We run a very similar setup but IMHO metal halide lights are supreme to all others for water penetration. LED don’t penetrate as much. A buddy and I worked with a couple local gig makers over the years to get a design of a 4-pronged gig that is cut via water jet versus forged out of hay forks like in the past. Wish we would have patented it but didn’t. I like a longer shank then showing the video for when the redhorse start running. Less drag.

Where can you purchase the gigs used in the video?

Keith

are the suckers running anywhere yet??

I'd rate them as so-so. There are much better fish to eat than suckers, IMO. They rank pretty far down on my list of good eating fish.

They've been running by me in the Cattaraugus Crick ever since the ice went out a few weeks ago

I have been checking my local creeks every 2-3 days here. No fish yet, but when the run kicks into high gear I will be spearing a good mess to can. They are great tasting fish and both fry and bake well. The meat it white, firm, and tasty..........but the "Y" bones turn most folks off. I like to gut a fresh one, fill it with onion slices and butter and toss it in the coals after wrapping it in tin foil. Great camping food!

There are much Bettah choices ..Yuck

All depends on water quality. The clear cooler water north of the Saginaw Valley watershed where I live, produces a lot better tasting sucker. The suckers J Morse speaks of are of that kind of water are way better tasting fish than mine. Hard to even compare!

I like em. I fry em whole.

yes, cold water produces better fish all around

They are running down in Menominee

Dont eat them anymore Bottom feeder

There are a thousand different ways to prepare suckers, none better then the next. That's why it's been tried so many ways.

I only eat them smoked

When I lived in the Missouri Ozarks , we'd snag ( some called it 'grabbing') in the spring and speared them in the fall/winter. Filet and score them and then into hot grease on the gravel bar. Best fish I've ever had.

I don’t think I have ever seen a sucker fish. Heard of them just never seen one