First perch of the season

[longshot1154]

Went out this morning with my father.  Table 2 water, so only 50 perch limit.  We started out on the ice right around 7:00 AM.  Both of us limited out by 8:05 AM.  4-5 inches of nice black ice.  Only about 3 to 4 inches of snow on top.  We each drilled one hole and within a minute we were on them and never had to move.  Threw back 4 or 5 that were just a little smaller than the ones we kept.  I did have a bullhead come up to my hole three times.  The last time I floated the maggot right in front of his mouth and he took it.  About a 13 inch bullhead.  He went back in as I really don't like the taste of them.

I was kind of upset that we were out for such a short time, as I was really looking forward to going, but shouldn't complain as there were times the perch had the bait before I even closed my bail.

[PerchSlayer21]

Nice meal of perch there, where ya catch them.

[longshot1154]

Nice meal of perch there, where ya catch them.

Can't give away all my secrets.

[PerchSlayer21]

Haha yep very true

[gooner]

I wish we had limits like that our limits are only about 5

[mudchuck]

at least someone was catching them.
out at hathaway's point with minnows and maggots and not even a bite.
marked some on the flasher, but nothing on the hook.
3" of ice under 3" of water and a crust.
fished out to 10FOW, about 100 yards from the launch.
no one out there but me most of the day.

[Smelty88]

Mudchuck i may try to get out on lapan bay tomorrow if your around say hi!

[mudchuck]

ok, we'll see how this ice storm works its way thru, might be sketchy driving up to go fish.

[longshot1154]

We were the only ones out there this morning.  Fishing in about 7 feet of water.  I wasn't too big on the daily limit, as I have fished Champlain all my life, but 50 is about the perfect amount to clean and not have my back hurting when I'm done.  I don't fillet them, do it the way my grandfather taught me.  I brought home 179 a couple years ago and it took me 3 hours to clean them and then into the sink to scrap off the inside of the spine.  I should look into filleting them but just never got around to doing it.

[longshot1154]

We were planning on heading up to the islands, as we fish in a bay on the islands side of Savage Island, but we had heard the wind broke up the inland sea, so we tried the pond.