I caught a 3 footer on a piece of pepperoni one time while on a fly-in fishing trip on the Groundhog River in Canada. Really, I did. I saw one mounted in the cabin we were stayin in and saw that mouth that looks like a sucker fish & decided it was a bottom feeder like a sucker. The first one broke my line, but I managed to land the second one. I released it immediately. Very cool looking fish that looks like a shark and fights equally as well.
I heard they have been stocked in Oneida Lake to control the zebra mussel growth & a number of them have been recorded as caught. Not legal to keep in NYS.