02-13-2009, 06:13 AM
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] Hi Kevin! You are welcome. I probably haven't caught as many perch as you but I do enjoy catching them when the opportunity presents itself. Yes, I do keep a log of sorts on most of the reservoirs in the area. And I do have some interesting articles and a few facts totalling several large binders about fishing the reservoirs in eastern Idaho.
I'll give you a true life story that happened to me about 16 years ago while fishing for perch. This one will give you something to dream about. It may be a once in a life time event for me but I hope not. In one of the reservoirs in eastern Idaho known for yellow perch I had a friend and his son who went float tubing one Fall for perch. I'll help by giving all the facts but not the reservoir as that is a secret and the fun is in the search for which reservoir. I'll give enough clues that perhaps someone will figure it out and earn the luck of being there. Anyway my friend and his son went float tubing in the upper end of the reservoir using tube jigs with a pinch of worm. On nearly every cast for hours they got a bite by a perch. The average perch was running a fat 8 inches with a fair amount in the 10 inch range and several were 12" long. When they got back to town they had to call me and ask if they could come over and shown me what they had caught. When they arrived at the door I invited them in expecting a nice rainbow trout or two they had caught. Instead it was a nice ice chest full of fat perch, about forty or so in number.
I had to go catch some my self! My eyes had bugged out
and I had never personally seen such a nice mess of perch that size in my life. A few days later he and I went to the same spot and float tubed that day using tube jigs with a pinch of worm. We would cast out not much more than a rod's length and let the jigs swing down towards bottom and back towards us. Bang! nearly every cast would enlist a bite. Hint- The perch were dining in channels of waters with vegetation on either side surrounded by hills and mountains high and low. Cattle guard, toilet, dam and junipers stand as sentinels while miles down the road rattlesnakes make their dens. Rock cliffs with rock slides and brush along a stream guard the way from the direction geese fly this time of year. And a canyon so dry it hurts for water is known as "Dry". Well enough hints as to which reservoir. By the end of the day my friend and I had kept approximately about 123 very nice fat yellow perch. Great fish fillets and mighty good eating. Then the cold winds blew and the fun was over for the year before the water began to stand still, cloaked in white H2O.
Now before someone accuses me of being a fish hog, you need to understand something. These perch were at the end of their 5 to 6 year life cycle and most were destined to die of old age and fertilize the lake bottom before the following spring came. Better on my dinner plate that on the lake bottom dead. And most all fishermen were busy that time of year preparing for hunting season so the perch wern't going to be caught anytime soon before they died. A particular weather event very crucial to concentrating them in a particular place on the reservoir was key to catching so many so quickly as hinted in what I just wrote. Good luck perch fishing. Maybe some year if I find the time I'll return and strike it lucky at this particulat time, place and weather event.
As an additional hint look under the" Mud Lake" post on the forum and try to narrow it down to which reservoir I'm talking about.
DeeCee [
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I ice fish not because I like the cold but because it is the only time of year I can impress my wife, by walking on water.
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] Hi Kevin! You are welcome. I probably haven't caught as many perch as you but I do enjoy catching them when the opportunity presents itself. Yes, I do keep a log of sorts on most of the reservoirs in the area. And I do have some interesting articles and a few facts totalling several large binders about fishing the reservoirs in eastern Idaho.I'll give you a true life story that happened to me about 16 years ago while fishing for perch. This one will give you something to dream about. It may be a once in a life time event for me but I hope not. In one of the reservoirs in eastern Idaho known for yellow perch I had a friend and his son who went float tubing one Fall for perch. I'll help by giving all the facts but not the reservoir as that is a secret and the fun is in the search for which reservoir. I'll give enough clues that perhaps someone will figure it out and earn the luck of being there. Anyway my friend and his son went float tubing in the upper end of the reservoir using tube jigs with a pinch of worm. On nearly every cast for hours they got a bite by a perch. The average perch was running a fat 8 inches with a fair amount in the 10 inch range and several were 12" long. When they got back to town they had to call me and ask if they could come over and shown me what they had caught. When they arrived at the door I invited them in expecting a nice rainbow trout or two they had caught. Instead it was a nice ice chest full of fat perch, about forty or so in number.
I had to go catch some my self! My eyes had bugged out
and I had never personally seen such a nice mess of perch that size in my life. A few days later he and I went to the same spot and float tubed that day using tube jigs with a pinch of worm. We would cast out not much more than a rod's length and let the jigs swing down towards bottom and back towards us. Bang! nearly every cast would enlist a bite. Hint- The perch were dining in channels of waters with vegetation on either side surrounded by hills and mountains high and low. Cattle guard, toilet, dam and junipers stand as sentinels while miles down the road rattlesnakes make their dens. Rock cliffs with rock slides and brush along a stream guard the way from the direction geese fly this time of year. And a canyon so dry it hurts for water is known as "Dry". Well enough hints as to which reservoir. By the end of the day my friend and I had kept approximately about 123 very nice fat yellow perch. Great fish fillets and mighty good eating. Then the cold winds blew and the fun was over for the year before the water began to stand still, cloaked in white H2O.
Now before someone accuses me of being a fish hog, you need to understand something. These perch were at the end of their 5 to 6 year life cycle and most were destined to die of old age and fertilize the lake bottom before the following spring came. Better on my dinner plate that on the lake bottom dead. And most all fishermen were busy that time of year preparing for hunting season so the perch wern't going to be caught anytime soon before they died. A particular weather event very crucial to concentrating them in a particular place on the reservoir was key to catching so many so quickly as hinted in what I just wrote. Good luck perch fishing. Maybe some year if I find the time I'll return and strike it lucky at this particulat time, place and weather event.
As an additional hint look under the" Mud Lake" post on the forum and try to narrow it down to which reservoir I'm talking about.
DeeCee [
]I ice fish not because I like the cold but because it is the only time of year I can impress my wife, by walking on water.
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