10-10-2023, 06:04 PM
(10-10-2023, 05:41 PM)doitall5000 Wrote: Wow sometimes you get lucky and it goes as you hoped-for, but you had better be ready for something or someone to throw a pie in your face. That's fishing.
You were thinking just as I was, I wanted to go Friday thinking it would be great . But now all those planted bows will dominate for a while.
Crazy to think you got no perch.
Willard is not yet, maybe Rockport will do.
Once DWR dumps in their annual load of "catchable" rainbows the whole ecology of Deer Creek changes. However, I have done well in the past for both perch and walleyes during October. I suppose a lot of the current conditions can be attributed to the much higher water levels this year. The fish have more water and their food supplies can be in different areas so that's where the predators will be. However, as most of us have experienced this year, there just have not been the catches of larger walleyes at all this year. And the perch populations have been way down for several years.
If I were to plan a trip to any water besides Willard...for perch...I would probably do Rockport. Last year the perch did what they are seemingly doing this year...suspending at middepth over deeper water. So if you can find a suspended school and drop down to them you might catch a few. I was catching them just offshore in 20-30 FOW last year at this time so I suspect that if you look hard enough you can find them on the bottom in some areas. One area that held a lot later in the year last year was right off the dam...in the NE corner. But every year is a new year and the fish don't always follow a pattern.
I think I am going to gear up and concentrate on the Willard perchies for a while. Did well on them late in the year last year. And I have some new trinkets to introduce to them. Surprise!