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Location: The desert | Hey guys,
I have never tried sucker fishing yet and my buddy and I are thinking about going out and giving it a whirl this weekend. How do we rig up suckers? What do we do with the reel? Drag? Does it matter what way we set the hook or when we set it? What is a good rig to pick up?
Lastly, does anyone in the Point area know where we can get some suckers and what are good sizes to use. We will be on a more numbers lake rather than a trophy lake. Thanks for the help!
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Location: Stevens Point, WI | Mike, I can help you with all of your questions if you would like. Give me a call or we can talk over lunch this week if you get time! |
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Location: Stevens Point | The bait shop buy the nunary sells suckers, I think they are two bucks a pop. they keep them in a tank out back. Talk to you tomorrow about your action lake.  |
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If you are going to be in a boat here is what I have had the most success with. Turn your clicker on on your reel and you can keep your drag pretty tight. Let your reel free spool but set your tension on your spool tight enough so that your sucker will not pull line out. I like to use the Musky Mania Quick Strike Rigs. You use a rubber band system through the suckers nostrils and then attach trebils from your leader (Pictures are on the boxes) Anyway I have had the most luck keeping a treble on each side of the sucker one towards to suckers back, and one lower towards the belly. I try to keep one relatively close to the suckers head and one about mid body as they tend to take the sucker close to the head and you want your sucker to have good action in the water so avoid getting hooks near their tail fin. When you get one to take it I like to use my trolling motor to run right over top of the fish, once there set the hooks as HARD AS YOU CAN up and in the opposite direction the fish is moving. Hang on!!!!!
Let me know if this helps, I would be more than happy to answer more questions or get into more details.
Tony
Edited by asteffes 11/1/2006 6:57 PM
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Location: Sherry, WI | Going on a mission, are we? |
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Location: The Sportsman, home, or out on the water | I doubt Pointer is going to MN to fish that lake.
Pointer, I make my own versitle sucker rigs, and needles, and you can score one for free. the rest will cost you snaps and swivels. Check your PM's.
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Location: Northern Wisconsin | put a rubber band through the suckers nose and then put the ruber band on a quick strike rig. |
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Location: The desert | Thanks for the help guys.....Rob I sent you a message.
Mission? Never heard of it. I'll be on an area of the WI River.
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