Giving back a report for once after reading everyone elses. Put in at Big Man’s around 11 and fished up river a little with no luck. Moved down near the main river and picked up a few on shiners including a nicer 8lber.
Ran down near dreher to exercise the boat and found some good perch but of course forgot spoons at the house. Was still able to pick up a couple on smaller shiners but went back to the original spot and picked up another 8lber and called it a day.
I needed to run the boat yesterday, so I dropped it in a for a couple of hours and brought along some small spoons. Found what I was pretty sure were perch, but didn’t catch any after trying a few different .5 oz spoons I’ve had success with in the past.
How deep were the perch you were seeing/caught? What I was seeing was in 20-25 fow.
A couple of 8 pounders beat what we had yesterday Texas. The bite was really slow for me and Spoon with a 7 pounder, a 22 incher, a good sized blue cat, a few shorts 20-20&7/8, and few perch. We fished from 9-3:30 and started quick with the 7 on the cork before we could get the second rod out. It was all slow from there fishing the same area and technique mentioned in earlier reports. We were marking plenty, but they didn’t want to come off the bottom. Maybe it was too calm. Oh well. That’s fishing, and the previous 5 weekends were great.
It was fun to finally get back on the water. Haven’t been fishing in 3 or 4 weeks. The cat hit a 1/2 ounce Berry spoon and weighed 11.1 on digital scales. Gave me all the fight I wanted! Good way to test out a new fishing rod.
striperskiff - The perch were in 33’ if I remember correctly. Only found them after stopping to throw into some gulls/loons hopping for striper but I think it was the perch pushing up the bait.
Striperskiff, The last time I fished for perch was around 5 weeks ago. They were scattered between 18’ and 33’. Caught around 50 or 60 perch along with a largemouth, some nice catfish a few short stripers,. The baitfish were moving that day and we had to keep moving around with the trolling motor locating the fish and dropping the spoons to them. We’d catch 5 or 10 and they would move. They bit 3/8, 1/2 and 3/4 ounce spoons that day.
Tim, that looks more like a double return off of a hard bottom. Yes. Perch will group up thick and look like a double bottom, but you’ll still see some arching going on. I’ll text you a screen of perch on my graph since I can’t seem to post pics right now.
BTW, I noticed recently you mentioned Photobucket when saying you are having issues posting pics. These days, you should be able to just click on the paper clip just below where you enter text when replying and browse to the pic you want in insert.
Thanks Tim. I didn’t know that trick to posting photos on this site. I used to just copy and paste an img code from Photobucket.
Any way, that’s a screen shot of perch last December. It was my first trip with the HDS 5 and I didn’t know then to use auto sensitivity. That explains the interference, but we can still see the fish.
’). This was last week at Murray.
