perch 7/29/12

**elrod00** · 07-30-2012, 09:58 AM

Sunday we fished about 4 miles NW of the intake. Light bite stealing bait. Few junk fish but not many. Fishing no bling on the bottom. Did better once we satrted cutting the minnows in half and double hooking the halfs. On the bottom with no bling using Crappie rigs. 18-20 feet of water. 3 people and 18lbs at the cleaners. Would have gotten a lot more had we started cutting the minnows earlier but we ran out of bait. Caught one really big Rock Bass. Lost one rod when fish pulled it from the wifes hands. Hit like a Walleye and we have been catching a few Walleyes in this area on perch rigs. Perch size were ok but only a few in the 10-12 inch range. Quite a few doubles.

**fish/n/chics** · 07-30-2012, 11:23 AM

Elrod you had to be close toward my direction...white pontoon blue binini top

**elrod00** · 07-30-2012, 09:16 PM

Did you come in ti Mienke's? If so you were comming in when I went out.

**troy1976** · 07-31-2012, 08:27 AM

elrod how close to the shipping channel were you? We fished pretty close to where you were and couldn't get a bite.

**elrod00** · 07-31-2012, 07:51 PM

Quite a ways from the channel. Comming from Mienke's (Anchor point) NW couse and 6.7 miles. There is a drop off line on the charts. I've been fishing anywhere along that line on the deeper side. There is an area of rocky bottom that I have the most luck when I can find it. But anywhere along that line seems to work well. Been fishing it 2 yrs. now and never had a real bad day.

**troy1976** · 08-01-2012, 07:56 AM

thanks for the information. What kind of boat do you have?

**elrod00** · 08-01-2012, 05:04 PM

The course may have been a little more NNW. I have an older 27' Bayliner. It's a sundeck but I had a convertible top special made for it. I take good care of it and it runs good. Not the greatest fishing boat but the price was right. One advantage to her design is she can handle some really rough water. Deep draft though at 40 inches.

**youngster** · 08-06-2012, 11:21 AM

my dad brother and i went out between niagra and c can staying towards the outside of the pack about half a mile and were six shy of three man limit. only handful of small but average was around nine to ten inchers. definately a ton of white bass around though. about three white bass to one perch on average. you using spreaders?