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I fished access 5 the other day and ran into a pod of fish.  My heart skipped a beat in anticipation due to their number and size.  I had never before seen such a concentrated group of large fish.  There must have been 8+ fish.  They were holdin IN a riffle - very unusual for trout in my experience.  Of course I had to cast to them - they didn't look like spawning trout to me...  After ~ 10 casts, I set the hook one of the larger fish.  He fought pretty well for ~ 2 minutes and then I brought him to net.  A pikeminnow!  Biggest one I have every caught. 20+ inches. Now I know what I've seen down in Lake Solano while kayaking.  I've seen some big ones shooting by.  Their dark lateral stripe gives them away...

Has anyone else seen them up at or beyond access 5? My first time...



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This is actually very strange I've never even seen them in lake solano I've seem below the diversion dam however I wonder if it's a good or bad thing?

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I've caught small ones in the slow water above Shon's riffle (marker 54?) as far back as the early to mid 90's, But never anything close to that size.

I always thought they were competitive with or predatory to trout but never gave it much thought. A quick Google search seems to be a little ambiguous. I believe Dawn from NCFFB was the local expert on them but haven't heard from her in years. Perhaps Steve Karr has the skinny?

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I used to catch them half that size 15 years ago around the Solano camping area. Those are naturally there and what do you think feeds the big fish?



-- Edited by Rossflyguy on Saturday 12th of April 2014 07:44:23 AM

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So I would assume they would be up in the shallows spawning? If so what color are their eggs? Has anyone seen suckers spawning in the creek?

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Here is an old thread of my first sucker on Putah. They probably come out of Lake Solano to spawn in March and April. Back then I thought it was a carp.

putahcreekflyfishing.activeboard.com/t15849252/carp-season/

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Isn't that a Squawfish?


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Squawfish is the common name for pikeminnow...



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drdan wrote:

Squawfish is the common name for pikeminnow...

 Your pic and the pic Otter posted are 2 totally different fish, not sure what Otters fish is but Pike Minnow and Squawfish are the same thing. Otters fish has a different bottom feeder type of mouth.



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Otters is a sucker fish and Dr Dan is a pike minnow

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Wow, why do you have to resort to name calling?!  biggrin



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