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hey fillet been awhile since i fished it but you know another short walk on oneida .... polar beach isn't that bad .... kinda hit and miss but you even get sun fish there with the perch and some whites to boot!i havn't fished it in a long time tho
A question for the group. Was fishing off Chapman Sat morning, with lots of lookers, but caught an interesting creature and wondered if anyone else had caught or seen one. Sorry no picture as I didn't think of it at the time, I was so surprised. Was in 25 FOW and reeled up something I thought was a dink perch or walleye as there was barely a fight. When it showed itself, I first thought it was a burbot by the color and shape, then I saw it had legs. Looking it up later, it appeared it may have been a hellbender. It was about a foot long. It went back in the hole, but has anyone else seen or caught any of these things? In looking them up, they appear to live mostly in streams, which surprised me that it hit from the bottom of the lake. As I was unhooking it, it didn't have teeth, so I ruled out (thank God) a snakehead. Just curious, but any thoughts would be appreciated. Thanks.
Your right filet, that drag got the legs burning even with the smitty, got two more days off, gonna hit that spot by my place, i'll send ya some pics later
wert tell jackperch about the hill on and off don't go there if you have a weak heart , no joke
not fishing for walleyes these days. looking for the other white meat...............got enough walleyes already. and yes NO pictures or reports for now. incogneito for a while
Thanks, I saw that and was thinking I'll try it early ice next year. I don't think I'll be testing the new pacemaker/defib device...
You guys weren't s***'n about the drag. This was only the second time I have fished Oneida and the last time without a machine. I am a 31 year old guy in good shape who runs and works out regularly. My buddy is probably 6'2" and is a beast. And we thought we were going to DIE! We made it halfway to where we could see huts and said "lets try here eh". While we probably over packed the sled (mainly beer) and three guys worth of gear i never thought i would have such a hard time. THis plan resulted in mainly dinks at Constiana and nothing off of App's.Props to those make the journey on foot. I am going to take some Advil and ice my legs while swallowing my pride.Till next year!
Hey nysportsman find those white perch u were after over weekend?
Just wondering how the ride out is with the snow. Would I be alright with the wheeler?
No unfortunately not. Hence the 3 mile round about. We were moving around a lot. It's very possible that the some of the ones we lost on the way up were white perch. One of my buddies says that they swim in circles on the way up. I didn't have them hooked long enough to be able to tell the difference. I'm going to try again next week.
White perch are unmistakable when you hook them. They pull hard enough to feel like an eye or pickeral yet the vibration from the head shake is very fast & erratic since they're small, unlike the slower harder thumping of the longer bodied fish. Once you get a couple you'll understand.good luck
You'll know it's a white perch when it swims circles around the hole tangling your dead stick line and then you're transducer. Then as you get that mess out of the hole it flexes it's body and sticks one of the barbs on it's pectoral fins through you hand. Then, after a bunch of swearing, you try to pop the hook out of it's mouth but it's so bony that the hook breaks off in it. That's a white perch.Good luck. Catch all of them, please.
