Hit Rockport from about noon to dusk. Solid 6 plus inches of good hard ice.
Caught some keeper Perch, that generally were bigger than what I caught at Pineview last week. Not real fast fishing, but challenging to hook the light biters. Fun for me!
I am attaching a picture that I resized, but don’t know exactly how big it can be, so may not show.
Nice looking perch man!! My brother wants to go to Rockport this weekend but I wanted to hit Willard. Those perch may have changed my direction. How deep of water were you fishing in???
Thanks for the post. They are some decent size perch a lot bigger then the last ones I caught out of Rockport. Did you have to do a lot of moving around to locate them or were they easy to find? How deep were you fishing?
Nice fish. 4 inches bigger than the 25 or so that I brought home from Pineview Saturday.
I don’t take a depth finder with me anymore, so I would guess it was 50 feet deep based on how many turns of my reel handle (about 2 ft. per turn) to bring it back up off the bottom.
Of course I was targeting Perch, so I walked out to deep water and fished the bottom.
Good luck!
I was in about 50 feet of water. I didn’t move around a lot. I have a place I had luck before that is South of the boat ramp and out from the rocky shoreline.
My thinking is that the fish will eventually come around to see/smell what is going on. I had enough action that I stayed in the one place.
Good luck!
Thanks.
I like the faster action at Pineview, and actually the smaller ones eat as good as the larger ones. Its just the fileting that takes longer.
Good luck to ya!
Those are some toads, nice job! It makes you wonder, what other places are people overlooking that might have some nice perch in them?
I use to love fishing for the perch at Rockport, hopefully they are making a comeback. The last few years has been tough but those look like some good fish. Nice haul[;)]