Sunday, August 28, 2016

First Perch Trip of the Year

Fished with Joe and Daryl. Temperature this morning was in the lower 70's and when we quit fishing it was in the upper 80's. Pretty hot for this time of year. The water is a little dirty from all the storms the last couple of weeks. The wind was light out of the southwest less than 10 knots, with waves less than a foot. The water temp is 76 Degrees. Started fishing just past the Michigan dumping grounds in 21 feet of water and we never moved. The catching was just steady and we were not catching very large fish, but I did not feel like chasing perch today. We kept 81 perch and had a lot of throw backs. Most of the perch were just over eight inches and we only had a few over 10 inches. You know the catching is tough when you have to measure most of the fish before they go into the cooler. After we were done cleaning the fish the alarms went off and there was a tornado warning for Monroe County. Luckily we missed all of that. I actually fished today and it felt good. When we pulled the anchor we caught another anchor that had been in the lake for a while. Daryl was not too happy bringing in two anchors at once but he survived.

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