Suckers

[Barbless]

I think the majority of the "Suckers" you will find are Bridgelip Suckers... that's the more gold colored one of the few. 

Did it look like this?

[4Wheelr]

Yep I found a picture of a Bridgelip Sucker that looks just like the one I caught.

I have also caught a Sculpin.  Fine looking fish, that one 

[Chum Man]

i hooked one a couple years ago that hit like a freight train, then jumped a half dozen times before i got it up to the boat.  i have to admit that it was fun while it lasted

[Fast- eddy]

Sometimes one of these guys can save the day and skunking!
I usually throw them back in too. I look at them like a catfish in an aquarium,they clean up all the crud on the bottom.

[Juan de Fuca]

Ya you guys these fish are just like thos dang dolly vardens. eaten all the eggs and baby steelhead and salmon. kill em all i say !!!!

Hmm..........It is funny how some of the healthiest steelhead and salmon runs currently coexist with char. Young Skagit Walker has learn lots, he does.

[Fast- eddy]

Bottom line... to have a healthy river system,you must have all species participating.

[BigCohoTom]

I'm a species !  Can I participate too ?

[Bunker]

Seems to me that the only problem species on our rivers is that god dang human species!

I think if we bashed a few of them in the head our rivers might be a little better off!

[Bunker]

Some kids once told me their the best crayfish bait for traps. They were targeting them on the kalama.


Bunker

[fishpimp]

 i won't kill it unless i am going to eat it.   i throw them back.

as for killing baby salmon and steelhead, i don't think the suckers have much of an impact. i was talking to a biologist on lake washington and he was looking at baby sockeye mortality and  they thought the squawfish were the culprit.  i gave him my opinion  which is the smallmouth and perch  { which lake washington has millions and millions} kill way more then the  squaws do.  just think what the perch,smallies and walleye do on the columbia to all those salmon and steelhead smolt. i bet they kill way more then the cormorants and squaws combined.  sorry i'm a little off topic, just started rambling

[dardevle]

I would think a bass would get his mouth around a smolt much easier than a bottom feeding sucker.  Those bass hit almost anything that moves.

[Sturzman]

I would think a bass would get his mouth around a smolt much easier than a bottom feeding sucker.  Those bass hit almost anything that moves.

Depends on where each species is though. A friend of mine just finished a thesis that found smallmouth bass in Lake Whatcom don't prey on Kokanee fry. The info I've seen suggests that Sockeye/Kokanee fry spend more time in the limnetic zone in lakes, whereas bass are closer to shore.

[Bunker]

i won't kill it unless i am going to eat it.   i throw them back.

as for killing baby salmon and steelhead, i don't think the suckers have much of an impact. i was talking to a biologist on lake washington and he was looking at baby sockeye mortality and  they thought the squawfish were the culprit.  i gave him my opinion  which is the smallmouth and perch  { which lake washington has millions and millions} kill way more then the  squaws do.  just think what the perch,smallies and walleye do on the columbia to all those salmon and steelhead smolt. i bet they kill way more then the cormorants and squaws combined.  sorry i'm a little off topic, just started rambling

I believe they were talking about eggs being consumed by suckers and smolt and fry being consumed by northen pikeminnows. I kill pikeminnow no matter where I catch them.

[curado]

they are really bad at the mouth of the wallace river. 1 day for steelhead i landed bout 12 or 13 of them

[queets guy]

The way my last few outing have been going, running into a giant pod of sucker might not be half bad....