08-13-2011, 06:06 PM
[cool][#0000ff]Sounds cool. Always fun to watch the take.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I saw lots of suspended fish on sonar yesterday but they were not responding. I did get my largest perch from a suspended school...in an area that produced well from suspended fish last year.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Pikeman reported on a trip last year in which he and a buddy were fishing right next to one of the bridge abutments...and the perch were suspended at mid depth. They were getting hammered on big fish as fast as they reached the "zone".[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Some guys have also done well trolling cranks at fairly shallow depths over deeper water...for walleyes. That is more of a great lakes tactic. But I think the young perch (food) sometimes suspend when they are feeding on zooplankton or other invertebrates and the bigger fish follow the food.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]TubeBabe and I had a day a couple of years ago in Bunny Gulch when we found a large school of perch right on the bottom...in 25 feet of water. We put out a marker buoy and started catching them pretty fast. Within a few minutes the whole school came up off the bottom and were holding right under our fins. We could see them swimming around and it was instant grab when we dropped a jig to them. Most of them were pretty decent fish but seeing them made it easier to pull the lures away from the dinks...and to hook the sneaky bigger ones.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Fun lake. Always something new to learn.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I saw lots of suspended fish on sonar yesterday but they were not responding. I did get my largest perch from a suspended school...in an area that produced well from suspended fish last year.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Pikeman reported on a trip last year in which he and a buddy were fishing right next to one of the bridge abutments...and the perch were suspended at mid depth. They were getting hammered on big fish as fast as they reached the "zone".[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Some guys have also done well trolling cranks at fairly shallow depths over deeper water...for walleyes. That is more of a great lakes tactic. But I think the young perch (food) sometimes suspend when they are feeding on zooplankton or other invertebrates and the bigger fish follow the food.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]TubeBabe and I had a day a couple of years ago in Bunny Gulch when we found a large school of perch right on the bottom...in 25 feet of water. We put out a marker buoy and started catching them pretty fast. Within a few minutes the whole school came up off the bottom and were holding right under our fins. We could see them swimming around and it was instant grab when we dropped a jig to them. Most of them were pretty decent fish but seeing them made it easier to pull the lures away from the dinks...and to hook the sneaky bigger ones.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Fun lake. Always something new to learn.[/#0000ff]
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