08-03-2011, 06:08 PM
Decided to go to Roberts and put the little aluminum boat in with an electric motor. Last year when the wind died down you could see the bottom clearly, this year you can see about 2 feet because it is so green with drifing algea.
We had a slight breeze, but that did die down later and had a perfectly calm pond. Started catching tiny 4-5 inch perch, very green in color. One was maybe 6 inches. They bit on fire corn, worms, meal worms and perch meat, and at the end we started just using bare hooks. We were throwing them all back but decided they need to be thinned and we can use them as crawded bait, so we kept the last 8 or so as it was getting dark and headed to Rose Pond.
Caught enough crawdads to nearly fill a 5 gallon bucket. My crawdad trap with perch managed about 12 in the few hours were were there, they had pulled all but one perch out, probably by walking on the backs of others. I think I need a bigger trap... and several of them.
The rest of the time we were wading through the water with nets and head lamps, scooping them up. There were thousands of babies, from tiny specks to 1.5 inches, and then much bigger ones here and there. We ignored anything that fell through the holes in the net and concentrated on the big guys in the reeds and willows.
All in all, a good night even if we couldn't hook any catfish or trout out of Roberts. Catching tiny perch can still be fun and would be a blast for kids.
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We had a slight breeze, but that did die down later and had a perfectly calm pond. Started catching tiny 4-5 inch perch, very green in color. One was maybe 6 inches. They bit on fire corn, worms, meal worms and perch meat, and at the end we started just using bare hooks. We were throwing them all back but decided they need to be thinned and we can use them as crawded bait, so we kept the last 8 or so as it was getting dark and headed to Rose Pond.
Caught enough crawdads to nearly fill a 5 gallon bucket. My crawdad trap with perch managed about 12 in the few hours were were there, they had pulled all but one perch out, probably by walking on the backs of others. I think I need a bigger trap... and several of them.
The rest of the time we were wading through the water with nets and head lamps, scooping them up. There were thousands of babies, from tiny specks to 1.5 inches, and then much bigger ones here and there. We ignored anything that fell through the holes in the net and concentrated on the big guys in the reeds and willows.
All in all, a good night even if we couldn't hook any catfish or trout out of Roberts. Catching tiny perch can still be fun and would be a blast for kids.
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