12-27-2011, 03:54 PM
went up to starvation yesterday in search of some of the so called starvation steelhead looking rainbows and some good perch. headed out by the bridge crossing and diddnt get there until about 830 am. i started fishing in 52 ft of water and right off the bat i caught a nice 9 1/2 inch perch then i caught 2 more abou the same size. so i decided to det my tent up thinkin we were onfish. got it up and dropped my hali back to the bottom and a little bit occured i set the hook and it was fish on. when i started reeling it up i knew it was big and had some weight to it but i knew it wasnt a trout since it wasnt pounding got it up to the hole and i had to scoop it out it was so heavy on my micro mini ice pole. a nice 13 inch jumbo perch that got me really excited thinking i was on a school of biggins but the closes in size the rest of the day were a few 10 inchers with about 15 8 inch perch. at around eleven o clock the perch bite died so i tried for some rainbows, or anything that wanted to play. in a group of 4 guys that iw as with we all caught our limits of rainbows in 2 hours and man those are the hardest fighting trout i have ever caught, they were screaming my drag for up to 15 seconds at atime rally cool and just a real pretty fish, so my dad and his friends started callin them starvation steelies everytime we hooked into one pretty cool trip since it was my first tme there. plannin on another to get some more good perch tablefare.
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