Starvin in the new year

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Took a party out to starvation tuesday looking for some steelhead.

We set up on the east side of the lake in 50' of water. No fish, move. 40'. No fish, move. 30'. found a few willing bows but not much more.

We spent the next few hours plugging holes and looking for more trout and any perch. Found the perch in 60' of water but didn't make any earnest efforts to pull them up.

Ended the day with a few good bows each but a very slow day, all in all. I even pulled in one small walleye to my surprise! At the trucks we talked with some local boys who knocked the perch dead (including one 12" fish!) at 60' and caught a couple lunker browns, looks like we should have been deeper after all....Oh well, good start to the season!

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[Charina]

I was out there tuesday as well. Moved around a few times until I finally found the perch. 49 ft deep and non-stop action for a few hours. Landed three that were very close to, if not over 11 inches. (my hand span is 9.25 inches, and they looked to be 2 inches longer than that.

Couldn't find the rainbows though.
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[Charina]

[font "Calibri"]Forgot to add . . . the perch were hitting pretty much anything. Taking the swedish pimple used as flasher/weight, and the 1/80th oz jig beneath it, as well as 1/8 oz jig with 2 inch plastic body, etc. Location seemed to matter far more than presentation. Bite was aggressive early on, and light/subtle by about noon. [/font]
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[Hookinup]

We fished all day there Tuesday as well. Got there an hour after sunrise and left about an hour before sunset. Our party caught tons of perch, two walleye, and about 20 rainbows. Fun stuff! Need a good sensitive pole for those perchies!!!!
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