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| How is the sucker supply in the Hayward area this year? Any comments on availability? Size? Thanks. |
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Location: Madison, WI | From what I heard yesterday, very limited. I know of some people getting them from Happy Hooker but they didnt have much. It sounded like Hayward Bait was going to be getting some in and I heard that a few days ago. Definately call before you go because as was the case last year, as soon as they were there, they were gone. Last year we went to Happy Hooker and they had 2 left, some guys had come in 15 minutes prior and bought 40 of them. As we were walking out with the last 2, there were two more groups coming in trying to get some. Those guys had been to Spooner, Hayward, Winter, and nothing.
Call around and if they have them, dont assume they will be there 2 hours from then. |
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Location: Hudson, WI | I bought some on Friday and Saturday at D and B Bait on Cty Rd. B. They were perfect size, but we were waiting for the bait truck at 7 with two other groups. They sold out pretty quick. |
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Location: Madtown, WI | Can somebody explain to me why there is such a shortage? I've heard a lot of different reasons but my new theory is it's that guy who comes in and buys 40 of them at once. Seems like when you go to the well known shops, they are all out but when you hit the Bait Shop X they didn't even know there was a shortage.
Edited by PerfectFromNowOn 10/12/2011 5:30 PM
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| Perfect,
I wonder the same thing. In MN there is always a shortage until Dec. 1. After december 1, you can go to most bait shops in central and northern MN and literally have tanks of "decoy" suckers from 10-20" for sale. Makes no sense at all. |
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| B420 - 10/12/2011 6:15 PM
Perfect,
I wonder the same thing. In MN there is always a shortage until Dec. 1. After december 1, you can go to most bait shops in central and northern MN and literally have tanks of "decoy" suckers from 10-20" for sale. Makes no sense at all.
Could it be that the season is closed then and nobody is buying them????
They're hard to get during the season because for the wholesalers that supply the bait shops they're harder to come by than most bait to begin with, they can't deliver a couple thousand of them to the bait shops at a time like crappie minnows, bait shops don't have tons of room for 15 to 20 inch "bait" in their tanks.....and nearly everyone is using them when the time is right.....these words were straight out of the mouth of the shop owner where I got some 2 days ago.
What is totally insane is how much they get for these freckin' things!!!! A good day on the water could cost you well over 100 bucks just in bait if not more.....all for fish we let go. Who's the sucker?  |
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Location: Madtown, WI | B420, haha.
Before the whole VHS scare a few years ago, I don't recall having a problem finding suckers and they were $3 per. Now I hear they are going for $8 a pop and you must call 5 bait shops ahead of time to even have a chance of getting an 8 incher!
Are there less fish farms? Tougher for guys to trap them? VHS testing expensive? That many more guys fishing? Or am I making this all up and there always has been a sucker shortage in October?
Like I said before, it seems like guys are buying up the whole delivery now-a-days just to make sure they have some. The bait shop is then out of suckers until next shipment and now everybody else is scared they won't get any, so they overbuy too. Maybe I'm full of it.....
Edited by PerfectFromNowOn 10/12/2011 6:57 PM
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| Shoot,
The point I was trying to make is they don't have any or "can't" get any when people actually use them to fish muskies. Then magically the day muskie closes they are in every bait shop in central and northern MN. I would just like to know how none can be avialble in Oct. and Nov, then Dec. rolls around and they are everywhere?
The bait shop 1/2 mile from house "can't" get any right now. When dec. 1 rolls around the tanks will be plum full. They are sitting empty no so any wholesalers looking to make a buck please hit the Brainerd area!!
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Location: Sawyer County, WI | OK, so if I can't get a couple of suckers at my local bait shops, how about rigging a perch/crappie/bluegill on a quick strike (where legal, of course) ? Has anybody had any luck with this approach ? |
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Location: Hudson, WI | If there's no minimum size on that particular lake, my old man throws every pike he catches under 18" on a quick strike immediately.
My brother caught a 42 on Sand in Hayward this year on a rigged up perch, Dan.
Edited by Moltisanti 10/13/2011 8:43 AM
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| Plenty of them at D&B’s Saturday the 8th. Man we lost a nice fish on one too. Tried those Clip-n-go rigs and they’re really nice |
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| They've been easy enough to find so far, heard from one shop owner it's going to change now.
http://www.jimstroedefishing.com |
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Sucker Supplies in Hayward