Tilapia as bait?

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"Out of curiosity, has anyone ever caught a June sucker? Circumstances?"

[#0000FF]Never caught any in June...but I did catch one in January...through the ice at Lincoln Beach. See pic.[/#0000FF]
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[#0000FF]Back in my earliest days on Utah Lake and the lower Provo River there were grundles of suckers in the river right after the walleye spawn...May into June. I suspect most were Utah suckers but I didn't check their ID. I would simply catch a couple and then move downstream a ways to the first deeper holes. There I would cut chunks from the sides of the suckers and proceed to catch upriver channel cats as fast as I could get the bait in the water.[/#0000FF]
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[#0000FF]I also discovered that channel cats loved the gobs of Velveeta cheese I soaked for the big browns and bows that drifted downstream to the lower end of the Provo during the winter and were catchable in the early spring.
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[#0000FF]In those days there were also lots of "salmon fly" larvae (hellgramites) in the river and the cats chowed down on them too. Couldn't begin to count how many cats I caught on big stone fly nymphs and a fly rod in the slow runs of the lower Provo.
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