In the early days suckers formed a cheap wholesome food for the early settlers. You can't catch a sucker with a hook and line. l The early settlers in Cache Valley would make trips to Bear Lake bringing empty barrels to stock with fish for their winter supply.
Charles H. Alley Sr., living on one half of an alluvial fault out of South Eden Canyon, some eight miles down the east side of the lake from Laketown. He seigned the fish at night and often the catch would add up to three thousand a night. He sold them to the Cache Valley people for one-half cent a piece.
The men cleaned, skinned and salted them and placed them in the barrels right at the lake shore. The meat of the sucker is white and delicious, the bones are terrible, like two edged swords - especially those in the tail end. From the ribs to the neck they're delicious.
The great schools of fish made black shadows in the lake.
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