Willard Wrapup (with video)

[doitall5000]

Thanks for your videos they are great to watch I'm always watching to see your Garmin looking for water temp and dept.   but I know what it is in the channel where you are.  Can you see anything on your side finder? Those small perch are hard to see on the side finder but you can see them on bottom lock when I zoom in .  I can't launch very easy on the south marina, much easier in the north when I'm alone. Do you know if they are still fishing up that way?  
It looks like your new jigs did very good for you that silver color looks like the best factor, pink and silver and blue and silver. You gave me those two colors but have not used them, YET.  
Those big perch fillet very nice, they are not yet bulging with eggs.  Have a nice dinner.
I have caught the surf perch too, good fun. I have not eaten them just released.

As with some other side scan sonars, the Garmin seems to do best with fish that are just enough off the bottom to "cast a shadow" on the bottom.  I have had varying results.  Have found some fish I would have otherwise missed, but have not seen fish that were probably there and did not show up.  Here is a screen shot of some fish I saw last Wednesday that were in water a bit shallower than I had been fishing.  Most of my earlier fish had been in about 20 FOW.  These were in only 15-16'.  I rocketed over there with my electric motor and found a few that helped me finish off my day before they disappeared.


Haven't heard any reports from the north but it is almost always better than the south.  However, since it gets hammered more the fish can be a bit more touchy.  Not as many fish come in to the south but if you find some they can usually be caught.  After Curt, Ira and I found some last week a lot of the perch jerkers followed us to the south and it has been getting more pressure.

Here are some of the new stuff I have been making...for myself and others' requests.  Ira got me making the chartreuse and pink with silver.   Those are colors that work well with the Johnson Spoons.  And they have proven very attractive to big Willard perch (and cats) too.
 

That side finder really shows that school very helpful.  I like those green tear drop jigs. Have you used them yet. Looks like a warming spell next week!!