Thread: A Few From Yesterday

I went fishing yesterday, January 31. I arrived at the ramp early, before the sun came up. It was a beautiful, sunny day, with just enough wind to make you want to get out of it.



I got lucky, and by 12:30 p.m., I was packing it up and heading home with a mess of fish to keep for supper.

I put out a whole group of rods: 8 long ones (16’ and 14’) out front and one short one (7’) on each side of the boat. I pushed hair-jig/minnow, and baby-shad/minnow, combos about 6’ deep in 10 - 16 FOW. The fish seemed to like Cajun Cricket colored, and white hair jigs, the most. The water was a little stained, and the surface temperature was 40 degrees.

The yellow perch were in—mostly males.

I caught a bunch of crappie and yellow perch, one flier and one small striper. I kept 15 of the biggest fish for dinners, and threw back a bunch of smaller ones.



The solunar forecast predicted an “average” bite for that day. I love average…can’t wait for better and best!



Good luck—
Id

Originally Posted by Roy

Love those yellow perch. Nice report and pictures. Good luck to all at the BASH, maybe someday I will get to fish there.

Thanks, Roy. Would be great to see you at the bash, and I'm sure a bunch of folks feel the same.