Name of the species White Sucker - [#000000]weight 5 pounds 12 ounces (5.73lb)[/#ff0000] - Date caught** April 1st 2004** - City and state caught Commerce Twp Michigan
The State Record for this Species is 7 pounds 3 ounces. The holder of this record is Tim Engler at 22.5 inches in lenth, was caught on 4-15-1995 at 4 pm out of the Kalamazoo River in Allegan County Michigan [left]The minimum size for Master Angler entry for this species is if caught and released is 20 inches and if caught and kept goes by a weight and that is a minum of 3 pounds 0 ounces[/left] This fish was positivily Identified as a master angler entry by the Department of Natural Resources Lovinia Michigan April 1st 2004 worthy of going in the michigan record books for white suckers caught in the state of michigan for 2004 and as an entry I will receive a patch to sew on to my vest.This big sucker was caught in the rain using a werm that was picked up off the ground from spring’s first worm rain.
good luck AL hope ya get him in the net… the monster I chased last year avoided me untill ice season this last winter when we met face to face on a 2 pound test line with a knot in it.
this old pike is on my list this year again… hopin to hook up with him soon.
this entry is 37 inches in lenth, weight to be determined by registered scale.
I now have met 40% of my goal for this year… (2 of 5 masterangler entries for 2004) any one else want to get in on the action and meet at next years pratical sportsman fishing award show in bath michigan?
lets show o’l Fred trost that Bigfishtackle rules!!!
hey last year the local news had a story about one . it was about 7 inches long and washed up on shore of one of the big lakes , local residents had never seen one . they had a dnr biologist come in to identify it .
yep , common long nose gar !
your gar will be top dog in the 16 species freshwater division for sure ! howed you get him in without it snapping your line ? those things sure like to roll over a lot when you’ve got them hooked .
there are only two places that i know of where a person could go to have a very good chance at hooking into one of these gars . one is the backwaters at flatrock , the average size is around 24" . the second is in lake erie out behind the cole power plant in monroe . the average size is 3 to 5+ feet in length .
truley these fish are an underappreaciated adversary in the fishing world . it takes a lot of patience , skill and knowhow combined with a bit of good fortune to land one of these fish with a rod and reel . even those of us that bowfish concider this fish to be a prised specimine worthey of bragging about .
good job dave , that patch will make an excelent addition to your collection .
my patch for the big sucker came in today, I am currently standing in first place this year for the biggest white sucker. I knew it was a wopper when I hooked in to him…
he broke several lines and slipped off the hook a dozen times before I finnaly got a good hook in him. what is realy funny is I et 4 master angler White suckers before I realized I was eating master angler fish…[sly] I have to remember to put place a laminated section of that book in my tackle box for future refferance…
I will scan it and edit it in tonight so you can see what this years modle catch and keep patch looks like…
I have respectivly been knocked in to second place status for the michigan White Sucker for 2004. By less than a Quarter of an ounce. I knew I should have hung around for that big female full of eggs…
the one that bumbed me was caught a week earlier and was a Quarter inch shorter in lenth than mine…
so I guess I will have to stick my tail back under my leggs till I get me another first place wopper!!!
ye-ouch ! so close to first place !
the closest i have come to the state record this year is the walleye that could eat a football and muskey that thought that 22" pike was a light snack .
all i got to do was see them swim away .