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[cool][#0000ff]Hit Rabbit Gulch on Starvation this morning with fellow tuber LloydE. Air temp 60 and water temp 67 at launch...about 6:20. Lovely calm morning. No wind, no power squadron.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I scored the first fish...a 13" walleye...within 10 minutes of launch. It hit my little pale perch Roadrunner jig with worm in about 18 feet of water. A few kicks later I bagged my first basket perch on the same lure...out in 24 feet of water. [/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Once I got beyond the weed line, I cast out a "flig rig"...a floating jig rigged dropper style with a 1/8 oz. weight on bottom. Kept jigging with the roadrunner but had to keep taking perch off the flig rig. They liked the firetiger color flig I started with. [/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Lloyd and I both were scoring some pretty decent perch, but in deeper water than expected. We were anticipating 15 to 18 feet. But, most of the larger perch were in 25 to 30 feet. No big schools but enough singles and doubles to keep it interesting.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Kept only perch over 9 1/2 inches. But, found ourselves tossing them back in the 10 inch range later, as we approached our 20 perch limits. We both got some 12 inch plus fish, with quite a few between 10" and 12". Good fighters.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Lloyd got one walleye...a feisty 17 incher from 47 feet of water. If you were anywhere on Starvation you could hear his "announcement". He loves his walleyes and is not bashful about letting the world know when he scores one.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I got one more small walleye, about 12 inches, on one of my pale perch fligs. Got quite a few perch on it too, but got more large perch on fire tiger ultra minnow jigs and the every popular red/chartreuse plastic tubes.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Had light breezes on and off from several directions. But not enough to be problematic. Decided we would finish off our limit of perch and head home early...about noon...since Lloyd had a meeting to attend in the evening. I found a "honey hump" covered with larger perch. I put out a marker buoy and topped of my limit quickly. I called Lloyd over and he did the same. [/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Set up my portable fillet station at the back of my vehicle and filleted all the perch (and walleye) into a heavy contractors' plastic bag, which we donated to the dumpster on the way out. Sure happy with the new 12 volt American Angler electric fillet knife. Filleted two limits of perch and a couple of walleyes without even dropping the voltage much on a small 4.4 ah battery.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Oh yeah, just as Lloyd hit the beach, the wind changed. Switched directions 180 degrees and picked up to about 20 mph. We were happy with our timing, as well as our fishing.[/#0000ff]
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It sure looks like it was a super nice day on the water
for you guys. I really like that fillet station.
How long did it take you to clean all those fish?

Peter
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[quote peter805]It sure looks like it was a super nice day on the water
for you guys. I really like that fillet station.
How long did it take you to clean all those fish?

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[cool][#0000ff]I didn't time myself, and I didn't rush it. But, I am guessing about a half hour for both baskets. When I am ROCKIN' & ROLLIN' it takes me less than 30 seconds per perch.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Here is the whole series of pics of the fillet station for anybody who needs more PVC fumes. I made two identical bases and 4 identical 1/2" PVC shafts. It breaks down and stows easily, with the treated partical board table under the rubber mat in the back of my vehicle. I balance one end on the tailgate of my Jimmy and the other is held up by the PVC frame with the plastic bag in it.[/#0000ff]
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Nice going on the perchkies. Looks like a hoot and some mighty good vittles to flap yer lip over too. I'm curious, does the fillet board attach to anything to keep it from sliding all over the place? But of course it does, the pictures just don't show it, right? That really is another fantastic idea. Now I've gotta go buy some more PVC.
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Thank you for the pictures of the filleting station TD.
I may make one just like that too.[]

Peter
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"I'm curious, does the fillet board attach to anything to keep it from sliding all over the place? But of course it does, the pictures just don't show it, right?"

[cool][#0000ff]The "rear" of the board simply rests on the tail gate of my Jimmy. It is held in place by the weight of the board, along with a large container of water into which I drop the fillets to chill and rinse them. Sometimes...when doing a major filleting operation with a group...I take along a card table and use it both as a rest for one end of the board and to hold the water, unfilleted fish, etc.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]There are holes in each corner of the board. When I first made it, I simply put the pieces of PVC into those holes...with a stopper to hold them in place. Too wobbly. That's when I built the PVC frame.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I also used a box from a weed whacker as a second support. It folded down flat when not in use, but could be used to hold the plastic bag under the hole when filleting. I just "trimmed" a bit off the top to get it at the right height.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Another one of those things I have tinkered with a bit since first making the board when I lived in Arizona. It was handy for filleting the big flathead cats we caught down there. Since then it has "hosted" thousands of fish of many species.[/#0000ff]
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