Port Bay suggestions

[bbolger]

Hi all,

 

New to Port Bay in July and looking for some suggestions on locations for perch fishing in the bay. Spring and fall?

 

Bruce

[whiteknuckler]

Find the boats and you will find people asking the same question...

[fishhead4738]

I fished off Thornton point in 22 ft of water caught 21 keepers lot of dinks that was on 9/30 using fat head minnows

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[copperpin]

Thornton is on Sodus not Port Bay

[Reellaxin]

You should try Tompkins point on Portbay

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[bbolger]

Had a couple good days last week and the week before. For the most part they were bay perch. Fished Tompkins and Graves.uch slower this weekend but did get a very large crappie off Tompkins today...my first here. Took a peek out in the lake late morning hoping to find a school ... Nope!

Thanks for the suggestions.

[Reellaxin]

Were you in the ProMag ?

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[bbolger]

I was in one of the two out there... the one wth the riggers on the back with the side console steering... thats usually parked on the west side of Graves n the hoist  about 5-6 docks souh of the point

Bruce

[Reellaxin]

Alright! I own the other one. I noticed that boat earlier in the summer. You must have bought the nellis place? Well good luck out there.

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[tbulhead]

It may be over by now, but there is a fall bullhead run that happens in Port Bay.  From first light to about 9 am you can catch them all along Tompkins Pt  and East Port Bay Road in deep water using leeches and the traditional bullhead set up.  Use two anchors to keep your boat still so you can detect the bites.  Usually it starts around Labor Day.  I always catch more in the Fall than in the Spring.  I quit at the end of September but they may still be there. 

[Reellaxin]

Interesting I never knew that. Thanks for the info.

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[tbulhead]

Yeah all the old timers who used to know about it are no longer with us, I am told.

[bbolger]

Funny you should mention bullhead as I caught one off Tompkins in the 22fow I was perching in on a fathead on a perch setup... almost kept it for my mom who loves them but thought maybe they aren't as tasty as the cold water spring ones...

[tbulhead]

These are the Lakers coming in for the winter I am told. They swim circles around the bottom in schools.

[Rippin'Line]

Tompkins and graves point hold perch and pike.