Slipping in the mud, splashing in the water, slaying perch at Rockport

[icerman]

Decided to take my 2 yr old grandson on his first fishing trip.  Figured I would chance the weather forecast and give it a whirl.  Went at mid day, just because!  People fishing on Echo looked like they were sitting on open water!  I was grateful that it wasn't raining when I got to the lake and the filled to capacity parking areas!  Slid down the muddy pathway, traversed over the running stream from rain and melting snow, splashed in the surface water to clean off the muddy boots as we headed out to our spot.  Tried depths from 24-35 FOW.  35' was the ticket.  Located fish and began the catching!  Between the 4 of us, we had a 5 gallon bucket of perch in just over an hour!  I would have loved to turn the small ones back but the stomachs were protruding.  Tried reeling them in slowly but tended to lose more of them that way. Coming back was a mud slide event!  All in all, I was thankful that it wasn't too cold for the little guy, excited that my daughter in law caught lots of fish (and had fun doing it) and that were able to get out in the great outdoors and catch some supper!

[FrozenFish]

Decided to take my 2 yr old grandson on his first fishing trip.  Figured I would chance the weather forecast and give it a whirl.  Went at mid day, just because!  People fishing on Echo looked like they were sitting on open water!  I was grateful that it wasn't raining when I got to the lake and the filled to capacity parking areas!  Slid down the muddy pathway, traversed over the running stream from rain and melting snow, splashed in the surface water to clean off the muddy boots as we headed out to our spot.  Tried depths from 24-35 FOW.  35' was the ticket.  Located fish and began the catching!  Between the 4 of us, we had a 5 gallon bucket of perch in just over an hour!  I would have loved to turn the small ones back but the stomachs were protruding.  Tried reeling them in slowly but tended to lose more of them that way. Coming back was a mud slide event!  All in all, I was thankful that it wasn't too cold for the little guy, excited that my daughter in law caught lots of fish (and had fun doing it) and that were able to get out in the great outdoors and catch some supper!

Thanks for sharing. Going to take my kids tomorrow and give it a shot.

[Cowboypirate]

We drove past in the morning. Looked like a lot of tents already set up but sure glad to hear you got those youngling on the bite.

[MWScott72]

I was out at RP yesterday too fishing in 39 FOW and had very little issue getting the smaller perch back down (as verified watching them swim back down on my finder). Some took a minute or two before deciding to go down, but most made it without too much issue. I found that as long as you throw them back in head first or “torpedo” them down the hole, that was all it took.