The ever-popular sucker. (fish) (Column)

Sports Afield | April 1, 1993| | Copyright

Whoever called the sucker a "trash fish" doesn't know the sucker. Not only is it a gamefish with a huge fan club, it's the fish that caused many little fishermen to become big fishermen for a lifetime.

Maybe the sucker isn't the prettiest fish in the stream, with its vacuumlike mouth that sucks up aquatic insect larvae, crustaceans, mollusks and algae from the bottom. But it's not particularly unattractive, either. In fact, the male is quite colorful during the spring spawning season.

Suckers are not related to carp or catfish. They are a family of their ...

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