carp?

[land shark]

Sarge
I agree about the bad rap, we have stream suckers here that require better water quality than trout need to survive. Many a time as a kid in the spring we ventured forth as a family to gather buckets full. The bag was usaully turned into a verity of tasty foods by my Mom. She would can them,make patties. Dad loved em smoked and she packed them in olive oil like sardines. more than one camping trip for trout found the morning filled with suckers and pancakes over the open fire.

I guess as I mastered the fly rod I just plain forgot about my past.

jim

 

[Fondueset]

I read sucker is sometimes marketed as 'mullet'.
Spearfishing laws in Michigan are ridiculous. Lake trout are practically the bane of the great lakes and not at all easy to get close too - yet from the laws you'd think divers might hunt them to extinction. Same with Salmon. I wish they'd get a separate set of laws on the books for freedive spearos.