01-22-2006, 05:35 AM
[cool]Cold weather and cold fishin', that pretty much sums up our day on the Rock as well. BassAckward, LittleJohnny, and Mike's old boss (Pete) went out there this morning expecting to slaughter them like the past two trips out there this year, and BOY did we get a nice slice of humble pie. We only iced 15 between four of us.
Normally at the Rock you can slay the perch as long as you can find a nice school of them. Finding them has been the hard part this year, but we did that today just fine, but still couldn't get those little suckers to bite much. Like you, we had the lightest perch bites we've ever seen. Don't know if it's the crazy barametric pressure changes today or what, but those fish weren't very hungry. We talked to one guy about 50 yards away from us that said that his buddy knocked the snot out of them yesterday (friday) and gave him the exact GPS coordinates of the two spots where he did so. One of the spots was right where we were at the time, and the other was where he was with his shanty, and he had only iced like 2 or 3 perch the whole day. We probably drilled 25 holes today (by hand) and still never found one spot that was much better than any others.
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Normally at the Rock you can slay the perch as long as you can find a nice school of them. Finding them has been the hard part this year, but we did that today just fine, but still couldn't get those little suckers to bite much. Like you, we had the lightest perch bites we've ever seen. Don't know if it's the crazy barametric pressure changes today or what, but those fish weren't very hungry. We talked to one guy about 50 yards away from us that said that his buddy knocked the snot out of them yesterday (friday) and gave him the exact GPS coordinates of the two spots where he did so. One of the spots was right where we were at the time, and the other was where he was with his shanty, and he had only iced like 2 or 3 perch the whole day. We probably drilled 25 holes today (by hand) and still never found one spot that was much better than any others.
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