08-13-2019, 10:34 PM
[#0000ff]'Twas a purty day. Flat calm all morning. A couple of ski boats on the lake but they stayed well away from us tubers.
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[#0000ff]Air temp was right at 50 degrees at launch. Cool to the touch...but nice after the past couple of weeks in the valley.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I started out on a perch search...both for the table and some for future bait on other waters. Didn't get my first perch until almost an hour after the 6:30 launch. Saw a few individuals here and there, but no schools. Did see some schools of young of the year perchlets but I did not work them over much.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Went south to a big rocky point and molested a few bitty bass. Big whoop. No more perch so I motored back up to the area I had seen potential and refined my technique. Started picking up some more perch and a couple more smallies...my biggest might have been 10 inches or so. About the same size as my biggest perch for the day.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Fishing was slow and the bite delicate. But I did manage to get a few 8-10 inch perch for some scampi and noodles. And I kept another half dozen half-footers for bait duty. Almost all my bites from perch were in 14-16 feet of water...offshore from some willows growing along the bank. That's likely what was drawing in the perchlets and the perchlets were drawing in the predatory larger fish.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]When I got back to the gravel take-out spot next to the ramp it looked like the bottom of the lake was moving. Clouds of mini perchlets were swarming all over the place. No wonder the fishing was a bit slower than we had hoped. When I filleted the perch later each had the remnants of a "perch parfait" in its innards.
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[#0000ff]Air temp was right at 50 degrees at launch. Cool to the touch...but nice after the past couple of weeks in the valley.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I started out on a perch search...both for the table and some for future bait on other waters. Didn't get my first perch until almost an hour after the 6:30 launch. Saw a few individuals here and there, but no schools. Did see some schools of young of the year perchlets but I did not work them over much.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Went south to a big rocky point and molested a few bitty bass. Big whoop. No more perch so I motored back up to the area I had seen potential and refined my technique. Started picking up some more perch and a couple more smallies...my biggest might have been 10 inches or so. About the same size as my biggest perch for the day.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Fishing was slow and the bite delicate. But I did manage to get a few 8-10 inch perch for some scampi and noodles. And I kept another half dozen half-footers for bait duty. Almost all my bites from perch were in 14-16 feet of water...offshore from some willows growing along the bank. That's likely what was drawing in the perchlets and the perchlets were drawing in the predatory larger fish.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]When I got back to the gravel take-out spot next to the ramp it looked like the bottom of the lake was moving. Clouds of mini perchlets were swarming all over the place. No wonder the fishing was a bit slower than we had hoped. When I filleted the perch later each had the remnants of a "perch parfait" in its innards.
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