MA Meeting at Willard 11-12-20

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MA stands for "Masochists Anonymous".   Several BFTers showed up to conduct a perch search in the frigid waters today...including myself, Wiperslayer, Wiperhunter and FatBiker...with his yak.  Air temp at launch was 24 degrees.  Water temp was 41 inside the marina and up to 43 outside.  And it was flat calm glass to the horizon.





Should have been ideal.  But with the hordes of shad dying off the birds were glutting and likewise the fish.  Hard to get overstuffed fish to go for any silly stuff  us fisherfolk offered them.  However, I got an email from Wiperslayer after getting home, saying they had found some willing perch.  I'll leave it up to him to make his own report.





I used a wide variety of lures and baits.  Got a couple of  rattle-rattle bites that felt perchy.  But they were not experienced enough to hold on.  Ended up my day only a couple of whiskers shy of a skunk.  But I did get two nice cats.  One was a measured 25 inches.





It was calm and lovely at launch...about 7:15.  Even though it was cold, it was quite bearable with proper layers and some handwarmers.  But about 10 am a SE breeze kicked up and it got cold and choppy.  That was enough for me and FatBiker.  We beat our way back into the marina.  I had planned to stay past noon to see if there might be an afternoon bite, but I got more chilled at 40 degrees with wind than I did at calm 20 degrees.  Noon was 'nuff.