Starvation Perch Report

[trueblue2]

Went to Starvation this morning ... very cold! Arrived about 8:00a and found the perch right away. Fished in 12 fow in Rabbit Gulch. Good day!
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[kbfan]

Awesome! Been waiting for someone to find the perch up there. wish I could make it up there more often. I hate the drive. Thanks for the report
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[mtncat1]

man you really got into them good , I want to get up there next week if the stars align[]
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[Fishin_Fool78]

Thats alot of fish!! What were you catching them on?
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[trueblue2]

Used pretty much just standard perch fare ... Rat funkies with perch eyes. Used a piece of worm to catch the first one, then used the perch parts from then on. They were biting very aggressively.
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[Charina]

For me they were hitting anything and everything. Any small jigs even without bait, any color. 2.5 inch tubes. A bare 3/16 jig head with no bait I was using as a drop weight. I stepped up to 1/4 oz Buckland jigs, with those large trebles, trying to avoid the dinks, and all sizes were going after that as well. Lure did not matter. Only location.

11 fow.
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[Pinstriper]

How does chub meat work at Starvy for bait?

[PACKFAN]

Way to go TB2, haven't seen a report with perch from Starvation for a while. We use to catch some pretty decent perch out of there a few years back hope it picks up again. Thanks for posting.
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[albinotrout]

Nice mess of perch. []. Now you have me wanting to hit starvy and wanting softwater.[]
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[trueblue2]

Hello again PACKFAN. Actually, we found the perch last summer so we had a good idea of where to start drilling. Lots and lots of dinks which we put back to grow up. Looks like the perch have had a couple of really good spawning years. It's good to know that there are a lot of remote bays in Starvy that are very difficult to get to in the winter (I'm a walker) like over in the back of Salterous. Perch there are pretty much undisturbed until summer. Hopefully, will run into you at Cascade later this month. Good fishin' to all.
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[PACKFAN]

We should see you up there (Cascade) in a couple weeks. We kept our 5th wheel in Manila last summer but I think we are going to take it back down to Starvation this summer again. After having it there for 4 or 5 years we kind of missed the place. It was fun catching the big kokes at the Gorge but we missed our walleye fishing at Starvation.
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[MR.PIKE]

Nice report. Mmmmmm, Perch.
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[TheScout]

Nice going!! Curious on how thick the ice was...???
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[trueblue2]

Ice was 5 to 7" all the way across the back of Rabbit Gulch. Good solid ice.
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