Fishing Forum

[] Hit the " The Rock" on Saturday with my daughter and a good friend. Parked at the boat ramp and went North. The vexilar put us in 44' of water. Dropped down to the bottom and WHAM. my daughter was on the board first with 2 nice perchies. Then me and my buddy got in on the fun. Between the three of us we hooked up on a nice mess of fish in two and a half hours. The wind sucked but still had a great time.

As I fillet out the fish today I noticed that I had a good share of male fish. I had read previous posts about the amount of females full of eggs. I would bet that at least half of our fish if not more were males. fello bfters talked about more males coming around later in the season. Is this true? Just curious. Anyway got a nice mess of fillets for a meal here in a few days. Lots of folks up there all over the lake. Used green and red rat finkies with waxies below a small kastmaster on the bottom. forgot my radio to see who was around. oh well next time.
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Thanks for the report. I'm heading up in the morning (Monday) with my 3 year old. Hopefully, we'll hook into 'em as well.

I was up a couple of weeks ago. We didn't catch a whole lot of perchies, but the ones we did pull in were all female, with the exception of one. The male happened to be the final one we processed. I was beginning to wonder how they were going to reproduce. []
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The females that we caught were like little footballs. Just plump and round. The males were much slimmer. Most fish were in the 7-9 inch range. Even with the wind blowing the strike was pretty aggresive. You knew that you were gitting a hit. we did not need any kind of bobber or strike indicator. I wouldn't have minded releasing the females except that they all get the bends pulling them up. I even tried just taking my time pulling some up in hopes that I could release a female. But they had the old ballon in the mouth and had to keep them.
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