Hyrum 1/2

[LT-perch]

The perch catching is a little slower but the quality is pretty good at Hyrum, we fished south of the boat ramp trying from 8’ out to 48’ with 18’ my most productive depth. The perch where very tight to the bottom so much so that many times I would get lite bites with no fish on my screen if I put my jig on the bottom. Next time out I’ll go off of the swim beach. The perch where 8-11”.

Thanks for the report! Perches are bigger than last year!

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Wow I must have been in the middle of you guys off the boat ramp. I started at 20 fow till about 9:30 when they quit moving through. Got 9 fish in there, 1 bow the rest 9-10.5” perch. Lost a big one at the hole when the upper hook snagged on the ice edge. Might have went 12-13” it was a lot bigger than the others I was catching. Anyway I was using my camera and the fish were just kissing the bait and not sucking it into their mouths until I put a chain and treble hook on, then I got most of the hits after. Nice fish, but you really need to be there for the early bite. Really slows down after 9:30. I found one out deeper after, but I couldn’t find where they went. They are not like past years balling up in big piles, or at least I didn’t find one. Everything I seen were out hunting for food in roving groups of similar size fish. I used spoons and bigger baits to try and discourage the smaller fish, it worked, smallest was 9”.. Sorry I didn’t recognize you guys. Later Jeff



Hi, Jeff, where is the crappies from in your photo? Nice catches!

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The perch catching is a little slower but the quality is pretty good at Hyrum, we fished south of the boat ramp trying from 8’ out to 48’ with 18’ my most productive depth. The perch where very tight to the bottom so much so that many times I would get lite bites with no fish on my screen if I put my jig on the bottom. Next time out I’ll go off of the swim beach. The perch where 8-11”.

Thanks for the report! Perches are bigger than last year!

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Wow I must have been in the middle of you guys off the boat ramp. I started at 20 fow till about 9:30 when they quit moving through. Got 9 fish in there, 1 bow the rest 9-10.5” perch. Lost a big one at the hole when the upper hook snagged on the ice edge. Might have went 12-13” it was a lot bigger than the others I was catching. Anyway I was using my camera and the fish were just kissing the bait and not sucking it into their mouths until I put a chain and treble hook on, then I got most of the hits after. Nice fish, but you really need to be there for the early bite. Really slows down after 9:30. I found one out deeper after, but I couldn’t find where they went. They are not like past years balling up in big piles, or at least I didn’t find one. Everything I seen were out hunting for food in roving groups of similar size fish. I used spoons and bigger baits to try and discourage the smaller fish, it worked, smallest was 9”.. Sorry I didn’t recognize you guys. Later Jeff



Hi, Jeff, where is the crappie from in your photo? Nice catches!