in musky fishing,,
Watching a guy rig up his sucker then see it get casted off on his first cast, I grew up in south Minneapolis and I still learn a bunch of new swear words when that happens |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | Anyone who feels there's little skill displayed in fishing live bait for muskies needs to spend a day on Eagle in late October with Herbie. We worked our tails off throwing rubber and cranks and caught/lost an even number on lures and live bait. Just another way to catch a muskie, no more harm to the fish with Herbie's rig than a crank bait or swimbait, and one heck of a lot of fun. and it works when everything in the boat is icing up. Never had a rip trolling, but that had been really effective for him a couple days earlier.
One fish (a 47) hit Dave's lure and got off, swung around and hit a sucker and I missed it, made a heck of an attempt at a TI swimbait, swung back around and hit a sucker and was boated. Another gave us fits (big blondie) following and harrassing the sucker and didn't hit. I caught the ugliest muskie I have ever boated on a sucker. Poor thing looked like it had been drug around by a truck, had light monofilament literally grown into it's body, and was so scarred up I was amazed it was so scrappy. Dave had a low 40" class fish smash a dawg and jump HARD into the side of the boat, knocking the lure out.
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | jonnysled - 11/1/2017 2:41 PM
any pheasants in western MN?
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Dead dog,,he had some nerve pulling this on me after 17 years,,no pheasant hunting this year,, grouse hunting better suited to walking, be hitting it hard now in Nov everybody's attention is on deer hunting not birds. |
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Location: minocqua, wi. | happy hooker - 11/1/2017 3:04 PM
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Dead dog,,he had some nerve pulling this on me after 17 years,,no pheasant hunting this year,, grouse hunting better suited to walking, be hitting it hard now in Nov everybody's attention is on deer hunting not birds.
have dogs will travel ...
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Location: Ashland WI | sworrall - 11/1/2017 2:46 PM
Anyone who feels there's little skill displayed in fishing live bait for muskies needs to spend a day on Eagle in late October with Herbie. We worked our tails off throwing rubber and cranks and caught/lost an even number on lures and live bait. Just another way to catch a muskie, no more harm to the fish with Herbie's rig than a crank bait or swimbait, and one heck of a lot of fun. and it works when everything in the boat is icing up. Never had a rip trolling, but that had been really effective for him a couple days earlier.
One fish (a 47) hit Dave's lure and got off, swung around and hit a sucker and I missed it, made a heck of an attempt at a TI swimbait, swung back around and hit a sucker and was boated. Another gave us fits (big blondie) following and harrassing the sucker and didn't hit. I caught the ugliest muskie I have ever boated on a sucker. Poor thing looked like it had been drug around by a truck, had light monofilament literally grown into it's body, and was so scarred up I was amazed it was so scrappy. Dave had a low 40" class fish smash a dawg and jump HARD into the side of the boat, knocking the lure out.
Fun trip, shortened by a real, honest, no kidding 12 hour blizzard.
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Location: oswego, il | There is alot more to all of it. You can go to a sport show, get your lotw map marked with a bunch of good spots, buy the baits that catch fish there, go at the right time and get your ass handed to you while a good fisherman might light it up. Happens all the time on our club outings up there. The good fisherman typically put 20+ fish in the boat while others skunk for the week. It is that way with every aspect of this sport if in fact we are atheletes.:-) |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | happy hooker - 11/1/2017 4:49 PM
I'd love to be considered an athlete ill go with that
But,,I've yet to see a musky guy do jumping jacks,push ups and wind sprints at the boat landing before heading out.
I was moving pretty good before, during, and after the day on the water just to keep warm. If it was that cold all the time I'd be much more fit.... |
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Location: Vilas | R&M in Eagle River was $8 for medium and $10 for large... Rays Landing in St Germain is the same..... I personally choose not to spend that on suckers, its ridiculous.... dusted off my fuzzy duzzit and am catching the same amount of fish as in the past... my $10 went to a bottle of Aleve as working the Fuzzy duzzit for a few hours and you need them! |
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| I asked way earlier in this post where to get suckers in Canada and nobody responded. We are going to Morson next week (LOTW). Can anyone help. |
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Location: Northern Illinois | With all due respect, there's more to trolling than "putting a lure 50 feet behind the boat and driving around" as I'm sure you're aware. As TM says, there is a lot more to all of it. |
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Location: Contrarian Island | is there? we can dumb down any tactic if we want. a guy can go out and do exactly as I described and catch a fish...and that is my point...to do any of the tactics well, it takes skill. can a guy go out dunk a sucker and catch A fish...sure, but the guys that do any of the tactics well will catch multiple fish.... I know guys that are very good trollers, well if I trolled the same body of water as they do, I have zero doubt they would kick my butt and catch more... guys that think sucker fish is 'easy', well, yes, in all honesty casting, trolling, and sucker fishing are 'easy'. but anyone that doesn't do any of the tactics will find out, it takes a lot of skill to do any of them well and catch lots of fish.... that is the point... |
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Location: Waukesha & Land O Lakes, WI | "but I want to fool the fish not feed them what they want with a hook attached I don't really see any triggering skill in that. To each his own."
