01-18-2016, 07:02 PM
I couldn't find any perch when I went up. I was up there Friday from about 8:00am to 6:00pm North of Cemetery point. We started out probably 100 yards out in 40 feet of water and caught probably 15 Crappie until about 9:00. Then it died maybe a couple bites here or there but completely dead.
We moved North about another 50 to 75 yards to try that. We caught a couple more like 2-3 until about 12:00. It seamed like about noon it was completely dead nothing until about 4:45. That is when it started to pick up again and my finder lit up with fish. We stayed till about six and it was steady till we left catching maybe 15 to 20 Crappie between the two of us.
We probably missed twice as many as we caught. We used everything we could think of Ratfinkees, ratso, shrimpo, tube jigs, kastmasters, and Jiggin raps along with a variety of ice flies. We did best with a red ice fly tipped with a Berkley Gulp maggot. They did not really take anything that was not tipped with the Gulp maggot. They did not want anything real, we tried wax worms, meal worms, and spikes, they hit on a couple of those but they liked the Gulp the best.
We stayed right on the bottom maybe a foot off at the most. There were a couple cruisers between 5 to 20 feet but nothing that appeared to be worth going after. Though I was looking down through my hole at one point and did see a Tiger muskie swim right below my hole. He was probably 3 feet in length. I yelled at my buddy to come look as he was making yellow snow outside. He was so excited he ran back inside the tent and that big boy was gone as fast as he came in when he heard my buddy coming to catch him.
I heard of a couple guys that were catching a couple perch a few hundred yards north of us. As for us it was all Crappie all day. We ended up catching a little more than thirty all day. It was cold even inside the tent with a heater when that wind started to blow it blew and it was cold.
If you go up let us know how you do, I would sure like to try it again this year but I want to go for the perch like you. Good luck
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We moved North about another 50 to 75 yards to try that. We caught a couple more like 2-3 until about 12:00. It seamed like about noon it was completely dead nothing until about 4:45. That is when it started to pick up again and my finder lit up with fish. We stayed till about six and it was steady till we left catching maybe 15 to 20 Crappie between the two of us.
We probably missed twice as many as we caught. We used everything we could think of Ratfinkees, ratso, shrimpo, tube jigs, kastmasters, and Jiggin raps along with a variety of ice flies. We did best with a red ice fly tipped with a Berkley Gulp maggot. They did not really take anything that was not tipped with the Gulp maggot. They did not want anything real, we tried wax worms, meal worms, and spikes, they hit on a couple of those but they liked the Gulp the best.
We stayed right on the bottom maybe a foot off at the most. There were a couple cruisers between 5 to 20 feet but nothing that appeared to be worth going after. Though I was looking down through my hole at one point and did see a Tiger muskie swim right below my hole. He was probably 3 feet in length. I yelled at my buddy to come look as he was making yellow snow outside. He was so excited he ran back inside the tent and that big boy was gone as fast as he came in when he heard my buddy coming to catch him.
I heard of a couple guys that were catching a couple perch a few hundred yards north of us. As for us it was all Crappie all day. We ended up catching a little more than thirty all day. It was cold even inside the tent with a heater when that wind started to blow it blew and it was cold.
If you go up let us know how you do, I would sure like to try it again this year but I want to go for the perch like you. Good luck
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