perch

[shawnb1977]

any perch around kellys or maybe cederpoint?

[LUNKER21]

Seen lots of boats anchored just east of kellys, in 40 ft of water, seen several perch pulled out, was pry 30 boats in a group

[shawnb1977]

thanks for the report guys

[Rebel-1]

Started out Sat. morning from Gem Beach Marina and was going to fish for walleye between Niagra and Green Is. and the lake turns us to fish on the leeway side of the Islands, Balist Is. shoals. Caught around 50 perch and the lake turned into 2 to 3 footers in the afternoon, so we decided to go to Gull shoals, and fished the rest of day for walleye. Nothing but sheephead. Should have stayed perching. Sunday we went back to Balist Is. shoals and we caught 100 perch from 7:45 to 10:00am and ran out of minnows. 5 fishing in our boat. Cardinal sin, always buy enought minnows for the Islands do not have a bait stores. Rookie mistake.

[skipper9]

Yes, North East of ballast island many limits caught saturday morning by 3 head boats and 3 friends of mine.. I did not see them but they said they were nice size fish. My brother got theirs on sunday morning their he said they were 8.6 lbs per limit..

[walleye2go]

You're right on. We limited in between Ballast an N bass and they were right at 8 lbs a limit.

[RUSS]

was out by west sis got ...all good size even a few 12 s. i think one was almost 14..right around 8 # per man..dont get me wrong there where some throw backs..just about every one hit the box ....think just a single hook and a couple of split shot did get the bigger fish..by the end nobody had a spreader on... pulled some boards on the way home..got 2 eyes mostly white bass..a few sheeps still a great day to be out on the water.....

[wakina]

You're right on. We limited in between Ballast an N bass and they were right at 8 lbs a limit.

I can't picture where you were fishing as you would have to be offshore of Ballast quite aways in order to see north bass as middle bass would be blocking your view.
Lucy's Point can give up some nice perch catches at times also.

[skipper9]

The pack of boats saturday perch fishing were north of balast and south of middle bass they would not of seen northbass.
I worked east of that area really hard saturday. two boats were on lucys casting for whatever. The rest were over in the pack perch fishing north of balast. I dont blam them finding shelter their. It was very sporty out their lots of 5's and bigger. I wish I would of had a crew that would of perched fished in the am.

[ryguy2010]

damn guys, sounds like some good perchin over there. do any of you guys dock west of catawba island? if so, how do you run to the east or NE side of ballast island? between PIB and middle bass? then around the north side of ballast? i know the south side of ballast is tricky right?