Oneida perch

[Mikeyman104]

Went out yesterday in front of the islands and boy what a beauty of a day. Once you found the right spot, there were tons of perch in there hitting the fatheads, but had to catch about 10 smalls to get 1 good one. Either way tons of fun because once your dropped your bait in the water you had a fish. Heck, was able to get a picture of some dinks hitting my split shots at the surface there were so many. Good day all around.

 

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[glenm]

Sounds like a grest day!

[Pequod1]

I was there last week and the fishing was similar. One thing I noticed is when I switched out the fatheads for bigger plastics and  pimples, I caught bigger fish.  Maybe I was lucky but I’ll be there again today and use the artificials. 

[Mikeyman104]

3 hours ago, Pequod1 said:

I was there last week and the fishing was similar. One thing I noticed is when I switched out the fatheads for bigger plastics and  pimples, I caught bigger fish.  Maybe I was lucky but I’ll be there again today and use the artificials. 

 

Yeah, I could see that. Some of the fat heads were pretty good size and they seemed to get some better quality fish. 

 

One thing I found interesting was that one of the larger perch I cleaned had a smaller goby in him. Make sense that they eat them, I just had never seen it before. 

[Pequod1]

 Well, as always, fish have a way of making me look stupid. Today was slow. Only two on plastic and 28 on fatheads.  The water was real cloudy today and I’m thinking that was a problem.  Very soft bites. Could hardly notice.

[sandwick50]

What depth of water do you typically find perch this time of year?

[Mikeyman104]

8 hours ago, sandwick50 said:

What depth of water do you typically find perch this time of year?

 

The ones I got on Sunday were in about 14.5 FOW. 

[Pequod1]

I was in 20’ both trips.

[Mikeyman104]

Got out for a bit this morning. Greeted by stronger winds than I was expecting, but picked up a handful of good keepers with a couple perch hitting 12".

Also got a surprise with a beast of a bowfin that weighed 7lbs. Was hoping it was a smallie, but it was a heck of time fighting it with ultra lite tackle.

Just west of the islands again but a bit closer to the channel this time.

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[show me the money]

That might be a burbot 

[sandwick50]

No, he got it right, bowfin.

[Kevin J Legg]

It has scales but no obvious spot on tail.

 

 

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[Sk8man]

Definitely a Bowfin. No elongated fin near the tail. Spot isn't always present.

[Kevin J Legg]

Definitely a Bowfin. No elongated fin near the tail. Spot isn't always present.

Yep bowfin


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