Tough Day Perching

Fished with Uncle Dan. Temperature this morning was in the lower 70s and when we quit fishing it was in the lower 80s. The wind in the morning was out of the northeast about 10 knots and then it switched to the north about 5 knots. The waves in the morning were about 2 feet and on the way back to the marina they were less than 6 inches. The water temp is 78 Degrees and there is no sign of algae yet. Started fishing by the 17 and 18 buoys and the catching was slow but at least we were on some perch. The reports from a fellow fisherman from TBM was the fishing was terrible by the W and C buoys. We were picking away at the perch when a couple of boats anchored about 30 feet from us and the catching just stopped. Made one move in this area to avoid the boats but it did not help. Pulled the anchor and headed to the 13 and 14 buoys. We caught a couple of perch here but there were just too many white perch. Decided to head towards the dumping grounds and troll for walleye to see if we could locate some. Trolled here for about 45 minutes with jet 20s set at 50 to 60 feet back and only caught a couple of silver bass so we called it a day. Kept 23 perch.