01-02-2014, 06:53 PM
After a rotten New Years start at Strawberry, only catching (and releasing) 3 rainbows, 10 to 14" we headed over to Starvation at 1:30 p.m. to try for it's rainbow. After about 1.5 hours of worthless effort we headed out to the deeper 52 foot waters to see what was happening out there. The sonar was blank but after about 5 minutes or so of banging and rattling a Rattlin Rapala off the bottom my son hooked up on what we thought was a small walleye. To our "disappointment" and amazement he had caught a 12" perch. It was no fluke, he ended up with ony 6 perch but they were all at least 10" long. He also had a nice walleye on but lost it just below the hole. I caught 8 decent perch from 8" to 10" using more typical perch lures. We had perch under us for most of the time from 3:00 to 4:30 but they just weren't the easiest to coax into biting. One guy in the group could see the perch on his flasher but couldn't hook them and was very frustrated. We wished we had started out there earlier. We were south of the bridge, from there you'll have to search on your own. Oh and ice was clear 10.5".
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