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k so me and my boyfriend were fishing at strawberry like 2 weeks ago and we seen these striped fish swimming around. There must have been 20 of them. We finally caught one, it was really weird looking. Well we found out its a june sucker. I didn't know they get white stripes while they are spawning and the males get a red stripe too.
Last week we went to scofield and we saw the same lookin fish...way smaller, but a bunch of them swimmin by the dam.
I just wanna know why are there june suckers in strawberry and scofield, and does everybody else know this already?
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I have a strong hunch you caught and saw Utah Suckers, rather than June Suckers.
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The likley hood of it being a June sucker is good because [#ff0000]THEY ALL SPAWN IN[/#ff0000] [#ff0000]JUNE !!,[/#ff0000] just my frustration with the June Sucker thing. In all truth, what you caught is just a plain ol mountain sucker, but they are pretty. Mt. Suckers are in pretty much all of our lakes, streams, and ponds. The markings on yours are a bit more pronounced than most. Good job.
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Iike said you got a good old sucker or Utah sucker....They make great food for all the other fish that are in the lakes they live in...
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oh ok. well i kinda feel dumb now. i just thought it was a june sucker cuz i looked it up on hogle zoos website and the fish in there pic looked exactly the same but ya im not very good at the whole computer thing so your probably right.
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Brandee, don't feel dumb. I doubt that most biologists could tell the difference if you put several together and asked them to pick the Junnie out. Like Cliff said, they provide lots of good eats for the other fishies. You just keep making that boyfriend take you fishing and you keep catching.
