Do suckers or other fish run here like in Erie ?

I was just curious if any runs occur from the river to any of our local streams. I know some fish from the river make their way up some of the creeks. Are they straggling up are they lost !! Just wondering.

Used to gig them. Dark of new moon in April is supposed to be best. They're good eating but boney! You can boil them, strip the meat and make good fish cakes!

Suckers and carp will both enter tributaries anywhere to spawn in the spring. Fish do migrate other places than Erie. Have seen un named woodland streams be loaded w suckers in the spring that are tributaries to beaver run.

I heard crappie make a run up Pigeon Creek from the Mon in the spring, i really dont know how true that is, never fished for them, just saying tho.

Ronnie

I don't know about crappie,but I do know that white bass come up 10 mile from the Mon,used to be big numbers,usualy around the middle of March.I did see them come up Buffalo Creek from the Allegheny. sam

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I heard crappie make a run up Pigeon Creek from the Mon in the spring, i really dont know how true that is, never fished for them, just saying tho.

Ronnie

When I lived in Monongahela(about 30 years ago) I would fish for crappie from the aquatorium(stage) that was built onto the river right in town. A hour or two before dark into the night and would catch 12-14 inch crappie on minnows right along the edge of the stage. A lantern at night, was a must allowing the light to slightly shine in the water which would attract bugs, minnows and fish. Used a float slightly weighted about 18-22 inches deep. Crappie will seldom hit bait that is below them that is why you need to fish rather shallow for them to see the bait above them. With all the other types of fish in the river now you have a chance of hooking just about any PA. fresh water fish. Best time to fish is coming up right now as the weather warms and river conditions permit(March - May).

Wally cat, Pretty intresting fishing off of that Aquatorium after dark with all of them darn river rats(the 4 legged ones)staying just at the edge of the light.we would occasionaly put a piece of cheese on a hook & try to catch them. They would usualy nibble it off without getting hooked. I don't know what I would have done had I actualy caught one. lol sam

Sam, never saw too many rats there but would see a lot over at Pigeon Creek at night when I fished there for carp. They would come right over to us and steal our doughball right out of a container. I made short work of several with a sling shot.

Loomis, I don't want to hijack this thread,but, That is one of the streams that I was talking about. We used to handfish for snapping turtles in there also. sam

I've stumbled onto dense sucker runs twice in the past couple years in western pa. Never really tried to catch them. One was a trib of the Mon river and the other was a trib of a small lake up on the mountain.