... Tea time in the fish lab tonight. Luke and I just listening 🎧 to some fun songs 😂

 

Is there a white perch bite in the fall? I only ask because fall is around the corner! I should try out there while they still might have yak rentals and it's not blazing hot

 

Sounds like a great idea. Two man team? Loser buys the winner a six pack of choice? 🤣 I haven’t fished LaDue in years.

 

Was there yesterday, pulled out like 30ish white perch. Water is so insanely down, it's near 8 feet down since spring.

422 boathouse seems to be closed(no clue bout weekends), as the ramp is unusable. Had to walk my yak out down old bridge 500+ feet. Nothing can be put in the water, unless you can carry/drag or roll your yak a good distance, unless you park off valley rd and hop railing. I mean "technically" you can back your car down the the old bridge if you're really daring but even then I had to walk my yak out a good 20 more feet before I got depth to sit in the yak.

Haven't benn to 44 ramp in a few weeks, I'm assuming same thing though, since last year saw so many trucks stuck.

I ended up fishing on the exposed "island" in the middle of the lake. Normally would be a 5-6 foot deep shallow rise you'd fish around, yesterday it was like this...

Found a bunch of jigs, few lures and this on there. Most rusted behind use, been there a bit.

Been out there a decent amount last 2 weeks. Been sorta nice since every day including the weekend I was the only person on the lake. Seen a few people on yaks but most days I'm the only one. No clue what 44 side is like though. Although shoreline has been pretty packed though with people.

Few days ago I had a freakin' small plane skim the surface 100 feet in front of me like an *******.

 

Was there yesterday, pulled out like 30ish white perch. Water is so insanely down, it's near 8 feet down since spring.

422 boathouse seems to be closed(no clue bout weekends), as the ramp is unusable. Had to walk my yak out down old bridge 500+ feet. Nothing can be put in the water, unless you can carry/drag or roll your yak a good distance, unless you park off valley rd and hop railing. I mean "technically" you can back your car down the the old bridge if you're really daring but even then I had to walk my yak out a good 20 more feet before I got depth to sit in the yak.

Haven't benn to 44 ramp in a few weeks, I'm assuming same thing though, since last year saw so many trucks stuck.

I ended up fishing on the exposed "island" in the middle of the lake. Normally would be a 5-6 foot deep shallow rise you'd fish around, yesterday it was like this...

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Found a bunch of jigs, few lures and this on there. Most rusted behind use, been there a bit.

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Been out there a decent amount last 2 weeks. Been sorta nice since every day including the weekend I was the only person on the lake. Seen a few people on yaks but most days I'm the only one. No clue what 44 side is like though. Although shoreline has been pretty packed though with people.

Few days ago I had a freakin' small plane skim the surface 100 feet in front of me like an ***.

Bit late but I was out there one morning last week in the 44 ramp parking lot to meet another guy halfway abt trading for his outboard, it looks exactly like the pic in this quote, phenominally LOW! Some guys in 4x4's drove down near the edge of the water across the sandbar but near to the waters edge to drop off kayaks then back into the lot to park. Couple bankers fishing off the bar as well. There abt 30 minutes, no catches seen(surprisingly).

 

I'm in. Sounds fun.

 

You’ll see bags of 50 to 100 each guy. You can’t sneeze there without catching a white perch lol. But I’d do it

 

The white perch tournaments had happened a few times but the luster wore out. And I think it's dead on the jump unless there's a prize of sorts. Lots of guys won't waste the time fishing for them without some kind of prize on the line. Let's be honest there's more people that the white devil has ruined their fishing day than those that were excited to catch more than 1 of them. 🤷‍♂️

 

I agree with all that is said. I'm working on this here and there in the fish lab. I will have a much more toned down version of what I previously posted about a white perch tournament.

I haven't forgotten about this and will have updates and ideas throughout the Fall 🍂 and Winter ❄.

Stay twisted 🎣

Don.