Echo

[Cowboypirate]

I fished a tournament there on Saturday and there there was a huge clouds of perch below the cliffs that they jump off the ones I caught were around the 6" range maybe smaller.

That does not suprise me at all. If I was a perch I would hang out over there too. How did you do in the tournament?

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I really don't enjoy going to Echo in July/Aug and so far this year have just ignored it. Odd as it is the closet body of water to me. Why? Well as a bank tangler my options are pretty crowded at Echo as the beach lovers mob the places I can access and the small craft live in those coves playing splash your girl friend. But this morning, after a really big early thunder storm, I decided to drop over. Figured the storm would have most everyone indoors this morning. That was most mostly true, including the fish. I searched a few likely places for perch with my castable sonar but did not locate any active perch. Not even any little ones chasing my floating jig in. I did catch a few very small small mouth. Maybe the storm put them off too?

Anywho I have not really seen any ( or very many at least) Echo reports this summer and I am wondering if it had the bumper crop on young perch and bass that i have seen at RP PV EC Jordy? Mostly curious about how the future looks as the indicators for our other local water seem very positive. 

On a side note. Next time I try Echo I am wanting to pullover in the rest area on the highway side and hike down the steep hill. I am guessing that not a lot of banktanglers do that. Mostly just kids cliff jumping. Should prove intresting

Not sure what you mean by bumper crop, but a few weeks ago in July on Echo, I had perch chase in my 2 1/2 inch tickle tail and would try to bite it. I’m guessing too small to get their mouth on it. 
Gabe

Gabe i am not sure I can quantify " bumper crops" for ya. I Tend to use a lot of wordy words, But I have been swarmed at times at each the other lakes by 2- 5 inch perch close to shore. I shared some underwater footage at RP of this. Just feels like some really good spawn rates thus year and was hopping the same for echo ( maybe even some crappie or cats?)