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| Anyone try red horse for bait instead of suckers? Suckers are hard to come by. Assuming you can comply with trasport rules, do they work? |
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Location: northern indiana | Trout work better. |
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| I used a palamino once. Didn't work so well. |
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Location: La Crosse, WI | Guest - 9/29/2011 3:24 PM
I used a palamino once. Didn't work so well.
+1 (I'll admit it, had to look it up on google) |
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Location: Hayward, WI | Redhorse will work, but they go belly up really fast if you don't have an aerator on them. If they don't get eaten in an hour or two while dragging them around, they usually go belly up. They're a lot weaker than white suckers. I caught a 41 incher on a 17" redhorse on Tuesday.
Edited by muskymatt 9/29/2011 4:01 PM
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Location: Minocqua, WI | muskymatt - 9/29/2011 4:00 PM
Redhorse will work, but they go belly up really fast if you don't have an aerator on them.
Agreed. They require lots of oxygen.
Another thing is that certain redhorse species are also either threatened, endangered, or protected fish species in many areas of the country (River Redhorse for example). Be best to know your fish ID. |
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| What about bullhead as live bait? |
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Location: Probably Minnesota that time... | I'm not much of a live bait guy, but I do know the muskies in many a system are quite fond of them. " You want to catch a muskie up there on the System, you best find yourself chuckin' the ole' redhorse pattern." -Ned Meyers |
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| I have caught some walleye and smallmouth using small REDHORSE in the 3-6" range. I catch them in a minnow trap in the rivers and use them for bait on jigs and slip bobbers. they do die rather quickly---I DIDN"T Know that they might be protected---guess i better look into that before I catch and use them again---I did this in a pretty populated area where I have been checked by the Game Warden many times. WOW -- Lucky I guess---but will definately look into that. Never tried any larger redhorse but if legal I might give it a whirl. |
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Location: Maple Grove, MN | Red Horses for bait? And I thought I was thinking big when using a poodle for bait. How about downsizing and just trying a pony?
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| Herb, someone mentioned you by name in the "most annoying things in the boat" thread, just in case you misssed it. |
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Red Horse for Bait