Perch

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7/29
This afternoon I went back to that same waypoint (north side of Big Pickerel) that I started fishing last Thursday. It was a very pleasant surprise to still be marking a nice school of perch on the bottom. The waves were 2 to 3 foot which is usually too much for the "spotlock" and requires dropping an anchor, but since I was by myself I figured I'd try the trolling motor. After deploying the ulterra I dropped the rig to the bottom and started raising it up, felt a hit set the hook and pulled up a triple. The perch were biting well and I had 12 in the cooler in 20 minutes. Then the trolling motor quit holding and I was drifting. After mentally chastising myself for not dropping the anchor to start with, I started the boat to head back to my waypoint. When I looked at the sonar there were still good marks on the bottom so I dropped the anchor and went back to fishing, in an hour I had my limit. I was using a 3 hook crappy rig with goldies from Bite Me Bait, 30 perch were 10 lbs at Shatto's
Besides the 30 perch there were 3 sheephead, 6 white perch and 9 six and seven inch perch that were released.