Perch

[waterdog]

caught 25 perch, 8-11" in 30 fow nw of rattlesnake island.
Was using a spreader tiped with minnows, atached to a 2 oz bottom bouncer, it was windy for most of the am, then it settled down. I was drifting for the most part of the day, was trying to catch walleyes.
For the walleye I was using a golden mayfly tiped with a night crawler, I caught perch on it, some nice 11" ones, on that rig.

[waterdog]

Fished just east of the green buoy at Niagara Reef in 29 fow and caught a two man limit of nice yellow perch. Caught a few white perch but no sheep head and no walleye. A real soft bite! Caught some nice jumbos! A few throwbacks. We were using minows and a spreader and no bling.

[waterdog]

Fished just east of the green buoy at Niagara Reef in 29 fow and caught a two person limit of nice yellow perch. A soft bite, with some more agressive hits mixed in! Caught some nice jumbos! A few throwbacks. We were using minows and a spreader and no bling. Most fish were 8 inchers. Got the limit in two hours!

[Gettin Jiggy]

Waterdog, Are you in a hard top thompson?

[PearlHDFatboy]

Anyone have luck catching sizable perch off Lorain this past weekend?

Most who perched were in 40 fow, 2 miles out this past weekend. Best bites were off Beaver Park, but lots of small ones (D'Arcy's report was right on). Also tried off Avon Pt. both east (lots of white perch) and west, but no real bites there. Stopped at Ardicks, and he showed me buckets full of perch in the 4-5" size that idiots brought him. Ridiculous!

I sent my underwater camera down to record and see what was down there on Sunday, and really, there were no big ones down there at all, hardly any fish around. I'll be back out in Lorain on Sunday to find them again... I have a feeling the large ones are 6+ miles out off Lorain like they were in late Aug-Sept last year.

After giving up on the perch, I picked up 2 eyes (24" & 26") on green erie dearies 6-7 miles out @ the 38-15 line. 'Eyes were suspended around 16-18 feet.

[waterdog]

caught 22 nice perch , just east of Niagara Reef in 29 fow.
only fished about an hour, took the ladies and one got feeling sea sick so we pulled up anchor and went back to port!
real soft bite!

[waterdog]

caught 61 perch, just east of Niagara reef in 29 fow.
some throw backs, but still caught some good eating size.
There were about 12 white perch too! 8 Sheephead 1 rock bass and no walleye. Did catch a double gobie!

[Labshavit]

caught 42 west of rattlesnake weight 11 lbs. Big pack of boats just North of us off of North Bass and west of west reef. Big pack south of of us off Green. Not sure how the others faired. We were in 32 feet of water

[BigWally]

fished off north bass.same place as the last three weeks.we caught a 3 man limit but not the quality fish we've before.a few 10s but mostly 7 to 9 inch fish.75 weighed 15 lbs.

[waterdog]

two man perch limit in 2 hours near "G" can in 20 fow.
a lot of white perch too
no sheep head, and a few gobies.
perch just shut down a 12:00 noon!
had to work for the last four perch to limit out
Great Day on the lake