This time of year…Suckers/Bullheads/Other?

  • Brian Klawitter
    Keymaster
    Minnesota/Wisconsin Mississippi River
    Posts: 59994
    July 26, 2011 at 10:04 pm #1222377

    What are you having the best luck with?

    Me? Suckers 8-10 inches seem to out produce the bullheads.

    ‘course I haven’t used Creek Chubs or the other options.

    phigs
    Twin Cities, MN
    Posts: 1046
    July 26, 2011 at 10:07 pm #983980

    Cut creek chub/sucker and live bullys

    mfreeman451
    Posts: 543
    July 26, 2011 at 11:52 pm #983990

    What about nightcrawlers? And maybe instead of putting a gob of them on your hook, (which you should also try), maybe try fishing it in a worm harness setup like you would for walleyes or bass? I don’t think there is really a fish in the water that would turn down a worm if you put it near the fish, in ideal conditions anyways..

    I grew up fishing with chubs and crawlers on the Minnesota with my Dad and we always caught lots of fish.

    Anyone having luck finding big chubs? A lot of people I know are only getting small ones.

    Whiskerkev
    Madison
    Posts: 3835
    July 27, 2011 at 12:21 pm #984090

    Sonny’s blood has been working for me.

    sauger
    Hastings ,MN
    Posts: 2442
    July 27, 2011 at 2:38 pm #984163

    Striped tube socks filled with ground pig fetus

    Tom P.
    Whitehall Wi.
    Posts: 3532
    July 27, 2011 at 3:18 pm #984190

    Quote:

    Striped tube socks filled with ground pig fetus

    Ground pig fetus not a problem but where did you get the stripped tube socks?

    malomike
    River Falls, WI
    Posts: 148
    July 27, 2011 at 3:50 pm #984202

    Quote:

    Sonny’s blood has been working for me.

    I’ve been having trouble finding fish with Sonny’s lately, however chubs have been a decent go-to.

    -Mike

    yellowdog
    Alma Wi
    Posts: 1303
    July 27, 2011 at 5:36 pm #984252

    Down here suckers are the most popular for live bait and the stinkbait guys are going for secret 7 over other baits almost 2 to 1. Its starting to smell like the back of BK’s truck around here.

    Brian Klawitter
    Keymaster
    Minnesota/Wisconsin Mississippi River
    Posts: 59994
    July 27, 2011 at 5:50 pm #984257

    What were you doing in the back of my truck??

    sauger
    Hastings ,MN
    Posts: 2442
    July 27, 2011 at 6:31 pm #984275

    Installing your new rainbow sticker you bought from pug

    cat-stevens
    Rochester,MN
    Posts: 449
    July 27, 2011 at 7:00 pm #984282

    As usual, another post on the cat board gone to the dark side.

    cat-stevens
    Rochester,MN
    Posts: 449
    July 27, 2011 at 7:02 pm #984284

    Bye the way, in case anyone cares, I’m still having pretty good luck with bullheads

    Brian Klawitter
    Keymaster
    Minnesota/Wisconsin Mississippi River
    Posts: 59994
    July 27, 2011 at 7:05 pm #984286

    I do!

    Picking up any size?

    cat-stevens
    Rochester,MN
    Posts: 449
    July 27, 2011 at 7:11 pm #984289

    The bullheads, or the cats?
    JK, nothing big since early July. I am going to try and bring out a few suckers with this coming weekend and run one or two rods with them just to see if it will make a difference.

    I have been using bullys in the 6″ to 8″ range though.

    Brian Klawitter
    Keymaster
    Minnesota/Wisconsin Mississippi River
    Posts: 59994
    July 27, 2011 at 7:30 pm #984295

    I have a 4 day fishing weekend coming up. I doubt I’ll get your way, but keep me posted. I seldom return txts with company in the boat, but I do get to them sometime in the night/morning.

    swollen-goat
    Nicolet County
    Posts: 222
    July 27, 2011 at 9:41 pm #984338

    The MN is under 12′ in Mankato, so we will try them all this weekend and report any results. We actually got a few runs last week so the bite is improving, but that’s not saying much.

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