Rockport Perch Jerkin' 8-6-24

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I love watching the Osprey nests all they way from Henefer to RP. Tough birds sitting over thier young in hail storms or heat domes. But watching them hunt is a real treat. Glad the perch behaved i have a video dropping tonight for RP but is was a week or so ago. Big ones are getting harder to find from the shore. I expect the heat is driving them down a bit past my cast range again.

Yeah, I found LOTS of fish close to shore.  But my two biggest came on dragging a whirly flig deeper.  In fact, I actually caught two fish at 42 feet.  Saw some "bottom anomalies" as I was cruising through and dropped down to see if maybe they were trout.  Nope.  Bigger perch.  Also got a few in 22 - 25 feet.

But the bigger perch may be feeding differently...and on bigger baby perch.  When there is a lot of food sometimes the predators will glut for only a few minutes each day and then just lay around and burp until they feed again. Here\s a pic of a baby perch that got barfed up.