11-05-2019, 09:38 PM
[#0000ff]November usually treats me pretty good on big perch at Willard. Got some intel this past week that the water temps were down in the right zone and that there were some perchkind showing up. So I just hadda give it a shot.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Launched at the north marina about 7:30...formerly 8:30. Air temp 29 and water temp 43...warming only about 1 degree by noon. Water levels are way back up there. They have been dumping a lot of water in at the south marina.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Saw little on sonar going out the channel. 17 feet from the ramp out, by the way. Saw even more of nothing in my usual fave spots outside the marina. Like a desert. No shad...no predators.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Made some big S turns to cover all the usually good perchin' spots. Nada, zip, zilch. Getting worried.[/#0000ff]
[#0000ff]Remembered my last trip I found shad and diners in shallower water off Eagle Beach. Motored into about 12 - 13 feet and saw a couple of small shad balls.
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[#0000ff]Put out a flig on one rod and pitched plastics on the other. No bites on either. Had been using the formerly productive blue and silver flig. Put away the plastics and put out a second flig...a chartreuse perch. That did it. Bang, bang, bang. Three perch in only a few minutes...11", 12" and 13". Good I didn't keep on catching bigger ones each time. I could not have handled a 3 footer.
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[#0000ff]Figured I was gonna fill a basket. Figured wrong. Not another bite for the remaining 3 hours before I bagged it. Even worked the whole inside of the north marina without a sniff.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Beautiful weather...no skeeters and no skiers. Only one boat trailer in the parking lot when I left about noonish. Oh yeah...no catfish neither. Don't get to say that very often at Willard.
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[#0000ff]Launched at the north marina about 7:30...formerly 8:30. Air temp 29 and water temp 43...warming only about 1 degree by noon. Water levels are way back up there. They have been dumping a lot of water in at the south marina.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Saw little on sonar going out the channel. 17 feet from the ramp out, by the way. Saw even more of nothing in my usual fave spots outside the marina. Like a desert. No shad...no predators.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Made some big S turns to cover all the usually good perchin' spots. Nada, zip, zilch. Getting worried.[/#0000ff]
[#0000ff]Remembered my last trip I found shad and diners in shallower water off Eagle Beach. Motored into about 12 - 13 feet and saw a couple of small shad balls.
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[#0000ff]Put out a flig on one rod and pitched plastics on the other. No bites on either. Had been using the formerly productive blue and silver flig. Put away the plastics and put out a second flig...a chartreuse perch. That did it. Bang, bang, bang. Three perch in only a few minutes...11", 12" and 13". Good I didn't keep on catching bigger ones each time. I could not have handled a 3 footer.
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[#0000ff]Figured I was gonna fill a basket. Figured wrong. Not another bite for the remaining 3 hours before I bagged it. Even worked the whole inside of the north marina without a sniff.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Beautiful weather...no skeeters and no skiers. Only one boat trailer in the parking lot when I left about noonish. Oh yeah...no catfish neither. Don't get to say that very often at Willard.
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