08-29-2019, 10:09 PM
[quote TubeDude][#0000FF]Lest anyone think that Echo is overrun with toad perch, let me emphasize that as with most lakes and most trips you will likely have to deal with a lot of smaller fish between bigguns. I had long sessions where I caught grundles of 7-8 inch perch. And then a few bigger ones would move in and I would pick up several between 10 and 12 inches. Fish of the same size and year class tend to hang out together. But not always. There were a few hefty ones sprinkled in with a lot of smaller ones too.
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Surprised you didn't go to a big piece of perch meat. I typically will up size the size of the piece of perch meat until the ones I don't want to catch can't fit it in there mouth. It's worked well in the past to keep the little ones off the hook. They still tug on the bait but until one can fit it in there mouth there not getting hooked. That way I am only unhooking fish for the basket.
Great report by the way. Caught some nice ones.
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Surprised you didn't go to a big piece of perch meat. I typically will up size the size of the piece of perch meat until the ones I don't want to catch can't fit it in there mouth. It's worked well in the past to keep the little ones off the hook. They still tug on the bait but until one can fit it in there mouth there not getting hooked. That way I am only unhooking fish for the basket.
Great report by the way. Caught some nice ones.
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