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Conny perch & eye limits

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Sunday 2 of us went out of Conneaut and started off walleye fishing. Caught our 12 fish and a bonus steelhead with dipsy’s and spoons. 1 at 150’ and 2 at 180’ back. Went for perch with salted shiners and caught 28 until a thunderstorm chased us off the lake.

Monday (labor day) 4 of us went out for perch with fresh emerald shiners. Took us until 2pm but we got our 120 perch and they were all nice size. Gps numbers for eyes and perch are in pics.
 

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I was out yesterday close to these numbers which is past the hump close to state line. Wasn't a fast pick but they were there and were biting actively but not crazy.
Schools were not real big. Maybe a few feet thick at most. 55 feet of water. I am sure with the perch tourney today it would be easy to find. Yesterday was nice and only 8 to 10 boats on them.

Good luck.
Glad I finally put some perch in the freezer.
 
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3 of us went back out yesterday 9/9. Started out perch fishing with salted emeralds and fresh goldies, same numbers as last Monday. Got our 3 man limit before noon, 90-95% were jumbos. Went out to our walleye numbers and caught a 3 man limit eyes by 3pm. Eyes were caught on dipsy’s and spoons again. 1 at 90’ and 3 setting at 150’ back. Today we only went for perch and caught 68 before we headed in and went for home.
 

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Nice! Looks like some good eating!

I thought all the perch were gone? According to all posts on this forum you wouldn't even think there was one left in the lake.
Plenty of perch out there. You just need to move a couple times to get a limit. Small schools are constantly moving around. Sometimes a school comes through 20' off the bottom, catch a couple of those then they gone. Pull up the Terrova and move a couple hundred feet and sit on another school. Repeat, repeat. Have to work for them, not like a couple years ago.