Perch Fishing

[wnyguy]

I went out after some minnows today at the foot of ferry and they were skittish and hard to get. That was around 2:30pm. Just an FYI.

Good luck tomorrow I hope to be there as well.

[milt]

has anybody fish the buffalo area for perch or should i just go to sp thx
milt

[wnyguy]

Went out to the same spot I hit a couple of weeks ago (6 miles west of sturgeon) and caught nothing but small perch. Pretty fast action at first, but these fish weren't even close to keeping. We moved a number of times, 60 to 70 feet of water and never caught a perch 10 or more inches. I marked various schools in different areas but nothing big. We caught a lot of small fish, but moved a lot as well trying to find the big boys. Even tried a mile out in front of sp where we caught them in november last year but no luck there. (only tried for 15 minutes) Seemed like most boats did similar from who I talked to and lots of boats moving around.

How about that north wind that picked up out of nowhere? Wind started blowing and white caps appeared like some evil curse haha. Then things died down and it actually got real calm out there.

[lineman49]

Got out this Am. West of SP 70 fow caught lots of small ones kept 80-100 better ones maybe 8-10 over 13". Lots of boats out today! Fished dons. wall last night got 2 a 21 & 24 " eyes.

[captainjoe]

Went out SP. Like you said WNYGUY. Nice, wind, sun, hot, cool etc. Many fish. The first time limiting out. Thank you Barry & crew. He told us where to go & and j used the salted minnows that he gave me 2 weeks ago. Lets get some big ones next week. Fishkilker- what do you have to say? Where have you been?

[bailey]

Way to go capt, glad to hear you did well today my ole ride crapped out so lookin for new wheels ha ha. I can't complain the ford was beat preety hard since i bought it. My old saying is its either gonna go or she's gonna blow well she picked option B lol. Oh yeah where is fishon51? He's been quieter than fishkiller ha ha

[bailey]

Pheasants are yummy little morsels to barry. Bread up some fingers n fish make a great surf n turf. Are they preserve birds?

[wnyguy]

Lineman were there many boats with you? One of my spots was 70 ft and there were only a couple of boats there when I stopped about 10:30am. (It grew to about 8 or so) I threw back almost all of mine the majority were under 9.5 inches.

[fishkiller16]

I was out today with a perch charter, we ended up with 36 keepers over 10 inches, and well over 100 that we throw back. We also had a nice 8.5 pound Walleye as a bonus. 68 foot of water around the 40 / 10 line. A couple of guys from work we're fishing next to us they ended up with 50 keepers. They were keeping some smaller fish than us. It was tough getting bait out of the river today, but we got enough for 2 boats worth. I should be going back out either Wednesday or Friday.

[lineman49]

I counted 37 boats by us. There was another fleet that looked like they were in front of the Catt. We threw a bunch back but I don't like that most die. I wish I knew what to do with the bladder& let them live, any ideas??