Water Dogs~ Perch Report

[waterdog]

15 yellow perch SE of G can, 4 hours and 5 pounds at the cleaners. Not many but nice fish~!
5 throw backs, 6 white perch, 4 sheep head and one fish ohio catfish.
Spreaders, golden shiners, in 22 fow. Very light bite~!
I had a visitor today, this finch flew into my pilot house and landed on the back of my life jacket (yes shocked me too, did not matter that someone was in it) and then went to the back flap of my rolled up rear cover.
This little guy then proceeded to search my boat from the bow to the stern for spiders and bugs. He ate well is all I can say.
The kicker had some extra goodies for this little visitor.

Hard to set the hook when perched on my perch pole~!
With the fog you could not see shore line and my bug eater left when the fog lifted.
Nature is a wonderful and sometimes surprising, this visit made my day~!
~tight lines and be safe~!
~Water Dog

[LEfriend]

Neat post. Good to hear you are back. Looking forward to hearing about a limit from you again one of these days. Did you check any stomachs?

If you want to attract Finches plant a good patch of "Zinderella" variety Zinnias. Finches love them. We have dozens of Finches coming in every day and eating the petals off as fast as they can bloom. They must be attracted to this particular plant because the flower petals stand bit more more straight out and bit more spread out than the traditional Zinnia. The Finches must weigh absolutely nothing because they will land on these flowers with thin little stems and not even bend them. Sit on top of a bloom and pick the petals clean in a less than a minute. We are losing a lot of blooms right now but a blast to watch them eat.

[Eyezcrazy]

15 yellow perch SE of G can, 4 hours and 5 pounds at the cleaners. Not many but nice fish~!
5 throw backs, 6 white perch, 4 sheep head and one fish ohio catfish.
Spreaders, golden shiners, in 22 fow. Very light bite~!
I had a visitor today, this finch flew into my pilot house and landed on the back of my life jacket (yes shocked me too, did not matter that someone was in it) and then went to the back flap of my rolled up rear cover.
This little guy then proceeded to search my boat from the bow to the stern for spiders and bugs. He ate well is all I can say.
The kicker had some extra goodies for this little visitor.

Hard to set the hook when perched on my perch pole~!
With the fog you could not see shore line and my bug eater left when the fog lifted.
Nature is a wonderful and sometimes surprising, this visit made my day~!
~tight lines and be safe~!
~Water Dog

Nice experience WD. That would have made my day too! We also have many finches at our place and monitor several Bluebird nesting boxes on our property. Simple pleasures in life are great!

[dansdad]

So you are a believer in luring them in with the motor running trick also??

[gbbm1570]

I agree. We limited on Wednesday near G can. Every time the bite slowed, I turned on the motor and they would start up again.

[waterdog]

2 19" milking walleye, lost one at the boat and had 4 hook ups, but they did not hold.
perch spreader did not produce on the bottom with emerald shiners and no bling.
(perch spreader is looking for yellow gold) seems like the limit of 30 yellow perch may be in question soon.
NW of Lakefront Marina in 15 fow.
Using a green hair jig with stinger hook tipped with shiners.
I cast the jigs and bounce them on bottom back to the boat, not always easy with a fast drift, next time the drift sock goes out.
9 am to noon, not many boats in the area.
wind did pick up and went from a .7 mph drift to 1.4 mph drift.
back at it soon weather permitting.
Be Safe,
~Water Dog

[waterdog]

SE of G can in 23 fow on both days.

May 13th I did drift with a spreader with shiners and using a gold erie deerie and a night crawler.
Caught 2 white perch on the erie deerie, and a nice yellow perch on the spreader, so went to the honey hole SE of G can to see if the Yellow Gold was there.
Plenty of sheep head, 10 yellow perch and some young walleye (released unharmed but educated).

May 14th same set up as May 13th, a few sheep head, so back to the honey hole SE of G can in 23 fow.
Caught 30 yellow perch, 11 pounds at the cleaners.
Two keeper walleye, 2 nice white bass, 2 small walleye released and plenty of sheep head.
The cleaners told me the yellow perch were all spawned out~! So these were some real fatty hog's.

Several head boats working the area on both days for walleye, other boaters were drifting and not many trolling.
Did not see anyone fishing for perch, other than this dog.




~back soon
~Water Dog

[dansdad]

Beautiful day out there today Dog. First trip of the year. Left the portage at 8:15 and was back by noon. 6 fish with 5 over 19". 13 down off Bessie. 5 of them on Black hair jig with white eyes.

[waterdog]

3 hours today, 30 yellow perch 9 pounds at the cleaners.
using emerald and golden shiner mix.
spreaders and no bling in 22 fow.
many boats in the area including 4 head boats.
still seeing the puked up gobies in the bottom of my boat.
bite was better early when the wind was moving me in the swing and stalled after the wind died down.
did have to run the boat engine for about 5 minutes to get them back at it~!
2 young walleye (returned and educated) NO Sheep Head, however 4 white perch and one small white bass.
I did have some sorting, 2 yellow perch were given a chance to get bigger.
~ this week is really is looking good so hopefully you can get out and get some yellow perch.
~Water Dog

[waterdog]

Well, I hope all have been safe and survived the virus.
Will keep you all posted on the perch spreader drag and the walleye catch in the combo.
The best part of this season is that I will be able to bring family and some friends.
Be safe and be smart~!
Looking forward to another season on the Western Basin.
~ Water Dog