Frugal fishing ideas [View all]
A couple of days ago, I was talking with my father-in-law about fishing and we discussed fishing for suckers. A fish many people overlook. In Michigan where I live, suckers can be taken year round on many rivers and from the end of April to Sept. 30th on certain designated trout streams. There is no size or quantity limit for the fish.
Last year, some friends who had gone fishing gave me the suckers they had caught but didn't want. I made Kalamojakka, a Finnish fish stew, with it and it was very good. One can also use suckers to pan fry, can, pickle, smoke or grind up into fish patties. Being bottom feeders, suckers are easy to catch using the most basic of fishing gear with worms as bait.
Now you may be like me and not have any fishing gear at all. A basic fishing rod adequate to take suckers is pretty inexpensive or one may make their own "Hobo" fishing kit out of 1" pvc pipe and fittings or use a protein drink tube as shown in this youtube video:
A resident fishing license in Michigan costs $26.00 and maybe it would cost another $10 or so dollars to make my own fishing kit but there's still plenty of time to recoup that this year in money saved.
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