Good looking fish there. Cool to see a northern hog out of that area. Nice report, thanks for sharing.

Jared’s fish in question is a hybrid for sure. Half Green Sunfish and half Pumpkinseed would be my most educated guess.

They are a great sport fish, for those who choose to fish for them. But as for stocking them in lakes, I dont think we will ever have to worry about that. They do stock grass carp in lakes down south to control vegetation overgrowth, mostly in private ponds and golf course ponds though I bet.

The thing about this roughfish forum here is that we love to catch them. We think of these “roughfish” much like most game fishermen think of walleye or bass. We promote catch and release, not shoot and discard. Heck, some of us here even harvest roughfish to eat. Just thinking about some of that smoked carp and redhorse outdoors4life did up not too long ago get my mouth watering. It may sound crazy to most of you, but they are quite tasty.

The whole problem here is this, these bow-fishing guys come on here and interupt serious talk with smart a$$ remarks about shooting our target fish. I get sick of seeing it too, just like these guys. This is why there are two seperate forums, one for roughfish anglers, and one for roughfish shooters. The two just cant co-exist, there will always be problems. I browse the bow-fishing forum and dont tell them guys they should fish with a rod and reel.

Every fish has an fan out there. Thats just the world we live in now. Folks are more educated now, not everything with sucker lips is a carp anymore. The world is a changing place. Roughfishing and species fishing is taking off in a big way. Someday there will be harsh restrictions for bow-fishermen. Its only a matter of time. As fish like the Blue Sucker, River Redhorse, Greater Redhorse, and Black Redhorse continue to drop in numbers, bow-fishing will be examined and questioned, and likely restricted in a lot of areas..

Let the big ones go! Keep the ones under 10 lbs. Anything eaten over 10 lbs has been proven to shrink a mans junk and also cause it to fall off. You will also start to lactate like a lady if your not careful. They found these facts to be true when 100 men were studied that consumed large flatheads, especially in Iowa..

I focus on deep bends in the river, places where tribtaries dump in, and snag piles. Trial and error and lots of time on the river will be your best way of figuring out your section of water. Most of us on here probably have our “go to spots”, spots that have taken us years to find and figure out. Good luck out there!

I dont think corn will kill fish, not any species of any size. That sounds like an old wives tale or something.

The carpmanjake question was just out of curiousity.

Cool stuff Mike! The Goonch are very cool. Good luck out there!

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not sure where it is in the regs. fish can not digest corn

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SO thats why we see dead carp on the shore all the time? They must be all stopped up with corn eh? Jeesh, last time I checked, I couldn’t digest corn either…………..

coletrain, are you also known as carpmanjake?

Always looking for tips. I dont know anyone who has caught one on live bait…

Yeah man, we’ll be chasing them in no time eh? Me and Aaron might give them a shot in a week or two. For the mean time, just keep catching all them cool species over there, and we’ll keep trying to unlock the code of the Blue Sucker. This might be the year???

These are spawning White Suckers. As you can see, the colors are very similar to the underwater pics you took. I still think they are Whites, just my opinion…

Couple more pics here. Was this the species you were catching? See how the mouth is much different from the more common White Sucker. This is what a typical Longnose Sucker would look like in your area in full spawning colors…

My first Northern Hogsucker of the year…

I do believe they are just White Suckers in their full spawning colors. They don’t look like Longnose Suckers, but they could be. Was the mouth similar to a Sturgeon? Also, is this body of water connected to one of the great lakes? I dont know where Peshtigo is. We should be able to identify with these two bits of info…

Awesome fish buddy! Nice and clean looking critter too.

I caught this Mirror yesterday, along with one other Common. I was fishing the edge of flooded grass on the Cannon River. Fishing was pretty slow in general, but this fish put a smile on my face. First open water fish of 2010!

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Their all just Flathead bait, right Pug?

You should join us on the Croix for the annual nt-fishing “sucker” fishing extravaganza. You would have a blast.

The channels and neck down areas around Wells and Cannon lakes might be worth a try. The dams in Faribault will probably be pretty tough to fish with the water being this high, but if you can find any current breaks, you may have some luck there as well. When the water is this high and fast, slack water and current breaks probably hold the majority of the fish, especially this time of year when metabolisms and energy are low, and the water is extremley cold from all this melt run off.

It sure looks like another Greater to me as well. The Rum is known to be full of them, from what I’ve read. I’ve caught one out of the Rum, it was in the Cambridge area. They seem to be more of a common catch when the water cools in the late fall. Heres a few I have caught over the past few years for comparison…

Yup, its me Mike. Thanks for the welcome. I’m a long time lurker of this site, I’ll contribute what I can now.

Yup, right on Ryan. Silver Redhorse

Minnesota River Drum

Then they were more than likely Greaters without a doubt. Very few River Redhorse in the Rum. Also, the tails upper lobe is rounded, indicating this is a Greater as well. River Redhorse will always have a sharp point to the upper tail fin lobe. Those are some nice ones. Congrats! Greater Redhorse are a pretty rare species in the state of MN now.

I’d say its a Greater Redhorse as well. Care to share the body of water it was caught out of? That may eliminate the chance of it being a River Redhorse just by knowing where it was caught.