Great job!! Nice report we’ve been doing really good there the past couple of weeks

 

23lbs for a 2 man is a fat sack of fish...good job!

 

Yum

 

i was on the ramp 6 am,did not do very good,i fished with friend ,fished all day kept 30 perch,only few were 9" to many small ones. we mooved 6 times. there ware 500 boats from south kely,north kely to south green.to much trafic,24' boat junping to much you had to wach not to be trown out from boat. wake 5' or more.

 

When you run out of shiners - I hear perch eyes are quite effective!

 

BTW…great catch!

 

You are right on Super G! Have caught many a perch on a single perch eye and they are hard for the perch to steal off the hook.

 

Cut a patch of skin off the belly also works. Last long time

 

Exactly. When the perch are hitting good, we always try a 1/2- 1" strip of belly skin on our sabikis.. Then you can catch'em twice as fast,,,, when you don't have to 'cut bait'!
Also,,, try dragging a down-rigger ball or anchor through the mud,,, stir up the bottom & get a feeding frenzy going.
lol,,, I'm sure you guys already know about a partially opened can of cat food, hanging down there? ;>)

 

On the sabiki rigs, how many are you allowed on the line. I believe mine has 5 but are you only allowed 3?

 

3 I would buy sabiki rigs with 6 and cut em in half add swivels and use old 3/4 to 1 oz erie deerie heads for weight then bounce them in the mud. Yellow/gold/silver heads worked the best

 

I've tried bouncing them in the mud and my experience on the west end, it shuts the fishing down. Same thing with a perch caller or chain on rope off back. I've also use the open can of cat food before in a net off the bottom and it doesn't work.

My thoughts are they either bite or they don't. Sometimes you can wait them out or find a feeding area.
Looking back on the day, I wish I would have tried the jigging rap. Maybe I could have improved the size.

I have had success in the Central Basin with cripple herring with a short snelled hook and minnow. Bouncing them on bottom or dragging across used to gather the larger perch. When there were perch over here.

Rickerd

 

I've tried bouncing them in the mud and my experience on the west end, it shuts the fishing down. Same thing with a perch caller or chain on rope off back. I've also use the open can of cat food before in a net off the bottom and it doesn't work.

My thoughts are they either bite or they don't. Sometimes you can wait them out or find a feeding area.
Looking back on the day, I wish I would have tried the jigging rap. Maybe I could have improved the size.

I have had success in the Central Basin with cripple herring with a short snelled hook and minnow. Bouncing them on bottom or dragging across used to gather the larger perch. When there were perch over here.

Rickerd

never to late to try the jigging rap. back in late 70's that is all i used thru the ice for perch.

 

I’ve caught them on a variety of lures. Spoons, jigs and they do seem to get bigger fish often. The issue I’ve had is when you downsize lures to catch perch it takes forever to fish them in 25 to 35 feet of water. Hence the standard stuff… They just fish faster IMHO.

 

Just use a spreader with gold or red hooks. Nothing else. No blades on the spreader.

 

Fished with a charter out of Wild Wings today, three eager to fish kids 9-11 yo and me. We only dropped anchor once, kept 120 perch, caught 1 sheep and 1 white perch, back at the dock before 11 AM. If the kids were comfortable untangling their own rigs, taking fish off the hook, etc, we could have been done much sooner. I don't have a lot of experience on Erie, but that was the best perch bite I have ever been on, kids had a blast.