Perch

[Gettin Jiggy]

I did good at Niagara, Friday June 5th, using minows in 29 fow. We caught about 29 good yellow perch and the bigest was 13 inches.

Thanks for the reply> Have you had any luck this week?

[waterdog]

Got 16 nice perch, 8-10 inch range, no real hogs, but nice none the least.
Only fished about 2 hours just east of the green can at Niagara reef in 29 fow using spreaders with minows and no bling. Had a night crawler on one half of the spreader to see if the perch would like that but we had no takers!
The bite was real light and I think those mayflies have even affected the perch fishing too!

[Root beer float]

I had a good friend take their boat out of Lorain last Sunday perch fishing. Four of them caught 40 nice fish. When one of the guys handed his rod to the young girl to reel in, what he thought was a really big sheephead, she hauled in a 31" 10.5 lb Walleye. Not bad for a little perch spreader and a minnow. That just made their day. You just never know what's gonna happen out there, that's why we gotta get out there.

[Labshavit]

Waterdog where are you going out off to get to Niagra and how far of a run is it?

[spoontang]

Oak Harbor would be closest if there is a launch and would put you within 8 miles of Niagra. I use the Portage River and it is 10.5 miles at 346 heading. The West launch from catawba would put you abou the same distance or a little closer. 9 miles or so at a 325 roughly but check that one out before you run it.

[waterdog]

Fished by E can and caught 12 7-8 inch perch. There was this green floating chunks of algae in the water. Went out south of Niagara and drifted. Caught sheephead and one throwback walleye 14". Was using may fly rig tiped with a night crawler. Waves were 1 foot or less and the drift was .5 mph. Nice!

[waterdog]

Got 12 perch today, did it drifting. Put a spreader out with two minows and casting a mayfly rig in 20 fow. I started out east of round reef. Caught one 15" walleye, and 12 sheephead. Several sheephead were 22 ".
great drift .5 mph then by noon wind picked up.

[Labshavit]

Fished off MarbleHead and put 44 in the box on Monday and put 40 in the box today. Minnows cut in half really seems to turn them on.

[waterdog]

Fished just east of Niagara Reef in 30 fow anchored for perch. Caught 16 8-10 inch perch and 2 walleye. Walleye were 18-20 inches. Lost one walleye at the boat. For the walleye used a mayfly rig with night crawler fished right on the bottom. For the perch used a spreader with ninows right on the bottom.
Caught 8 sheephead and a few white perch. Great day on the lake weather wise