Lake Simcoe, Day 2

Day 2 of fishing Lake Simcoe. Temperature this morning was in the middle 30's and it was raining. It rained most of the day and the temperature stayed in the mid 30's all day. The rain and warm temps was making water puddles on the lake but the lake is still in great shape, the cars and trucks are still driving on the ice.Today we fished the huts closer to shore in about 10 feet of water. The water is still very clear so we were still able to sight fish. Being a little closer to shore there was a lot more traffic around the huts. Every time a machine or vehicle went by the fish would scatter. We used the same set up as yesterday and that seemed to work again. The only problem was we saw a lot less fish today. I tried banging the perch call off the bottom a few more times today without much success. The fishing was OK for the first couple of hours and then it just died off. Right before dark we had a little flurry but overall it was a slow day of fishing. The fish were not as large as yesterday and we caught fewer of them. We kept 34 perch between the two huts and the largest perch was just over 12 inches. Canadian law requires that a portion of the skin remains on the fish for identification so once we get home we can remove the skins and vacuum pack them. Over all we had a good trip, met a lot of great people and brought home a few fish for the fryer.