sunday perching, new way to perch

[wayne johnson]

went back to same place as sat, 11 miles out west of west sister, calm seas changed the fishing, everyone strugglle
and at noon perch shut off, we had 60 at noon, move to
mcdonalds bouy (green and white) no one doing anything,
watch one person jigging doing a little, sea went dead calm,
so we change our gear to one quater ounce split shot, with
eighteen inch lead one bead and a red hook, one rod we keep
close to boat on bottom with 2 ft/ of slack line, the our we
cast out 25 ft. or so open the bail and let settle to bottom
with slack line, wait a minute, and slowly brought it in
like walleye casting, it work like a charm caught 210 more perch
in next 5 hours while everyone else caught nothing, final
catch 9 man limit 270 perch 59.75 lbs. water very green from mcdonalds
to shore. Dicks had great minnows today.

[jjoshin2]

thats a new mix.I've tried similar,just added 18 inch leader off of center weight loop on the spreader and followed similar casting,gets tangled if your not careful when casting though.
I have noticed the red hooks work very well when the bite is light,a #2 to keep em from swallowing too far.
Fish On!!!!!!!

[rscotfish]

friday northwest of west sister 3 man limit fish all 9-12 inchers spreaders on bottom no bling. saterday was a little slower but got some nice fish 5 guys 130 fish same place same way. sunday was even slower for us 5 guys 100 fish again nice fish 8 - 11 no 12s again same place same way but we did switch to some bling on sunday great weekend of lake erie fishing nice when your perching and you think its a sheephead only to find jumbo doubles

[Cherokee35]

Fished Friday through Monday, 5 miles out of Cooley Canal at 30 degrees. 3 man limit every day, just off the bottom using gold spreaders and true turn hooks (red). Each day got a little harder to limit, size was mostly 7 - 9.