Back to Echo 8-27-19

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[#0000FF]I caught a couple of 9-10 inch smallies...and lost one maybe 13-14 that munched my flig, went airborne and gave it back to me...just that fast. In truth, today was a dedicated "perch-search". I know from past experience that if I really wanna get some smallie tugs it ain't that hard to do on Echo.
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[#0000FF]The water is full of baby perch...clouds of them on sonar. I suspect that most of the larger perch and the smallmouths are probably stuffed. I know the ones I filleted all had "remnants". There was one boat that was throwing larger plastics along the shoreline that probably picked up some smallies. I saw a couple they caught earlier when they were closer.[/#0000FF]
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[#0000FF]MrShane was spot-locked in a small area that had a lot of perchlets under and around him. There were frequent "mini rainstorms" as perch fry hit the surface to escape "something" attacking them from below.
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[#0000FF]A few more degrees of coolness in the water and there will be some epic topwater at daybreak. Then in the late fall the smallies really go on the chew along steep banks...if you know how to work a crankbait or the right plastic.
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