10-14-2015, 09:51 PM
[#0000FF]Of my three options this morning, Starvy won out in the weather forecast - fishing potential race. Wind forecast improved overnight so I made a low flying solo shot at Bunny Gulch.
On the water by 7:30. Air temp 45 and water temp just over 59. Still way warm for this time of year. Water level is still up too. Only a few inches lower than two weeks ago. The rock reef out in front of the camp area is still partially underwater...but a truck drove through the wet spot just fine to fish off the rocks.
First of many perch within minutes of launching. Saw quite a few small groups at first. Then got into a couple of areas that were covered with them...from the bottom to within a few feet of the top. Perch stacks. Only problem was trying to get through the dinks to find something big enough to fillet.
Watched sonar as I moved around. Dropped down only when I saw just a few larger marks and no big clouds of dinksters. That helped put some bigger fish in the basket. Got quite a few 9 inchers, a few 10 inchers and one at 11 inches. Lost a "footlong" at the tube when he arranged an early release.
Went through a dozen crawlers pretty fast playing with the bitty biters. Switched to some "PPP" (processed perch pieces) I made up last night and started hooking a bigger class of dinks...along with some basket fish.
Later on I started throwing some Gulp minnows, hoping to catch something toothy. No luck. But did hang some decent perch on them. Also caught the only rainbow of the day on a Gulp minnow. A nice 21" Starvy Steelie. Zinged my string a lot better than those puny perch.
Clear and sunny with light breezes all morning. The standard easterly zephyr started tuning up about noon so I gathered up the few perch I had kept, and the single 'bow, and headed for the barn.
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On the water by 7:30. Air temp 45 and water temp just over 59. Still way warm for this time of year. Water level is still up too. Only a few inches lower than two weeks ago. The rock reef out in front of the camp area is still partially underwater...but a truck drove through the wet spot just fine to fish off the rocks.
First of many perch within minutes of launching. Saw quite a few small groups at first. Then got into a couple of areas that were covered with them...from the bottom to within a few feet of the top. Perch stacks. Only problem was trying to get through the dinks to find something big enough to fillet.
Watched sonar as I moved around. Dropped down only when I saw just a few larger marks and no big clouds of dinksters. That helped put some bigger fish in the basket. Got quite a few 9 inchers, a few 10 inchers and one at 11 inches. Lost a "footlong" at the tube when he arranged an early release.
Went through a dozen crawlers pretty fast playing with the bitty biters. Switched to some "PPP" (processed perch pieces) I made up last night and started hooking a bigger class of dinks...along with some basket fish.
Later on I started throwing some Gulp minnows, hoping to catch something toothy. No luck. But did hang some decent perch on them. Also caught the only rainbow of the day on a Gulp minnow. A nice 21" Starvy Steelie. Zinged my string a lot better than those puny perch.
Clear and sunny with light breezes all morning. The standard easterly zephyr started tuning up about noon so I gathered up the few perch I had kept, and the single 'bow, and headed for the barn.
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