Fishing Report Perch - Inner LP Bay - Monday, Oct. 5th

[Duck Soup]

Tried for perch this morning fishing the Inner Bay between the Fin & Feather and John Aker's in about 8.5 or less feet of water.
No minnows to be had and we couldn't buy any worms so we used salties. Great weather and we did OK catching 18 nice keepers plus about 5 times as many rejects. Surprisingly the fish we caught were either small or fairly big with only one around 8". We never anchored and caught everything drift fishing. Winds were light N to W between 4 and 10 knots. Water temp was 57F and we fishing for about 3 hours.

 

[packrat]

Tried for perch this morning fishing the Inner Bay between the Fin & Feather and John Aker's in about 8.5 or less feet of water.
No minnows to be had and we couldn't buy any worms so we used salties. Great weather and we did OK catching 18 nice keepers plus about 5 times as many rejects. Surprisingly the fish we caught were either small or fairly big with only one around 8". We never anchored and caught everything drift fishing. Winds were light N to W between 4 and 10 knots. Water temp was 57F and we fishing for about 3 hours.

right on Arnie----they do exist!!!!

 

[redriverguy]

Good catching. What do you use when you drift. Light jigs, spinners???

 

[Duck Soup]

Good catching. What do you use when you drift. Light jigs, spinners???

We were both using simple 2 hook drop shot rigs with light weights. We normally use drop shot rigs when anchored and spinner rigs when drifting but the perch were responding to moving dead bait this morning and it was hard to get a bite if you didn't move it.

 

[walleyeman]

Nice fishing Arnie. Also- Great photo of Albert I might add. Memories to share for a lifetime. Great fishing to the both of you. Thanks for the report. Walleyeman.

 

[redriverguy]

Thank you for the information

 

[Wave Runner]

Nice report Arnie and also perch I might add.

 

[fishstalker]

Got an email today from Ray Ferris he's got minnows

 

[Duck Soup]

Got an email today from Ray Ferris he's got minnows

Thanks fishstalker! My neighbor passed on the same message. Assume live minnows will work better than salties. Yesterday was actually the first time I've used salties successfully.

 

[Rylann]

Where is Ray Ferris located? I was hoping to sneak out later on in the week.

 

[Duck Soup]

Where is Ray Ferris located? I was hoping to sneak out later on in the week.

Old Cut Marina at Long Point

 

[Bent Pole]

Nice job you and Albert put together there Arnie. Real nice perch.

 

[Rylann]

Old Cut Marina at Long Point

Thank you. And good luck getting some more perch! It is that time of year.