Author Topic: White Perch (Read 16120 times)

Vtperchchaser · « **Reply #60 on:** Mar 11, 2021, 03:34 PM »

I haven’t heard that. I will def be searching after ice out seeings I haven’t got them through the ice in three yrs now

Light liner · « **Reply #61 on:** Mar 11, 2021, 09:16 PM »

End of next week I’m guessing, more are being caught mixed in with the yellows. Just a guess.

Mcleodr · « **Reply #62 on:** Mar 12, 2021, 09:24 AM »

Any white s yet

Vtperchchaser · « **Reply #63 on:** Mar 12, 2021, 03:09 PM »

Anyone checked Hathaway/killkare for whites? Ice conditions? I’d like to go Sunday if I can still safely get on the ice

ice fiend · « **Reply #64 on:** Mar 12, 2021, 03:53 PM »

20+ mph winds on Sunday make sure you anchor your but to the ice so you don’t get blown away rofl

Vtperchchaser · « **Reply #65 on:** Mar 12, 2021, 06:15 PM »

Yeah if the wind is blowing more than 5-10 at home I won’t be going. last time I fished the bay two yrs ago in high wind thought for sure I was going to be another statistic. I had a homemade fold down shanty. Plywood ends no floor and tarp for walls. I had it anchored to the ice on 4 corners and it held up but 50 mph gusts were scary. I caught 2 decent pike and one big one. It also rained for 3 hrs that day. Forecast only called for 10-15 mph wind and scattered snow showers lol tight lines my friends looks like the end is near😭

JRK22.250 · « **Reply #66 on:** Mar 13, 2021, 07:55 PM »

I fished all over hathaways today and only found yellows, from the green can all the way to south end of burton island. ice was down to 9-10" not too many people out there today. ice is definitely going fast. starting to look like another year where the ice is gone before the whites come in.

Vtperchchaser · « **Reply #67 on:** Mar 14, 2021, 06:33 AM »

That was my fear. Kind of surprised they aren’t starting to stack in there now

cbice · « **Reply #68 on:** Mar 14, 2021, 07:29 AM »

I wonder if they have changed their patterns or something? In the past they would be in there already.

LittleFishin · « **Reply #69 on:** Mar 14, 2021, 08:03 AM »

When they removed all the water chestnut or whatever milfoil a year or so ago it musta changed how they view the area... Where is the next biggest weedbed in 15-30'? My guess is the schools would stay broken up more of the West shore rd by all the private camp access. Gotta go a ways out to hit the depths but that's the only thing I can think that would explain the lack of numbers, so may be worth looking.

JRK22.250 · « **Reply #70 on:** Mar 14, 2021, 12:31 PM »

I wonder how much of an impact all the alewives are having on that area?

Vtperchchaser · « **Reply #71 on:** Mar 14, 2021, 05:30 PM »

I feel like they follow the yellows into the bay. They love to eat their eggs. Song with walleye eggs. Did they do like the snow geese after being devastated several yrs in a row and just go somewhere safer? Yellows are just now spawning in the bay so makes sense the whites are just starting to show up here and there but maybe they are smarter than we give them credit for? Would be easier to figure out if we had 16” of ice still

JRK22.250 · « **Reply #72 on:** Mar 14, 2021, 06:46 PM »

If the weather forecast is accurate, we may get one more weekend, hopefully

NHHARDWATER · « **Reply #73 on:** Mar 15, 2021, 06:26 PM »

A group of friends and I hit the bay hard Sunday 3/14. We fished from the point, almost to the can and spread out to fish our way south to burton island and back in depths from 17-45fow.
Zero whites. Not one. single. stray. white.
6,000 yellows

Ice still looked good imo, but lacking in thickness. I measured 10" in most places with a few holes at 9" thickness
Shorelines are slightly breaking up and thinning. but still ok.

JRK22.250 · « **Reply #74 on:** Mar 15, 2021, 06:54 PM »

Pretty much identical to what I found saturday.

Vtperchchaser · « **Reply #75 on:** Mar 16, 2021, 04:59 AM »

Hoping to get out there Saturday. 2 yrs ago I hit them middle of the week. Of course I was off from work for a month so was no problem.... stupid work and responsibilities

Light liner · « **Reply #76 on:** Mar 16, 2021, 05:58 AM »

They could be migrating to another area, 8-10 years ago we were catching them at cow banks.

hardwaterhonkey · « **Reply #77 on:** Mar 16, 2021, 07:41 AM »

They are fairly established into South Bay now not the numbers you guys see up that way but they stay all year and get beat on just enough to stay weeded out in a way if no one fished it in winter they would take over

Vtperchchaser · « **Reply #78 on:** Mar 18, 2021, 07:01 PM »

Anyone been out to Hathaway recently? Curious is you can still get on the ice

ice fiend · « **Reply #79 on:** Mar 18, 2021, 09:02 PM »

Guess some guys got em out on champlain by the green barrel on champ guess they got around 200 lbs of em saw the photos on fb

Light liner · « **Reply #80 on:** Mar 19, 2021, 10:23 AM »

Yup, they’re catching them, hope you guys get on em’
Just stay safe.

lethostigma · « **Reply #81 on:** Mar 19, 2021, 10:39 AM »

Are guys talking about the green can off Hathaway?

Vtperchchaser · « **Reply #82 on:** Mar 19, 2021, 11:23 AM »

Yeah the ice looks like a old crapty honey comb lol. Think I’ll pass. Tight lines

ice fiend · « **Reply #83 on:** Mar 19, 2021, 02:39 PM »

Same I’m not risking my life some fish good luck those that try it bring a PFD you’ll prob need it after this weekend

scottk · « **Reply #84 on:** Mar 19, 2021, 05:50 PM »

I drove down there at noon today. Still about 8 people out from Hathaway point to the green can. Probably more earlier. Also drove by Popasquash and there were 6 or so people out there, some beyond the island.
I may try somewhere tomorrow morning, but not Lake Champlain. Too chicken.

mudchuck · « **Reply #85 on:** Mar 21, 2021, 06:30 AM »

I see they’ve been found.

JRK22.250 · « **Reply #86 on:** Mar 21, 2021, 09:03 AM »

Been out at hathaways since 7am. About 10 people out here now, no whites yet

ice fiend · « **Reply #87 on:** Mar 21, 2021, 11:26 AM »

I was out there as well. Fished till about 11 and called it. Nothing but yellows nobody was getting whites anywhere

JRK22.250 · « **Reply #88 on:** Mar 21, 2021, 11:59 AM »

Stayed till one, nothing but dink yellows. Thats it for me this year. Will hope for a better outcome next year

NHHARDWATER · « **Reply #89 on:** Mar 22, 2021, 10:56 AM »

I stayed until dark Yesterday. We found some in the evening.
I do not recommend walking out there after today. We left at dark, and the shorelines were junk, and I walked across an area that I could feel the ice sag under my feet. ice was very inconsistent toward the end of the day.

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Author Topic: White Perch (Read 16120 times)