
Since many species of clams inhabit lakes and streams, they also can be used as good bait to catch channel catfish. (Why make up colorful nicknames when the clam’s names were actually given to them somewhere down the line?)

There is one I call mooneye, but it is also known to some anglers as slicker, toothed herring, cisco, river white fish, white shad and freshwater herring. And these are real names, not just the nicknames given to fish in the same area. The rather drab looking creatures certainly do have more colorful names.Īdd in names of other protected species of mussels such as cylinder, strange floater, creek heelsplitter, purple pimpleback, butterfly, ellipse and the Higgins eye pearly mussel, and you have quite an array of different monikers to pick from. There are also threatened and endangered species such as spectacle case, slippershell, buckhorn, Ozark pigtoe, bullhead, Ohio river pigtoe, Slough sandshell and yellow sand shell. Of course, in the Mississippi River, muckets, which can be taken in Iowa waters, are classified as clams. There are many varieties found in the Big River and tributaries, along with “hooking” some zebra mussels. On several other trips to the Big River and a few creeks over the past couple of years, I have been surprised when reeling in a shellfish. In this situation, I did not need to use a landing net for a flopping fish, but I was able to muscle in a member of the mucket species of freshwater mussels. I did not have to put water in my live well, because in this case my hitchhiker was a clam, or properly called a mussel, which had logged on to my hook as it was doing its eating type of thing. It had picked up a ride while hitchhiking along the bottom. As it got close to the surface, a grayish oval shell, about five or six inches in length took shape. It was as if I was reeling in a huge blade bait, a little different than when it was empty or bringing in a piece of snag tree limb. As it seemed to be coming in a little slower than an empty line usually comes in, I figured I had been successful in catching one of those stick or bark fish which seems to inhabit the Big River.Īs the end of the line got closer to the boat, it seemed to be doing a little wobbling back and forth. In this case, the “lazy” had to do with the lack of the fish doing any work like the “tapping of a bite.” It came time to reel in my “no action” line to check if there was any bait left on the hook.
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