[Photo] Historical Sucker Days festival celebrates the start of summer Nikolai Palomo, Website Editor April 24, 2025
![“[Finis Gold] is actually the founder of sucker days,” Cayman Ott, events coordinator for the Nixa Chamber of Commerce said. “In 1957 … they would go get all the sucker fish and bring it back and have a big fish fry for the townspeople.”](https://nixajournalism.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Sucker_Day_filleters_men_Bryan__Norman_Pat_Ward_Milton_Wasson_Burl_Pfander_Robert_Rice1.jpg)