01-20-2013, 04:47 AM
Originally I was headed to Devils' Creek today - thanks for the heads up about the tournament being there! We turned off and headed towards Preston for some less crowded waters and ended up at Winder Reservoir. I had a couple of tips (you know who you are, thanks!) that there were plenty of perch to keep the kids busy - man was that ever the case!
We arrived pretty late in the afternoon with the intent to fish past dark. Our first pole was down 20 yards out from the dam at 4:00, and it never actually landed on the bottom before I had a ravenous little perch. I was lucky I ever got the shelter up! The ice is thick - somewhere over 16". We fished after dark in the shelter and stayed until 7:30, and everyone had a ball. Unfortunately the biggest perch was about the exact same size as the smallest one. A whopping 4 inches! Using a brown shrimp jig proved to be the best, but honestly they took anything - I'm sure those little guys were starving with as many of them as there were.
In any case, next time out I'm going to hit Twin Lakes - but this is a guarantee catch, and for kids it was great!
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We arrived pretty late in the afternoon with the intent to fish past dark. Our first pole was down 20 yards out from the dam at 4:00, and it never actually landed on the bottom before I had a ravenous little perch. I was lucky I ever got the shelter up! The ice is thick - somewhere over 16". We fished after dark in the shelter and stayed until 7:30, and everyone had a ball. Unfortunately the biggest perch was about the exact same size as the smallest one. A whopping 4 inches! Using a brown shrimp jig proved to be the best, but honestly they took anything - I'm sure those little guys were starving with as many of them as there were.
In any case, next time out I'm going to hit Twin Lakes - but this is a guarantee catch, and for kids it was great!
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