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Nice! Looks like you guys had a fun day out there. Way to thin them out!Slayer, the perch nuggets look great! Curious, what would you say is your average fillet time on each of those little guys? I'm so slow it takes me forever to get through a pile like that.Shaun and I went a bit further North on Sunday, did plenty of filleting myself. Made some fried catfish last night, with a spicy cajun dipping sauce.
Made my first visit to the Jizm today. Fished in the dam area, best around 40 feet depth, with fish coming through at 20-25 feet. Fish were constantly moving around - hard to keep on them. At times they were so thick, the Marcum registered a false bottom. All fish were in that 8 to 8.5” range as has been mentioned. Must have been one great spawn the year they were born.
1st visit ever?
They’re still bitin’ up there:)
That place is too long a hike to go back for lunch in your car…
Ha fellas! I realized I couldn’t count after I took the pic and let my last fish go. As an aside, I had 2 floaters pop up into my hole while I was fishing - hope people realize that if you are catching them as deep as I was, 33-36’, most of them aren’t going to survive a release, even if they swim off. Could be a lot of post release mortality happening up there right now…
There will be some mortality! They need to be thinned out anyhow.
Mortality took 20 today - into my fryng pan for tomorrow. They seemed to be a little finicky today but perch eyes were the bait of choice. Fished in 37 feet of water near dam.
Facebook/fishexploder blew that place up. 15 vehicles in the parking lot at 8am
This thread has +1800 views. YOU guys blew it up. I'm glad that lake isn't in my back yard any more, sheesh.
I think it might be good to define blown up. 15 vehicles. maybe an avg of 2 people per vehicle? lets say those 30 people are competent and catch a limit. so 600 perch MAYBE gone. only 999,400 perch left in there! Id say that parking lot would have to have 100 vehicles to maybe make a dent. And thats 100 vehicles a day of every fishable ice day there is during ice season. So keep going!
Yeah, Like Aurora