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Three of us caught our limit two days in a row about a mile north of 'B' Can. I have learned, thanks to other posts, that no "bling" spreaders or plain hooks with a split shot are the way to go. It made about a 3:1 difference over my buddies who refused to try it.
Did you ever try cutting your minnow in half ? Yeah cut it in half sometimes it works to get picky fish to bite. I don't know if its just the size or if it puts oil or something in water faster but it works. And you will miss less bites because the fish is going to have the hook in his mouth if he bites it.
thats what we do and it works great for us.
we use half minnow all the time with live one also, just keep them small, frozen ones work, trick to better bites and bigger perch, is single hook, 12 to 16 inch lead one bead on line,
chartuse, white or dark red is best, keep it on the bottom with a little slack line and lift gently, perch will swallow or lip hook
almost every time. sinker size is important, finky fish small sinker or even split shots, heavy waves or fast bitters 1 ounces sinker, just meets their needs.
Capt. Mike and Wayne, Reel Sport Charters
Do any of you guys ever use salted shiners? With success?
Never tried salted minnows? But I have used frozen minnows. They work but get mushy and come off the hook more easily than live minnows. One more thing I sometimes do if all else fails . I take an small extra anchor with me and bounce it on the bottom to stir things up down there. This can sometimes make them bite. Sometimes right away sometimes you have to wait a little bit. It don't always work but if you are not catching its worth a try.. Good Luck
one thing we always due is to keep engine running in idel speed,
bite gets good shut off engine , bite slow down start engine up again, works everytime.
I know one thing that we always do and that is to pull out our money go to the store and buy some perch. For some reason that always works.
How much fun is that?Quote:
Originally Posted by Ranger1
What Wayne said - idle engine.
I also believe that the half minnow works best once the fish start bitting. I believe this is because the fish that you are reeling in are trying to spit the hook and therefore are spitting out minnows they have already eaten and these fall to the bottom. Other fish come along and eat these minnow pieces and if you are using a half minnows it looks just like another piece of minnow to be eaten.
I have used salted minnows for years with great success. Here is a good recipe. I add a little garlic. Follow the directions closely. http://www.lakemichiganangler.com/ti...ed_minnows.htm
Wayne is right.. Perch are curius any kind of noise they come swiming.. Plus I believe they have learned that when a boat motor starts the fisherman throw their minnows overboard and they get an easy meal of tired stressed out minnows. Another trick is not to bring your first fish up right away make the fish swim around on the bottom and stir some silt up witch will bring other perch to see what all the action is. I fish two rods and keep a fish hooked up all the time in between my crew to keep the action going. I rotate the fish on the poles so they dont get to tired down their
Thanks for the article on salting...pretty interesting. Good tip Skipper, we'
ve been keeping a perch on like that for years when we ice fish. It works great if the fishing is on the slow side or if everybody has their line up at the same time. A flashy jigging spoon jigged a few times will sometimes bring them screaming back in.
I can't remember what they call it but there is a contraption that some guys use to pound the bottom with while perch fishing. It stirrs up the bottom and is said to attract the perch. I think it's like a small piece of pipe over a rope that is lowered like an anchor and then worked up and down to stirr up the mud on the bottom. I'll try and find info.
Heading out of Lakefront Sunday for Walleye. Bringing crew of 6 up from WV. Hoping to score on drifting. Captain has trolling gear but we'ld rather cast and drift. Anyone got any suggestions? Would appreciate any comments.
Let the captain troll and find an active pod of fish and pull the gear and work that small area over drifting and casting. Its alot of work but is the most productive way to fish this time of year. You can cover plenty of water find your fish and have a better chance of catching some while casting.. Good Luck
Yes, you can tie a brick to a rope and drop it down to stir up the silt I know guys that would put red flags on the rope like the ones at a car dealer red is suppose to atract them. My father when he was still alive would take an onion bag with a five pound weight in it and put 5 cans of canned cat food with holes punched in the cans and drop it down to the bottom and every once in awhile shake it and the oily cat food would attract the perch. I remember being the only boat in a the pack catching fish.. Good memories.. Good Luck the walleye fishing has been to darn good to even think about perch fishing yet. I am loving this nice big fish this year.. I may take some minnows out in the morning. I have a short crew so after we get our limit of eye. Maybe we can get a limit of perch.. That would be nice...
Got our limit again today half mile northeast of can. Nice fish but slow bite today for us