Perch/Bass - North Shore - Saturday, July 30th

[Duck Soup]

Perfect morning to fish the north shore....sunny, light NW breeze and not too warm.
Others had already found the fish between Normandale and Port Ryerse when we arrived sometime around 9:00 am. It was great....we ended up with 32 keeper perch to 13", estimate we caught and released 24 SM Bass, most if not all under 2 pounds and caught and released all but 5 of about 36 rock bass, some of which were huge. Guessing the three of us fished for 3 hours.
Our objective was to enjoy ourselves, catch a few fish, have enough to eat but not end up with too many. Mission accomplished!

 

[jumbos]

Sounds like a nice day Arnie.....Oh ya and Rockies are sooooooo.......Yummmmmmy

Brian (Legend Man)

 

[packrat]

Mission accomplished indeed Arnie----32 is a nice easy # to clean.

Enjoy!!!!

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[Cap'nkirk]

Nice going Arnie

Kirk

 

[canvasbacksca]

Sounds great, Duck! Were you catching the bass on the same "rig" that you were using for perch?

 

[Duck Soup]

Canvasbacksca, Albert caught by far the most SM and Rock Bass using a small spinner bait and minnow. I'm sure he had a fish every cast for the first half hour. I switched to a pickerel rig and caught some bass but estimate 50% perch. I caught far fewer fish than did Albert. John was using the drop shot method and wasn't doing as well...probably because his hook was too low. I was catching most of my fish on the top hook of the pickerel rig. Some boats did really well on perch...we were in 14-15 fow and they were in about 12-13 fow. We ran out of minnows in any case and were not interested in keeping a lot of fish, so we didn't move.
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Originally posted by canvasbacksca

Sounds great, Duck! Were you catching the bass on the same "rig" that you were using for perch?

 

[andrewm]

Nicely done! We haven't been down there in quite some time - was up north first week of July, then boat out of commission for the past couple weeks as I await some parts for the trailer (still waiting...).

Did get out fishing with my boy in the canoe the past 2 Saturdays though; much closer to home and did very well. Yesterday we caught 15 smallmouth over the course of the day; 10 of which were 16+ inches. So not bad for only a 5-minute drive!