The wife and I were able to get away for a perch trip today. We got to A&J Baits just in time to get emerald shiners as they were just bringing in a 5 gallon pail full when we arrived.

Headed out to B-Can area and slowed down to search for perch marks but the wife throwed a fit about the bugs (they were awful) so we ran over to C-can, bugs still bad so then on to Niagra. We set up about 500 yards SE from the can, the bugs were not very bad and they totally disappeared in the first half hour or so. We caught several in the first few minutes that we were there but only kept 6, the bite slowed down but the size improved. The action was not down and up but it was a steady bite with lots of small perch mixed in with the larger perch and very little junk. They totally shut off around 1pm so we headed in.

We finished the day with 52 perch in the cooler that went 17lbs at the cleaners so it was not a bad catching day by any means, and even without the perch (bonus) it would have been a beautiful day on the lake once the bugs left!

Friends back at the dock knocked the snot out of the perch at D-Can, 5 guys 150 perch and they left the dock at the same time we did and were back cleaning fish when we returned, the size looked like mostly 8" or better. The down side was that, they said the bugs were at times almost unbearable and their clothes showed it.