Still Perch'n....
by Capt Juls on 10/01/13I spent the last two days fishing with Greg and Mark who are from Elkhart, IN. They came down to go perch fishing.
Sunday was a tough bite for us. We moved around 5 or 6 times and only had one limit to show for it. I even kept them out two hours longer than their limited 4 hour trip. We started out by Kelly Island Shoal (south end of it), hit a spot south of Gull Island Shoal, ran up to the red can on the north side of North Bass Island, hit another spot I had success at this past Friday on the north side of South Bass Island, and ended the day out by Gull Island again.
The conditions were not that bad. It rained on us a little bit and the winds were 10-20 out of the SSW, but died down in the afternoon.
Yesterday was much better. They came over in the morning for homemade biscuits and gravy before we headed to the baitshop. Mark had used my computer to print out his one day Canadian Lic, so we would be able to head up to the NW corner of Pelee Island.
We set down in 32 foot of water and proceeded to catch perch right away. It was by no means and up and down bite, but it was fast enough to keep us in one spot all day. It was a beautiful day, but was breezy in the morning. But, by afternoon it was settled down and the lake was almost flat.
The lack of wind, for a change, let us see just how much algae was in the western basin near the bass islands. On our way back in the spray from my boat looked like pea soup. The satellite pictures were showing a large outbreak, but with the wind and waves the algae didn't have a chance to sit on the surface of the water like it did yesterday and it was hard to see just how much was out there. All I can say is, they need to do something or the health of this Great Lake will be destroyed.
Is this the reason that the walleye don't seem to be in this area right now, like they had been all season?
Anyway, I digress....
Mark and Greg limited out and we headed back in. After a nice dinner at the local Mexican restaurant I drove them back to my house where they had parked their truck and boat for the day.
We said our good byes and they happily headed back to Indiana.
I have another trip this morning with two older gentlemen, but we will be staying in US waters today. I'll be trying out from the airport on Kelly's, or the Kelly's Island Shoal, on the north end. :)
Capt Juls
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