I'm just curious as to how states like MN and WI can tolerate the use of suckers as live bait whereas, except for a couple of eastern rivers, they are illegal in ND. Anyone have facts or opinions to share?
I'm just curious as to how states like MN and WI can tolerate the use of suckers as live bait whereas, except for a couple of eastern rivers, they are illegal in ND. Anyone have facts or opinions to share?
You can use them on the Red River. Some small lakes and dams in ND are prone to white sucker overpopulation so they have been made illegal. If you want to use bigger bait in ND besides the Red, you need to get creek chubs.
how does one get creek chubs in winter? I have my non winter creek chub spots, but I’m curious if there is a way to get them in winter.
I've never understood GNF stance on the use of sucker minnows in certain waters. Just because they don't want them in a smaller lake doesn't mean we shouldn't be allowed to use them in larger lakes and reservoirs where they already exist and have never been an issue. Creek chubs are too hard to get and keep. Just more feel good crap from the department IMO.
If one could find some crawlers could you catch them under a bobber in the creeks that don't freeze?
My vast experience of exactly once ;:stirthepot) fishing Turtle River State Park was that creek chubs were an every-cast deal on a crawler chunk hung shallow under a bobber.
how does one get creek chubs in winter? I have my non winter creek chub spots, but I’m curious if there is a way to get them in winter.