The picture you mention was one I showed you when Rick and I stopped by your store on our way to another fishing trip. Alas, that picture...along with a lot of other irreplaceable ones...was lost when someone cleaned out my storage locker while I was living in an apartment in California.
That picture was taken after a wild September morning tubing trip around the Island at Deer Creek. I had launched in hopes of bagging some big perch and maybe a walleye. The young-of-the-year perch were about 2" at that time and all of the predators were herding them into the shallows and chowing down. I was pitching some small custom painted plastics that looked like little perchlets...as I had been doing for a couple of months. I didn't get any walleye that morning but I did score some nice footlong perch.
![[Image: PERCHLET.jpg]](https://i.postimg.cc/Fdm9222V/PERCHLET.jpg)
AND THEN...there began to be some big swirls and splashes right off the end of the island. I thought they might be carp...joining in on the perchlet assault. But as I got closer I got a good look at some of the marauders. They was big browns. And a cast into their midst got an instant chomp. For the next hour or so I was hooked up almost constantly with big browns...from about 18" to the mid 20" range. Some broke off on my wimpy poor quality 4# mono. But I did bring a few to net...keeping a limit between 20 and 24 inches.
Those were the days of me sometimes carrying a cheap Instamatic camera...no digital. And I sometimes had the camera with me...and I sometimes took dead fish pictures of my catch. Not always. I did shoot a couple of shots of those fish...and I dearly wish I still had the old photos. But alas, some idiots in California decided they needed my storage boxes more than I did.
I somehow managed to retain some of my old pictures and some of them I converted to digital. Here is one survivor from a trip out of Charleston in August...a month or so before the colossal trip at the Island. It has 5 nice browns...all caught on the little custom painted tubes...fishing around the edges of the weed beds where perch, trout and bass ganged up on the small perch every evening.
![[Image: DC-AUGUST-MIX.jpg]](https://i.postimg.cc/HjvjqNnQ/DC-AUGUST-MIX.jpg)
That picture was taken after a wild September morning tubing trip around the Island at Deer Creek. I had launched in hopes of bagging some big perch and maybe a walleye. The young-of-the-year perch were about 2" at that time and all of the predators were herding them into the shallows and chowing down. I was pitching some small custom painted plastics that looked like little perchlets...as I had been doing for a couple of months. I didn't get any walleye that morning but I did score some nice footlong perch.
AND THEN...there began to be some big swirls and splashes right off the end of the island. I thought they might be carp...joining in on the perchlet assault. But as I got closer I got a good look at some of the marauders. They was big browns. And a cast into their midst got an instant chomp. For the next hour or so I was hooked up almost constantly with big browns...from about 18" to the mid 20" range. Some broke off on my wimpy poor quality 4# mono. But I did bring a few to net...keeping a limit between 20 and 24 inches.
Those were the days of me sometimes carrying a cheap Instamatic camera...no digital. And I sometimes had the camera with me...and I sometimes took dead fish pictures of my catch. Not always. I did shoot a couple of shots of those fish...and I dearly wish I still had the old photos. But alas, some idiots in California decided they needed my storage boxes more than I did.
I somehow managed to retain some of my old pictures and some of them I converted to digital. Here is one survivor from a trip out of Charleston in August...a month or so before the colossal trip at the Island. It has 5 nice browns...all caught on the little custom painted tubes...fishing around the edges of the weed beds where perch, trout and bass ganged up on the small perch every evening.