Thread: White perch part 2

What a great day it was today. Perfect weather and lots of action. Used my sonar to get over a huge school of perch, set the anchor and had non stop action for 3.5 hours. Got a few monsters mixed in with mediums and some really little fish. At the end of the day we had 118 perch and 5 big cats on the clicker and 28 in the cooler.

We were able to get some bloodworms but before I knew if we would have them I hit the mother load of grass shrimp down the street from my house. Top and bottom rig with a shrimp on top and a piece of worm on the bottom. This was interesting to me because of my bait experiment earlier in the week. I was convinced that having blood worms would be the magic ticket to a good catch but again, as with the earth worms, the grass shrimp outfished blood worms 2 to 1. The perch loved the shrimp and ate them like candy. The only issue with grass shrimp is that you need to have a ton of them. One good jerk of the rod and they come off, a couple of pecks from a fish and they come off and most of all forget about casting them.

The trip was the last 3 hours of outgoing tide, water temp of 52 degrees. Water depth was 8 feet all the way down to 25 feet depending on which way the boat was swinging. It did seem that the larger fish came from the deeper water but just as many medium and a few large fish were caught shallow so it might have been my imagination since I was on the shallow end of the boat most of the time while my buddy caught the big ones. Here are a few pictures, check out the size of the school!