I got my first northern hog a few weeks ago! I love suckers, they fight like a pissed off wolverine, and you can make a better-tasting Baltimore crab cake with redhorse than you can with Chesapeake Bay blue crabs…..
I want a pair… I’ve been getting into microfishing lately and could really use these!
When my leg heals from the injury I’m dealing with, then I’ll try to get more…
Tuesday, I got 3 redhorse. I’m starting to figure them out.
I got my first white sucker this morning! 
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for me, the whole thing is fishy. i hate the brewers but alot of things don’t add up. i could totally believe that the sample was tampered with.
The sample was left unprotected for 2 days.
Tampering with something like that would just take a minute or 7.
[Quote]They don’t make a big enough binder for the amount of plastics I have.
I have that problem too. I have them all in a big duffel bag.
Only once in my lifetime has it been possible to icefish in Virginia. Pigeon Forge is about 150 miles farther south than where I am.
On my next trip I will try a curlytailed grub on a jighead and hope it works. There’s a nice hole behind the next hotel downstream!
I was born near Bristol (Abingdon, 13 miles to the north), grew up near Martinsville (Ferrum, 30 minutes north), and now live an hour from Bristol. I can’t stand NASCAR! The traffic it generates really sucks sometimes!
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Get a boat otherwise you probably will be huckin lures for years without a musky. Or I’d just book a guide for a date in November. That’ll be your best option at getting one.
There’s no muskie guides down here. It’s Virginia. Most everybody down here just guides for bass, catfish, stripers, and trout. Occasionally you’ll see a crappie guide, but I can’t recall ever hearing of a guide specializing in the toothy predators (muskie, gar, pike, walleye, sauger) that are here in good numbers.
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Be some nice healthy water wolves until the salmonids run out. Weird that pike and trout would be managed together in a pond
I’m not sure why anybody thought that was a good idea… It’s Bark Camp Lake in Virginia, if anybody wants to Google it. There’s not a *huge* population of waterwolves there, but some big ones do show up occasionally. A friend of a friend caught a 37″ specimen in ’10.
My favorite thing about said lake is that most of the stocked trout are brookies, so that crazy Mexican I fish with gets to really show off his mettle as a chef when we get back from there.
3 bucks? I’ll make that deal all day long, any day!
Were they caught at the Pout-O-Rama?
We do have freshwater drum out here, but only in a couple of rivers. I’ve never caught one, but I am hopeful that this is the year!
I haven’t eaten carp but Tóño swears by it. I trust the man from the state whose name is a Náhuatl word meaning “possessor of lotsa fish”. He’s from the state of Michoacán. I’ve eaten several other fish he’s prepared and it’s always good. He single-handedly made me a fish-eater.
I grew up in a predominantly black neighborhood in a very rural part of Virginia. Most of my neighbors (of all colors) kept every fish they caught because they were poor. Carp and suckers were prized because of the lack of size and creel limits.
Now I have a family, so I like having the ability to provide fish for the table (my wife is Brasilian, and they’re obsessive fish eaters) when we feel the need… I also fish with a chef from Mexico who loves to work with rough fish…
Down here they get made into crabcakes minus the crab. They’re quite good!
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Go get ’em! Post pics of those exotic East Coast suckers for us!
I’m hoping to be able to do that… Mastery of suckers would make it much easier to catch 200 species…
It’d take some kinda idiot to want to steal my identity….. It sucks when it happens though!
And I can’t believe Reaction Innovations hasn’t done the FN Jerk line yet…
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We can’t help if you don’t start by telling us what you are doing.
Usually I’m drifting nightcrawlers & mealworms through the head of a pool, where I know there are hogsuckers, redhorse, and white suckers (and in some streams torrent suckers, rustyside suckers, and creek chubsuckers). I’ll use a little weight, but not so much that it won’t look natural, and usually 8-pound line because of the bruiser trout and bass in these areas.
If you can’t get the Tostitos stuff, I can tell you how to make your own. A lot of the big grocery stores will have Mexican melting cheese (I get mine at Sprawl-Mart) that you can melt in a saucepan on low heat. Pour in a little cream when it starts to melt, it’s amazing.
(The things you learn when you fish with Mexican chefs…)
I gotta say, I really enjoyed that game. I don’t like New England, and Ahmad Bradshaw lives in my area (about 2 hours up the road from me in Bluefield,VA/WV, and his high school team is called the G-Men). I’ve been a supporter of the Giants since they drafted Tiki Barber years ago (he’s also local and played against my high school in football, basketball, and several other sports).
http://nas.er.usgs.gov/queries/factsheet.aspx?SpeciesID=830 I stand corrected, and I have the cajones to admit it.
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That thing would eat our walleyes here. How bout transporting some of those across the seas… better than a dam Asian Carp or Devil fish…
It’s been tried but they didn’t really get established. Personally, much to the dismay of a lot of bass/walleye/trout snobs, I don’t like to see new species introduced where they aren’t native, but that’s just me. If I manage to get to Europe to fish for zeds, I’ll do it, but we don’t really need them here.
There are 5 rods in the closet where I store my gear. There’s a 6′ baitcaster (power finesse, catfishing), a 6’6″ baitcaster (worming, topwater, swimbaits), a 6’6′ spinning (mostly wacky-rigging), a 7′ spinning (pier/bottom fishing in the salt), and an 8′ flyrod. That covers most of what I do, though I have my eye on a 7’11” baitcaster for swimbaits and a 9′ spinning rod for micro species.
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Pay no attention to RRR pyromaniac. He hasn’t had his liquid personality yet.
I know the type. Tóño the Mexican gets like that sometimes too.
As for the soup, well, my wife is a city girl who doesn’t eat stuff like that. In ’09, the first time she tried it, it took us 20 minutes of convincing before she’d let us put a bowl in front of her. She ate 3 bowls.
A friend of mine just took up fishing 9 months ago, and he got 11 last year. My goal is to get him to 25 or 30, and to get myself to 70 this year.
They all came out great! I could see fish going after all of them.
Yep, thought it was cool elsewhere, and I still think it’s pretty sweet! I’ve seen hogsuckers (northern and Roanoke) my whole life but never been able to catch one, so I’m living vicariously here…
Congrats!
