Water Dogs~ Perch Report

[waterdog]

fished east of Niagara Reef today. got a late start. many boats in the area and most were trolling, but we did see some drifters.
the trollers were doing good, at least the ones that went by our boat.
we saw 3 walleye caught by the trollers that troller near our anchored boat.
we got 25 nice perch, with few throw backs and one really nice white bass. we caught some nice white perch too.
our bigest jumbo was 12 inches.
we were using spreaders with shiners on the bottow in 29 fow.
the crapie rigs did not do as well as the spreaders today.
attached is a photo of some of the bigest.

[waterdog]

15 nice yellow perch jumbos.
1 large catfish, 2 white bass, 6 white perch and one sheep head.
fished about 2 hours just west of the Catawba water tower.
17 fow , spreaders no bling with shiners, lite bit for those yellow perch.
there were some walleye drifters there and they were pullen some walleye.

[waterdog]

We perched fished just north of Rattlesnake Island and south west of Sugar Island.
30 fow using spreaders, minows and crawlers on the bottom.
caught 20 white perch, 15 yellow perch, 8 channel cats, 10 sheephead and some white bass.
`the biggest perch was 13"~NICE~
the wind~waves were too much in the am for us or we would have fished the reefs.

[waterdog]

Took my lucky charm fishing today (wife). We fished for 2 hours, and caught 14 nice yellow perch (largest 11 inches) , some throw backs in 28 fow using spreaders, shiners and no bling. as always a very light bite. did catch 9 white perch, and about 18 sheep head~!
gota love those sheep head~~!
There were about 15 boats perch fishing just east of rattlesnake.
And 5 boats fishing just north of Green Island.

[waterdog]

The may fly hatch is out in force.
Rumor has it that this will affect the perch fishing.
I still see many "balls of may fly's" on my fish finder~!
Not sure how much longer this will last, but they are not done!
~fish on

[waterdog]

got 28 nice perch at "H" can.... nice day on the lake... shiners on the bottom with spreaders an no bling...my lucky charm got a double jumbo 12 inchers....
Fished for 2 hours....

[waterdog]

My last post for walleye says it all. ~ "no walleye for you" (ok maybe 2)
Ok .... now I know that in the past I have switched over to perchen soon after the walleye spawn..... because I could not get it "going on" with the walleye drift. However.. since I have been doing the "trolling thing" I have caught more walleye then ever before. ( I was an avid lets drift and cast kind of fisher dude) ........somehow over the winter months my boat "Water Dog" gave berth to... yes ... a 9.9 kicker motor~! Well.... my wife doubts that but I know that all of you that read this post will agree.. with my version.
Somehow... redoing the bathroom just did not measure up with the kicker motor....~Fish On~