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| Gander Mt Guide - 11/2/2017 10:36 AM
"but I want to fool the fish not feed them what they want with a hook attached I don't really see any triggering skill in that. To each his own."
I guess I'm done using fatheads and leeches for walleyes.
Gander Guide hit the nail on the head! Why some consider catching the apex predator on live bait "easy" but will have zero problem using live bait to catch a walleye always makes me laugh. |
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| I use leeches and minnows for walleye because I treat walleye like food I'd drag a net if the dnr let us ,,rather catch a 2 1/2 pounder then a 7 pounder. Get the limit and get out and get them covered in batter and live bait works better for making that fish fry happen and our dnr regs on most lakes see this has a harvest fish.
In Minnesota the muskie is managed has a trophy species with its size limits. if I'm going to make the commitment to put more time in chasing a trophy I want to do it in a way that makes ME feel like I won that trophy I beat him.
Feed me an Apple ill eat it
Feed me some artificial fruit and I bite into it,,Ill laugh and say "you got me"
Feed me an Apple with poison injected into it and you didn't fool me you didn't best me you simply gave me real food with something hidden inside.
To me sucker fishing is feeding the fish with a hook and I don't want to catch a trophy species that way.
Another example would be turkey hunting shoot em at 30 yds with a shotgun after you worked hard calling them in. Not like out west where you can shoot them with a scoped rifle from 100 yds away.
Just a preference,,, "nobody's talking about banning sucker fishing"
I hate trolling too,,,but then again I'm having fun "trolling" for an argument here.
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| happy hooker - 11/2/2017 6:57 PM
I use leeches and minnows for walleye because I treat walleye like food I'd drag a net if the dnr let us ,,rather catch a 2 1/2 pounder then a 7 pounder. Get the limit and get out and get them covered in batter and live bait works better for making that fish fry happen and our dnr regs on most lakes see this has a harvest fish.
In Minnesota the muskie is managed has a trophy species with its size limits. if I'm going to make the commitment to put more time in chasing a trophy I want to do it in a way that makes ME feel like I won that trophy I beat him.
Feed me an Apple ill eat it
Feed me some artificial fruit and I bite into it,,Ill laugh and say "you got me"
Feed me an Apple with poison injected into it and you didn't fool me you didn't best me you simply gave me real food with something hidden inside.
To me sucker fishing is feeding the fish with a hook and I don't want to catch a trophy species that way.
Another example would be turkey hunting shoot em at 30 yds with a shotgun after you worked hard calling them in. Not like out west where you can shoot them with a scoped rifle from 100 yrs away.
Just a preference,,, "nobody's talking about banning sucker fishing"
I hate trolling too,,,but then again I'm having fun "trolling" for an argument here.
No matter how we catch them, in the end we just managed to fool... a FISH.
I don't know about you, but I don't feel all that brilliant when one hits the net despite what I went through to get it there. To me, sucker fishing is just another method by which I might, on any given day, get to hold up a slimy stinky fish for a picture and pretend I accomplished something beyond goofing off all day when there were at least a dozen other far more important things I really should have been doing.
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happy hooker - 11/2/2017 6:57 PM
I use leeches and minnows for walleye because I treat walleye like food I'd drag a net if the dnr let us ,,rather catch a 2 1/2 pounder then a 7 pounder. Get the limit and get out and get them covered in batter and live bait works better for making that fish fry happen and our dnr regs on most lakes see this has a harvest fish.
In Minnesota the muskie is managed has a trophy species with its size limits. if I'm going to make the commitment to put more time in chasing a trophy I want to do it in a way that makes ME feel like I won that trophy I beat him.
Feed me an Apple ill eat it
Feed me some artificial fruit and I bite into it,,Ill laugh and say "you got me"
Feed me an Apple with poison injected into it and you didn't fool me you didn't best me you simply gave me real food with something hidden inside.
To me sucker fishing is feeding the fish with a hook and I don't want to catch a trophy species that way.
Another example would be turkey hunting shoot em at 30 yds with a shotgun after you worked hard calling them in. Not like out west where you can shoot them with a scoped rifle from 100 yrs away.
Just a preference,,, "nobody's talking about banning sucker fishing"
I hate trolling too,,,but then again I'm having fun "trolling" for an argument here.
No matter how we catch them, in the end we just managed to fool... a FISH.
I don't know about you, but I don't feel all that brilliant when one hits the net despite what I went through to get it there. To me, sucker fishing is just another method by which I might, on any given day, get to hold up a slimy stinky fish for a picture and pretend I accomplished something beyond goofing off all day when there were at least a dozen other far more important things I really should have been doing.
What you said makes me think pulling an animal by the face with a string seems silly. |
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Location: E. Tenn | esoxaddict - 11/2/2017 8:16 PM
happy hooker - 11/2/2017 6:57 PM
I use leeches and minnows for walleye because I treat walleye like food I'd drag a net if the dnr let us ,,rather catch a 2 1/2 pounder then a 7 pounder. Get the limit and get out and get them covered in batter and live bait works better for making that fish fry happen and our dnr regs on most lakes see this has a harvest fish.
