Perch Fishing

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Went out of sturgeon this morning. Headed west. Met up with a ton of boats in 69 fow. Perch were all over and thick but small. They were suspended at 55-60. Caught a few keepers but would lose them at the boat. Lots of 7-8inchers. Must have caught a 150+ fish. Line would hit the bottom flip the bail closed and boom doubles almost every time. All on minnows. Gave up there and headed to silver creek. 58fow. Some boats were there also. Then we started to catch keepers. Biggest was 14in. There's a lot of bait out there right now. On the surface and down deeper. In fact they were so thick at times you could feel the school swim into the lines. Interesting side note. All the fish out at 69fow were spitting up crushed and half digested zebra mussels. They were full of them. When we moved down to silver creek, the perch were spitting up small gobys and minnows. One hacked up a 5 inch smelt (I think it was.) Also got a few white perch mixed in and one fatty sheepie out at 70ft.