Jumbo island perch and walleye sat.

[Russ Hunsaker]

You will see the pack roughly hundred boats, we used ulgly stick short light rods and handled well, the white perch were hitting it before the bottom, the perch were in the mud, with heavy sinker it got past the junk and gave the perch a chance, we still got farm amminals but not as much.

We went out this morning and I went south of Kelley's to get out of the wind/waves and sat right down on perch...white perch one after another. We caught 10 white perch for every yellow perch. I ended up filleting a white perch and using cut bait because they couldn't get it off of the hook as easy as minnows.

I have NEVER caught white perch like that. I only got a couple of sheeps but one of them broke the base right off of one of my perch reels. They weren't breaking my line anymore but breaking my reel is what happens when you put 30lb braid on an ultralight reel.

[wakina]

We went out this morning and I went south of Kelley's to get out of the wind/waves and sat right down on perch...white perch one after another. We caught 10 white perch for every yellow perch. I ended up filleting a white perch and using cut bait because they couldn't get it off of the hook as easy as minnows.

I have NEVER caught white perch like that. I only got a couple of sheeps but one of them broke the base right off of one of my perch reels. They weren't breaking my line anymore but breaking my reel is what happens when you put 30lb braid on an ultralight reel.

Sounds like you are having a drag issue with your reels! Line wt. does not affect your drag settings. Set your drag like you are using 6lb or 8lb line even if you are using 30lb braid, the drag will still work like you are using the lighter lines as stated and you should not have anymore issues with breaking reels.

[Russ Hunsaker]

Sounds like you are having a drag issue with your reels! Line wt. does not affect your drag settings. Set your drag like you are using 6lb or 8lb line even if you are using 30lb braid, the drag will still work like you are using the lighter lines as stated and you should not have anymore issues with breaking reels.

I know how to tighten my reel drag but I tightened my drags as tight as I could get them so I could horse the stupid things in so they wouldn't tangle up any other lines. I never thought I would break the reel seats off.