Pond Boss Forums STOCKING A NEW POND Creating the food chain Lake chubsucker

Lake chubsucker and creek chubsucker are different species although similar looking fish.

Creek chubsucker is Erimyzon oblongus. Creek chubsuckers are less tolerant of silt than lake csuckers. Creek Cbsuckers are found more in small creeks than larger rivers or ponds/lakes where lk chubsuckers are typically found. Creek chubsuckers spawn commonly in creeks similar to methods of white suckers.

It does not make sense that the bass would not feed heavily on them if 45% of the electroshocked biomass was chubsuckers. I would think LMB would easily eliminate chubsuckers and not allow them to overpopulate. Puzzling. Greg how big were the sizes in your electro. sample?

Round bodied soft fined fish 6"-9" long would seem ideal food for medium sized bass. Nest spawners of the sunfish family are pretty defensive of nests and should under most instances keep occassional invaders chased away. But an overabundant population of chubsuckers could probably rob eggs and fry from nests; overabundant bgills do it why not chubsuckers.

G. Bennett did not mention any problems of lake chubsuckers suppressing fish reproduction. But anything is possible. I'm trying to find out a little more about these fish which is why I created this topic. There must be some negatives about them because they are not very popular. Hopefully Mike R. will add some of his experience.

Cecil - Ohio's fish ID guide does not even list them, however they are in Fishes Of Ohio - Trautman. I have been 'looking out' for these fish for 30 yrs. My local game warden when I asked about them today did not even know what they were let alone where one might find them. But he did know who Geo. Bennett was. Most who I ask are going to first say "you mean creek chub"?; dah.