What are Peamouth good for? The reason I am asking is that I live on Mason lake and I am seeing thousands schooling around at the mouth of the creek, soon to be in the creek spawning.

They are part of the ecosystem. They provide a forage base for larger animals such as kingfishers, mergsansers, cormorants, otters, cutthroat. They are in the middle of the food chain; they will eat phyto-and zoo-plankton that are too small for larger organisms to eat, thereby passing energy from one level to another.

Like most minnows they are probably too bony for most anglers' tastes. In Mason Lake they probably feed the bass and cutties.

They are great for disrupting your flyfishing when you get sloppy with your backcast and they hit your fly that hits the water.

I kept a whole ton of them once out of Lake Sammamish when I was a kid...used them for crab bait...they worked well

Fish on...

Todd

They make great sturgeon bait.