Perch'n with the McKenna Group 8/31/14
by Capt Juls on 08/31/14Paul McKenna set up a 4 hour trip for his friends today. It was originally supposed to be a 4 hour walleye trip, but I convinced them that they would have more fun fishing for perch, since the walleye bite is a little slower right now and we wouldn't have the time to get where we need to go to get eyes.
I fished with Dave, Jameson, and DJ today. We launched from Mazurik's at 10am and headed to the Marblehead lighthouse area, because I had gotten a text from a friend that said they were biting pretty good over there. I was told there were perch that were going 2 to a pound. But, that wasn't the case this morning for us. I gave it a 1/2 hour and we only had 3 little perch in the cooler, so we picked up and headed to Catawba where I was also told that there was a good bite going on over there. Once we wasted the time to get there we found it was too rough, so we headed back and I turned and decided to go to my numbers from last week that I posted.
We started picking up fish right away...mostly junk fish to start, but then the yellows started biting. Had we gone there right away this morning (would have been too rough out there at that time though) we might have limited out. Unfortunately, due to the time constraints, we only had a little over one ticket to bring in.
Poor DJ started feeling poorly as soon as we got way out there, so he spent most of the time laying on the bow trying to feel better. :(
As the afternoon progressed the winds laid down and the lake conditions greatly improved. The ride back in wasn't bad at all.
Tomorrow is another perch trip, so I won't be wasting any time. I'll be heading north! ha!
Stay tuned....
Capt Juls
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