6/29 this blow…blows!

Was waiting out the wind. Put in about 4:00pm. Made the short, and somewhat protected trip to my perch spot north of ballast. Anchored up , and immediately started catching. 4 in the box in 15 minutes plus a couple under 8” that went back then just shut off. Nothing else for an hour. Picked up and went north of East point. To rough to troll, so I just did some casting. Throwing weapons with 1/2 a crawler. Decent action for a couple hours. Lots of short strikes. Some shorts, and a couple farm. Ended up with 2 eaters. The 4 perch were on minnows on homemade double perch rigs. As an aside. Has anyone ever caught crappie around middle bass. I was waiting for the wind to die so I had a rod in the water in the marina, and caught a nice 12” on my perch rig. I often throw a line in off the big boat. Catch a couple perch from time to time just never any crappie. Seems odd! The marina is dead flat mostly silt bottom with no cover.

I caught a huge crappie several years ago trolling east of middle island.Have caught a few in the marina where used to keep our boat on Catawba.

Used to fish by the minnow boats in the marina after they took their catch and left. Amazing crappie fishing. Would last for a couple hours. Probably until all the spilled minnows were gone. This was at the marina just east of east harbor. Great memories with the kids.

Thanks for the replies. I’ve been up here for the summer 4 years now, and just never even saw a crappie. Just dumb luck I guess. I may wonder over to all the submerged cover by the trees, and target them just to see if there are more. Something to do while I wait for the wind to die down. To rough to make the trip east, or north right now. I usually just smallie fish when it’s nasty, but hey…I’d rather catch something to eat instead.