SUCKERS?
Often overlooked or scoffed at suckers have a bad reputation. I think this is not deserved!
We trout fishermen don't spend much time thinking about other fish unless they are exotic or in far flung places especially places where flip flops and shorts are the dress code.
But it is worth noting some of the interesting things that are occurring here in our backyard right now in the spring.
Maybe not worth it from an angling perspective but it definitely is from a spectacle observing perspective.
Along with the trout species that are spring spawners our local suckers are running up the creeks in quantities that could be compared to a salmon run.
Which is pretty cool to witness no matter you opinion of the lowly sucker.
And this got us interested.
What follows is the result of us sucking up some information to satisfy that curiosity.