When I was young it was only a few fish that you could shoot with bow or gig... Didn't I see now that you can gig and shoot catfish with a bow?
Anyway...everyone should gig for suckers just once in their life.. When they run up the small feeder streams at night when spawning.. A gig and the old days a Coleman lantern with a reflector on the back was all you needed.. neat... hundreds of them going up the stream in front of you and when you get one with a gig you can feel the power of the fish all the way up through the gig pole attached to the fork.. Kind of like what the Native Americans experienced here during the Woodland era... remember the sucker was here then but not the Carp.. we did make the mistake an import that in from Europe.. Wow what a mistake.. In the NEPA areas as a kid.. They sue to have Carp contest just to get them out of the Susquehanna River....
When do you gig.. Why when the trees blossom.. Get yourself a pair of hip boots or waders.. The gig and this is the time that maybe one of those cheap cash register white head lights will work so you won't need a Coleman lantern... Also take the red lens off you head lights and use them too.... Gigging you got to try or make sure you children enjoy it at least once in their life.
