36lb flathead caught yesterday

I’m ready! Hopefully I’ll find some suckers while trout fishing this week end…Flatty bait is hard to find right now.

Hey Dark – A word of caution, I was also going to be looking for chubs on a local trout stream. I ran across this on page 27 of the Minnesota Fishing Regulations under Stream Trout Regulations. “Taking minnows or leeches from designated trout waters, except under special permit, is prohibited.” I had this perfect spot for chubs but it is in a designated trout stream, I guess I will have to scratch it from my list of bait spots. Getting flathead bait keeps getting harder and harder.

Ya, I’m aware of that. There are plenty of “non-designated” areas that hold bait fish if you want them alive. I think its legal to keep suckers if you want too as long as they are dead. A big “rearranged” sucker would work for flathead bait right now anyway. I wonder how hard it would be to get a special permit to catch n keep live ones?