11-26-2023, 06:17 PM
(11-26-2023, 12:19 AM)BoatBallast Wrote: I took the boys to Willard today. Launched about 0730 and fished until about 1200. Ended up with 3 perch, 14.5", 12.5", and 7". All caught on Mepps Bantam Syclops in shades of green on worms and chub minnows.
Plenty of them on the finder. But, I think they have all the dead shad they want to eat readily available right now.
Nice work. What a lot of folks don't consider is that in addition to having plenty of natural food (shadlets) the perch also are operating on lower metabolism. The same cold water that is croaking the shad is slowing the perch down. They move slower, eat less and take longer to digest their food. So it is not uncommon to see more fish on sonar than on the end of your line.
Always good to get the younguns out. Fishing is always good...even if the catchin' ain't.