Just wanted to see if anyone would be up for some tubing action on either Willard or Jordanelle Sat. morning. I'm also open to other suggestions as well just would like to go somwhere thats not too far and has a high probabilty of catching some fish. Sorry for the short notice but I hope some of you can make it.[cool] Let me know what you think.
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I would love to go, but my wife has some plans that make it impossible for me to go. Let's do it another Saturday!
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Im free most weekends just let me know.[cool]
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Wish I could.... but work calls! [mad]
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[cool][#0000ff]Sorry you didn't get a lot of action, but sometimes that is the way it goes. Many of us keep busy and have our "dance cards" filled up a couple of weeks in advance. We can't always jump on short notice invites.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I'm sure that a lot of us would like to meet you and fish with you. If you can only fish on the weekend there are plenty of others in the same situation. Just post up your plans as soon as you know you are going and be patient. [/#0000ff]
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next time your looking for someone to fish with on a saturday shoot me a pm. I put up a post last night looking for someone to fish with and got no takers, somehow i missed this post till this morning. i live in ogden so it will be easy for us to hookup
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Hey Jason drop me a line (pm) as i don;t always check in with mother. I hit Linclon today I think you'd of loved it.
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Well I ended up going by my lonesome[
]. But still had a great time anywany, there were about 10 other tube/tooners so I didnt need you guy anyway[
]. Since it was my first time out to the nelle I stole Tubedudes spot that he talked about yesterday and what a exellent spot for tubes/toons. It's off on it's own without alot of traffic from water skiers and lots of fish....they could of been a little bigger but what can you do. All in all I caught 4 real nice eating perch all around 12in, 1000 miget perch and around 20 smallies. It was a little weird the first 4 perch I caught were all around 12in then it just shut off and all I could catch was dinks[unsure].......guess the parents eat first. Also the weather couldnt of been better just enough breeze to keep the bugs away at launch with nothing more than a light chop all day...[cool].......Untill next time[sly]
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[cool][#0000ff]Hey, glad you were able to get out and find a few fishies. That spot will hold up until it gets quite a bit colder...usually about the end of September. But then the fish just go deeper and you have to look harder on the sonar. The trout move in a lot more by then so there is always something to catch.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]About the size of the perch... We have found that the perch usually hang out by year classes. Once you find some larger ones there are usually more close by. That is why it is good to carry a small marker buoy and toss it over when you hang a goodun. Sometimes the fish are cruising and leave the area quickly, but other times they hang around a weed bed or bit of underwater structure. When they bunch up, you need to drop right on them. 10 feet off the mark and you will only get the perchettes. Some days you really have to move around and change depths to find the larger fish. And sometimes you only pick up one here or there. But, as a general rule, the bigger fish usually hit better later in the morning...in deeper water.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]The little guys are pests, but it is good to see their numbers. The perch population dropped off a couple of years ago and it seems to be coming back strong.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]We will have to meet up there sometime and I can show you a couple of good spots for larger smallmouth...and lots of bigger perch. It is a little bit of a kick from the ramp, but usually worth it. The nice thing about the PWC area is that you usually are fishing inside the no wake zone. Even though there is a lot of boat and PWC traffic on the lake, you have "tubing rights". And, the fish are mostly inside too.[/#0000ff]
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Great report! Nice to hear you got into some fish. ANy size to any of the smallies??? [cool]
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Tubedude you are right on the mark about the perch, the 4 nice ones i picked up were all right by this stump that stuck out of the water about 4in. then they must of moved out. Ya let me know anytime you want to do a little fishin i'll be there, id love to learn from the tubin master.[cool]
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Sorry to say the biggest was about 13 and the average was about 10 so no real size to any of them but still fun to catch on light tackle[sly].
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[cool][#0000ff]That was the size range we found on Friday. The larger smallmouth are over near the steep banks, near structure. The ones we caught were swimming over the mud banks and around the weed beds, feeding on baby perch. Almost every one we brought up was spitting 1 1/2" perch fry. One of the 10 inchers I caught had about a 4" perch in his throat. My little jig was either dessert or a toothpick.[/#0000ff]
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