05-06-2004, 05:31 PM
[cool][blue][size 1]Somebody posted a request a while back for fly patterns that would work for suckers. I am attaching a new experimental pattern I have come up with that should work for either boys or girls...pink and blue.[/size][/blue]
[#0000ff][size 1]Actually, anyone who has ever fished nymphs for trout, in waters with a sucker population, is likely to have taken the occasional sucker. I once caught a huge white sucker, in the snake river in Idaho, by fishing a streamer downstream under some overhanging brush. When he took the fly and headed downstream in the current I was sure I had a big old brown. I whooped and hollered and got a bunch of my relatives to come down and watch the battle. Imagine how embarassed I was when the fish turned out to be about a 5 pound sucker.[/size][/#0000ff]
[#0000ff][size 1]There is a growing population of anglers who are intrigued by the challenge of getting a sucker to slurp a fly. In the upper midwest, they are fished heavily each spring and are prized for their sweet (if bony) flesh. The more successful sucker slickers, who use flies, tend to keep their offerings small, weighted and in dull shades of greens, browns and blacks...like the aquatic insects and crustaceans upon which they feed.[/size][/#0000ff]
[#0000ff][size 1]In Utah, you can sometimes try some sight fishing if you find suckers holding over gravel in shallow water. It makes it easier to place the fly and watch the reaction. Otherwise, the take is pretty much "slurp and spit" without much of a feel to it. If you can watch the take you have a better chance of sticking them. In deeper water you don't have much hope unless you fish with bait.[/size][/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff][size 1]Actually, anyone who has ever fished nymphs for trout, in waters with a sucker population, is likely to have taken the occasional sucker. I once caught a huge white sucker, in the snake river in Idaho, by fishing a streamer downstream under some overhanging brush. When he took the fly and headed downstream in the current I was sure I had a big old brown. I whooped and hollered and got a bunch of my relatives to come down and watch the battle. Imagine how embarassed I was when the fish turned out to be about a 5 pound sucker.[/size][/#0000ff]
[#0000ff][size 1]There is a growing population of anglers who are intrigued by the challenge of getting a sucker to slurp a fly. In the upper midwest, they are fished heavily each spring and are prized for their sweet (if bony) flesh. The more successful sucker slickers, who use flies, tend to keep their offerings small, weighted and in dull shades of greens, browns and blacks...like the aquatic insects and crustaceans upon which they feed.[/size][/#0000ff]
[#0000ff][size 1]In Utah, you can sometimes try some sight fishing if you find suckers holding over gravel in shallow water. It makes it easier to place the fly and watch the reaction. Otherwise, the take is pretty much "slurp and spit" without much of a feel to it. If you can watch the take you have a better chance of sticking them. In deeper water you don't have much hope unless you fish with bait.[/size][/#0000ff]
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