Great day for plump prech!!!

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[inline mefeb13.JPG][inline feb13.JPG]It was great!! They were GOOD eatin!! BUT........I worked my BUTT off to find them!!



LT

[Jazzperch1]

nice job they are definatly getting fatter for the spawn.
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[fish_fear_me2]

I am happy for ya
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[Javelin18]

nice catch, those are nice trout as well.
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[Wildcat94]

well done sir!
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[SkunkedAgain]

Nice job, I'll bet that was fun. If I could find perch that size I might even target perch instead of trout. Thanks for the encouraging photo. Later J
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[litetackle]

My daughter wanted perch so we went for some. Had NO idea we would get in to them that large. I've never caught perch that big. 2 of them were 12" and the smallest was 8". I thought they were trout the way my rod was bending. We hiked all over the lake but once we found them, it was on. It was too bad the day was gone or I might have caught more.

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[litetackle]

Thanks to ya all!! I fogot to post the biggest crappie I've ever caught too. Good year so far.


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[wiperhunter2]

Are you keeping the location a secret? Nice job on the perch and trout, did you catch the crappie at the same location?
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[SkunkedAgain]

Looks like your efforts paid off. I think my biggest perch this year has been the size of your smallest. Good trip. Later J
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[PACKFAN]

Nice crappie, was that at Holmes Creek?
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[litetackle]

Yes. That one took me by suprise. My friend caught one first, a little smaller. Never caught crappie there. I knew they were there, and there were some size to them but a first for me.

I fished it a couple weeks ago and all i caught were crappie. They would scool through at 15 to 30 feet and hit rat finkies tipped with worms or salmon eggs.

Fun to fish that pond, however, the slush was 9" that day. I wish I would have had my water proof boots on.

LT

[litetackle]

Not at all. Not enough time to post all the details on the first post. We were at echo. The perch were in 40' of water and right on the bottom. I MEAN RIGHT on the bottom. If we could see any part of a jig on the flasher no bites. So we'd old scool it by dropping to the bottom and reel up a quater turn. A little jigging and raising the rod up a few inches seemed to get the bite best. The bite was slow and light. We missed a bunch. Jigs with night crawlers seemed to work the best.

A note. that trout by the bottle in the picture was bumping my transducer right under the ice. Cool to see him do that. We just put the tent up and I got a line down to him quick. He took it jusj under the ice. LT

[PACKFAN]

The perch bite can be a funny thing. A couple weeks ago when I went to Idaho and caught the mess of big perch they pretty much wanted it dead sticked just an inch or two off the bottom with cut bait. One of my favorite ways to entice them at times is to slowly raise your rod 2 feet or so off the bottom and watch your fish finder to see if they follow the bait up. If they come up in a hurry, 9 times out of 10 they will nail it. If they come up slow that usually runs about 50/50 if they will bite or not. Another tactic I like is to raise your bait way up and drop it back down letting the bait fall to the bottom and lay there for a few seconds then slowly lift it until the slack comes out of your line sometimes that drives them nuts and they will pick it off the bottom. I may have to try Holmes Creek again, that was a great fishing hole until the DWR ruined it by putting those damn slimers in it and turning it into a community fishery. It use to have LM bass, crappie, bluegill, and a few walleye in it. Those were good fish and not the stunted fish you find in some small lakes. A few years ago I even caught a nice wiper or white bass thru the ice there, I had never caught a wiper so I wasn't sure what it was, I released it back into the pond. Thanks for your post and picture of one of my favorite fishing holes, many fond ice fishing memories there.[]
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[DKStroutfitter]

You caught a White Bass. I caught one through the ice at HC.
I have also caught Catfishand Bluegill through the ice at HC.
Fun little pond.
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[PACKFAN]

The catfish, trout, and possibly the white bass were put in by the DWR when they turned it into a community fishery. There wasn't any of those spieces in there back when I started ice fishing it back in the 70's. If they wanted to plant trout some place I would like to see them toss some 6 to 8 inchers in Willard Bay for the walleye to play with.[]
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