In Minnesota the muskie is managed has a trophy species with its size limits. if I'm going to make the commitment to put more time in chasing a trophy I want to do it in a way that makes ME feel like I won that trophy I beat him.
Feed me an Apple ill eat it
Feed me some artificial fruit and I bite into it,,Ill laugh and say "you got me"
Feed me an Apple with poison injected into it and you didn't fool me you didn't best me you simply gave me real food with something hidden inside.
To me sucker fishing is feeding the fish with a hook and I don't want to catch a trophy species that way.
Another example would be turkey hunting shoot em at 30 yds with a shotgun after you worked hard calling them in. Not like out west where you can shoot them with a scoped rifle from 100 yrs away.
Just a preference,,, "nobody's talking about banning sucker fishing"
I hate trolling too,,,but then again I'm having fun "trolling" for an argument here.
No matter how we catch them, in the end we just managed to fool... a FISH.
I don't know about you, but I don't feel all that brilliant when one hits the net despite what I went through to get it there. To me, sucker fishing is just another method by which I might, on any given day, get to hold up a slimy stinky fish for a picture and pretend I accomplished something beyond goofing off all day when there were at least a dozen other far more important things I really should have been doing.
That made me blow beer out my nose... and that would be alcohol abuse in my book!!lol
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Location: minocqua, wi. | 1. how long does it take on average for a big musky to eat a sucker and find its way into the net
2. how long does it take for a big king salmon to eat a bait and find its way into the net
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Location: Eastern Ontario | I've never fished with suckers but have nothing against it as long as a quick strike rig is used and fish are not gut hooked. I would have to drive 30 miles to get a $10 sucker and with the money I have invested in lures my wife would have me committed if I did.
Edit: the thing that amazes me is the number of people willing to put down intelligent trolling that are willing to drag a sucker. In Ontario with the exception of the great lakes we are limited to one rod so casting a lure while dragging a sucker is not an option. ( former caster with 74 year old arms,back and shoulders )
Edited by horsehunter 11/3/2017 7:55 AM
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Location: Contrarian Island | Yah Sled. Walking around in the woods w a dog flushing defenseless birds and shooting them with a 12 gauge is so scientific. Classic Sled bs. Where does anyone claim there is science to sucker fishing??
Edited by BNelson 11/3/2017 7:51 AM
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Location: minocqua, wi. | you come to a whistle quicker than a dog ...
nice edit LOL ...
can't get this on television ...
Edited by jonnysled 11/3/2017 7:52 AM
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Location: Contrarian Island | Trolling as usual and missing the mark. |
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Location: minocqua, wi. | first spot of the day and caught one quick ... |
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Location: Contrarian Island | Better than you did salmon fishing I hear. Tell us the science in bird hunting again!!??
Edited by BNelson 11/3/2017 8:01 AM
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Location: minocqua, wi. | always good to know there are people that are more interested in what i do than i am ... |
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Location: Contrarian Island | Looks like I caught one too. |
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Location: Eastern Ontario | I'm not a hunter but love watching a good dog work, be it a flushing dog, retriever, border collie, and best of all my German Sheppard showing the ivory to protect my property. |
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Location: minocqua, wi. | horsehunter - 11/3/2017 8:03 AM
I'm not a hunter but love watching a good dog work, be it a flushing dog, retriever, border collie, and best of all my German Sheppard showing the ivory to protect my property.
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Location: minocqua, wi. | BNelson - 11/3/2017 8:03 AM
Looks like I caught one too.
of course you did ... |
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No such thing has a redheaded Indian??????????????
Your wrong!!!
Sonny Jurgensen is in the hall of fame and played 18 seasons for the Redskins!!!
Edited by happy hooker 11/3/2017 8:24 AM
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Location: Eastern Ontario | My son in law is a member of the Lake Ontario Hunting Retriever Asoc. and I like watching the dogs train and compete. I often considered just going out hunting with him and taking video of the dog but duck hunters endure even worse weather than muskie fishermen at ungodly hours. If I'm driving and see a sign saying sheep dog trials I'm pulled in every time. |
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Location: oswego, il | happy hooker - 11/3/2017 8:22 AM
Todd
No such thing has a redheaded Indian??????????????
Your wrong!!!
Sonny Jurgensen is in the hall of fame and played 18 seasons for the Redskins!!!
Well then go grab that gill net running pizza! |
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Location: Waukesha & Land O Lakes, WI | " if I'm going to make the commitment to put more time in chasing a trophy I want to do it in a way that makes ME feel like I won that trophy I beat him."
When you commit to putting in more time, why limit yourself in methods of fishing that are undoubtedly successful? If I remember correctly, MN only allows 1 line per angler, correct? Then your DNR is forcing you to make a choice on how to fish, WI allows us the ability to use both a sucker and cast and the two are a deadly combination if done correctly. So I can see your point if you have to make that choice. |
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