08-15-2004, 02:25 PM
[url "javascript: addTag('cool')"][cool][/url][#0000ff]Didn't keep any for the kitchen this trip. Between the three of us we caught probably a couple of hundred, but none of them were over about 9 inches. I am pretty good with the electric fillet knife and have kept and eaten lotsa small ones in the past, but we only kept a few to cut up for bait.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]My past experience has been that perch tend to school by size. The bigger ones are generally deeper and less gullible. We were anchored shallow and catching the dumb youngsters. I plan to do some serious tubing up there, and to hunt out the wily 12 inch plus fish.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]The same was true for the smallies. You can catch a few little guys even if you do not have precise boat control (no electric motor) and if you make lots of noise (we did). The larger fish tend to either be solitary or to form small groups in areas of good cover and plentiful food. Most serious bassers look for areas where there is shallow feeding opportunity, with deep water close by. Bigguns hang out in the shallows only during transition periods when the waters are cool and the shallows offer a couple degrees more warmth.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I did have a brief moment of excitement yesterday, when a big smallmouth chased a small hooked perch to the top. I got to see it as it turned and bolted back into the depths, but it would not whack anything large that I sent down for approval.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]My past experience has been that perch tend to school by size. The bigger ones are generally deeper and less gullible. We were anchored shallow and catching the dumb youngsters. I plan to do some serious tubing up there, and to hunt out the wily 12 inch plus fish.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]The same was true for the smallies. You can catch a few little guys even if you do not have precise boat control (no electric motor) and if you make lots of noise (we did). The larger fish tend to either be solitary or to form small groups in areas of good cover and plentiful food. Most serious bassers look for areas where there is shallow feeding opportunity, with deep water close by. Bigguns hang out in the shallows only during transition periods when the waters are cool and the shallows offer a couple degrees more warmth.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I did have a brief moment of excitement yesterday, when a big smallmouth chased a small hooked perch to the top. I got to see it as it turned and bolted back into the depths, but it would not whack anything large that I sent down for approval.[/#0000ff]
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