My buddy and I hooked up with SDhuntandfish this morning. took a 4 mile four wheeler ride in subzero temperatures in fog that you couldn't see more than four feet in. by the time the ride was done our eyelashes had huge chunks of ice on them. we ended up fishing till 1pm and ended up icing 17 perch a few gigantors but most were just good fat bellied jumbos between 10 and 12 inches. we also caught and released quite a few little guys. ended up with a few trout too. the ice looked to me to be about 12 inches thick although i never officially measured it. i couldnt find any maggots in Lewiston and nothing in mcall or cascade was open when we had to be on the ice so i picked up some gulp alive plastics. 1 inch minnows and their little maggots. they come in little jars with a liquid in it. i saw tom greumwald use them on tv to tip his jigs and what not for perch and he did really well with them so i figured "why not?" well they work!
I would have had some pictures of the gigantors but i left my phone in my buddy's pickup and cant get ahold of him.
hopefully i will see some of you down there for the tackle toms tournament.
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Thanx for the report. I miss those Fat Perch. From that country.
I am glad you made the journey. Are you in town long? Or, just on your way home?
Idaho
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just drove down there the night before to fish sunday.
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thanks for the report, i'll be up next weekend both days, a guy from another forum is putting on a fishing tourney up there on sat.,
Matt
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Fished Saturday with the Untangler and had a great time. Fishing was a little slow but managed a couple nice trout and some dink perch. Sunday was better sized fish but nothing special for numbers. Monday was the best but we only had a few hours to fish but iced 14 keepers with a few real jumbos. Nice way to spend my birthday weekend with the family and friends!!!!
congrats nice purch. [fishin]
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[quote AverysAdventure]Fished Saturday with the Untangler and had a great time. Fishing was a little slow but managed a couple nice trout and some dink perch. Sunday was better sized fish but nothing special for numbers. Monday was the best but we only had a few hours to fish but iced 14 keepers with a few real jumbos. Nice way to spend my birthday weekend with the family and friends!!!![/quote]
Hey! That's my secret spot
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Got my phone back. Here is a pick of one of the fatties we nailed Sunday.
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Yeah, I finally got to meet the famous Avery after watching him grow up on this forum. He is a four foot nothing fishing machine and a nice kid who is lucky enough to have parents teaching him about the great outdoors. It was a slow day for me and I lost a bruiser of a trout right at the hole which I really needed for the contest. I should have played him a little longer but that isn't helping me sleep better at night.
HH - if that is your secret spot, it sucked. Besides that, all your secret spots used to be my secret spots.[angelic]
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Those are some awesome perch!
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Man those are some nice perch. Ron
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