Aside from a quick outing tomorrow for my annual trout harvest, today was going to constitute the majority of my fishing for the weekend. Unfortuinately, I had some other obligations to meet today, so I only spent about 3 hours on the water. Good thing, since I ran out of a dozen crawlers by then.

The silvers are still going pretty good right now. This fish had some nicely developed tubercles










Golden Redhorse



Buffalo



I caught another beast buffalo. I didn't get a chance to take a photo holding the fish, The fish decided to swim away after I got out the hook and went to grab it for a pose. At least I got one with it still in the water.



Here's my catch of the day:



Never thought I'd catch a clam on a wet fly....

Great fish Deadhead. Looks like a total blast.

Gotta love how each and every golden releaves itself all over everything.

They do seem to do that more than any other fish I have caught!

I have caught clams on a hook with bait but i would have never expected them to be caught on a Fly

yeah no kidding. how true!


hey pumpkinfisher, glad to see you've joined us over here. Welcome to FM!

here are a few fly caught suckers from yesterday

DEADhead.great action and great sucker images!....I've been going to the St.Louis River up here (annual ritual of spring thing each year) and have been catching quite a few suckers myself.....I usually catch more redhorse then the "other" species(whites?) I think...here's a few pics from this weekends catch....all catch and release of course....I noticed the coloration on your suckers in the photos are different then in mine(the ones you have have white below the mouth and a darker"stripe" down the sides....just wondering what species I've actually have here.....I have caught the suckers you have pictured on another river.....just curious I guess


caught a bunch of these guys saturday,anybody know what species this one is?...ID!





and sunday.... again ID?

Deadhead,

The whites you catch are really dark!

Looks like good bait to me!! Man, if I can't buy suckers like that anywhere

I love the color those whities take on during the spawn. They are quite a unique fish.

Thanks DeadHead. I have been a lurker for month or so. i just figureed i should join.

jonny, you've got some white suckers. nice catches!



yeah, the fish are darker due to their spawning coloration, plus the water is slightly stained from the tannins coming out of the tamarac bogs upstream. Makes for some cool coloration. I know Tyler commented on the coloration of those suckers coming from that stretch of river last year.

Some more photos from this afternoon to share. Fish were taken on a size 10 golden ghost, except for the last fish.








Proof that even spawning suckers will take some meat. This fish took a size 4 clouser minnow!

Great Thread DH!

Keep'em roll'in dude.

I've got to stay on the fish while they're still in the streams to spawn. Not too much longer and they'll be gone around here.