Thread: Sauger???

Lol, yes JW! In fact I went briefly this evening, no luck. I have a small plan for the sauger if u are free one evening soon.

I use plastic grubs, jigs, marabou etc, smallest weight that gets you to the bottom. Never used live minnows, not sure how many you would go through with all the snags.
A saugeye is a hybrid sauger-walleye from cross breeding. A sauger is a separate species.

It's a little early in the year from my past experience but I thought the early cold weather would get them started sooner.

Yep little early but I am game,

You might catch a few on cranks on Maumele. Deep and slow. I have dropped my camera down on the marked fish attracters and always see saugeye. Might use night crawlers with air in there tales- trout style.

during the summer months we catch one every other trip or so.....17 to 20 ft deep using 300 bandits or deep middle n crankbaits on points....they are some fine eating.

Don't know about sauger, but if they are related to walleye,, leaches work great!! just jig for them with leaches off the bottoms near dams or points

usually they will runn up river sometime in mid january and stack up at the toadsuck dam. there will be hoards of people bank fishing, and catching. they use pretty much anything that catches crappie.

Originally Posted by Crappie Greg

I would like a good mess of em myself, never had one but here there good eatin!

Greg I've had em and they are really good.