Blackwater
Twelve Pointer
When I was a youngster there were some of the cash strapped farmer/sportsmen in the area who set fish traps in the feeder streams of the Lumber River in order to supplement their food budget. Now this practice was illegal, and I'm not going to confess to being a part of it, but I do know how to build and set a trap because I've seen it done. You might catch panfish, bass, jack, blackfish, turtle, otter or sucker, depending on the time of year, but the best eating fish I've ever seen come out of a trap was the redhorse which were usually caught about this time of year.
The redhorse is in the sucker family, has several varieties, has much the same forked bones along the side as the pickerel, and in spite of being a sucker and denigrated by most of the fishing community are excellent eating since they like to live in clean, clear water with no silting, and as those in the know can attest, the fish which come out of the blackwater streams and rivers of the Eastern part of the state taste better than those coming from the clay country to the West.
I was just wondering if anyone else on the forum has had any experience with the redhorse. I've never fished for them in the traditional sense, but there are those who do in different parts of the Eastern US.
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct...y-fish&usg=AFQjCNFdB-RS9zV8Ph8C16FCYJyRnn94MQ
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct...vkzE2YXkat9EILtitIfRIQ&bvm=bv.148441817,d.cGc
The redhorse is in the sucker family, has several varieties, has much the same forked bones along the side as the pickerel, and in spite of being a sucker and denigrated by most of the fishing community are excellent eating since they like to live in clean, clear water with no silting, and as those in the know can attest, the fish which come out of the blackwater streams and rivers of the Eastern part of the state taste better than those coming from the clay country to the West.
I was just wondering if anyone else on the forum has had any experience with the redhorse. I've never fished for them in the traditional sense, but there are those who do in different parts of the Eastern US.
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct...y-fish&usg=AFQjCNFdB-RS9zV8Ph8C16FCYJyRnn94MQ
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct...vkzE2YXkat9EILtitIfRIQ&bvm=bv.148441817,d.cGc
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