sucker run

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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the spring migration of large numbers of suckers ascending fresh-water rivers to spawn.

See: run ((n.))(def. 6b)

Quotations

1924

In the spring spawning season, he had bought him a wagon-box full of fish in the sucker run. . . .

1960

The end of winter, with melting ice and snow and increased stream flow, is the signal for the sucker run.