10-09-2016, 03:56 PM
I had the opposite day from TubeDude and the Gulch flotilla. FIshed in ther gulch for a couple of hours and only had one smallie come to the. Decided to target trout since we couldn't find a perch school. Spent a few hours of marking plenty of trout in different areas with only three hits and no hookups.
While trolling the bridge area I saw what looked like a possible perch school right on a break from 20 ft to 40 ft. The 20 ft area was a nice flat with another steep break closer to shore to about 10 feet. That's a money spot from past experience. Perfect feeding shelf. Just anchored up close to deep break and first cast resulted in a walleye. Couple of casts later another walleye. A few more casts and a 11" perch took the bait. Just dragging a worm on a jig up the break or across the flat. Ended up with about a dozen 12 to 15" walleyes and twice that amount of 9 to 11" perch all released. Not a hot bite but good enough for the three of us. Never did hook up with a rainbow. Bite was actually getting better toward the end but two of my party needed to be back for family fun. I imagine just around sunset the bigger walleyes would show up.
Stopped to talk to a couple of guys cleaning fish as I pulled out. I had noticed them fishing a small spot for hours and decided they must be targeting eyes. Later they cruised over to fish the spot I was on at the end but decided not to crowd us. Anyway I wanted to see how they had fared. They were cleaning a decent mess of high teen eyes. Said they liked my spot for late afternoons as well and confirmed my suspicion.
On a final note Tubedude's flaming orange ride sure makes it easy to spot him from miles away. I slowly cruised by at a respectful distance just to watch the legend at work. Sweet set up but I'll stick with my pedal kayak or the boat as floating around in 50 degree water just sounds like torture. Probably take 10 minutes on shore before I could feel my legs.
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While trolling the bridge area I saw what looked like a possible perch school right on a break from 20 ft to 40 ft. The 20 ft area was a nice flat with another steep break closer to shore to about 10 feet. That's a money spot from past experience. Perfect feeding shelf. Just anchored up close to deep break and first cast resulted in a walleye. Couple of casts later another walleye. A few more casts and a 11" perch took the bait. Just dragging a worm on a jig up the break or across the flat. Ended up with about a dozen 12 to 15" walleyes and twice that amount of 9 to 11" perch all released. Not a hot bite but good enough for the three of us. Never did hook up with a rainbow. Bite was actually getting better toward the end but two of my party needed to be back for family fun. I imagine just around sunset the bigger walleyes would show up.
Stopped to talk to a couple of guys cleaning fish as I pulled out. I had noticed them fishing a small spot for hours and decided they must be targeting eyes. Later they cruised over to fish the spot I was on at the end but decided not to crowd us. Anyway I wanted to see how they had fared. They were cleaning a decent mess of high teen eyes. Said they liked my spot for late afternoons as well and confirmed my suspicion.
On a final note Tubedude's flaming orange ride sure makes it easy to spot him from miles away. I slowly cruised by at a respectful distance just to watch the legend at work. Sweet set up but I'll stick with my pedal kayak or the boat as floating around in 50 degree water just sounds like torture. Probably take 10 minutes on shore before I could feel my legs.
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