So I've been getting in to sucker fishing. Started hooking up on some small ones right in the upper beaches area. I had a great time last week pulling out a couple of small nice ones in a few minutes. I included a pic but my camera or my skills as a photographer are not that high quality yet. If anyone can point me in the right direction of bigger ones i would appreciate it. Saw two dark colored black ones swim by i guess there in spawning colors.
Those are pretty typical ones in the Toronto area. There are some bigger ones in the mix but you usually have to sort through some smaller ones first.
If you're looking for bigger, I think I've seen larger suckers pulled out of the Rouge River. You could try the Don river system if that's more accessible to you.
There may be larger ones in the place you fished
......you said you could see them........so - try a deeper run.............in an side eddy, in a calmer slick below a riffle, or along a main current edge at the head of a pool. (same advice for most river species)