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I would like to thank everyone who helped Cam and I have a great weekend on Chautauqua! We caught a lot of perch at Mayville keeping 70 over the 2 days. Many of you reached out with advice and some even invited us to tag along with you! You have no idea how much I appreciate your kind gestures. Cam is only 6 but is an outdoor fanatic and had an absolute last the past 2 days. PS I want to send a personal shoutout to one member who I won’t name for his great advice. He had posted about doing well so I sent him a pm asking for general info since this was to be my first time. His response was “read the 96 pages”. I love the guys who love to brag about their catch but not willing to help someone out. I would rather no reply at all. Thanks again to all that helped.
Nice good to know , what foot of water ? Couldn’t mark anything deeper than 19
Fished Mayville yesterday after not getting much at Bemus in the morning. Between 3 of us did good in 8 FOW using minnows and waxies. 60 fish kept total between 3 of us some really nice ones compared to other days out here.
I said that to my brother once we ran out of minnows we should just use the eyes. Appreciate the heads up definitely will work with that next trip tight lines to you perch chacer.
Thanks for the information chacer, I used eyes tipped on my stingnose the other day with some success. Do you have any tips for getting the eyes out? I was using my thumb nail but some popped before I got them out and getting those slippery suckers on a tiny hook point is another challenge.
I use a pocket knife and large paperclip. You need to cut the membrane all the way around the eye with your knife and then push a large paperclip in behind the eye and pull the eye out. To make things easier take a few eyes out at home from your catch for the next time. Place the eyes in a small container with water and freeze until you go again then thaw out and pour the water off.
Thank you. I am on it. I use baby food jars for egg sacks so now I can fill one with perch eyes. Will they last a year in the freezer? Different topic, but, How about crappies eyes for bait?