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So I've been to Magog,Waterbury res,Woodbury lake .I've had no luck as a beginner 4-8pm on each lake.ive used jigs,spikes,few lures still no luck . I'd really like to get smelt perch or trout .is am better after dark?I've been 10-30ft deep.I'm planning on trying willloby and joes . any tips would be great .thanks for the you tube videos big wiggle .your king fisherman !!
Thanks guys for the awesome tips,I live in morrisvile for who asked.what a great forum!!!!!
Perch tend to shut down when the sun sets. 4-8 PM is a tough window to fish for them. For a beginner, I'd recommend not starting with trout. They can be tough, and fishless days are not unusual. This time of year I'd start searching out perch as they begin moving shallow. Find the weeds in maybe 8-10 FOW and set up near the edge. A good way to locate a school is to spread out a half-dozen tip ups with fatheads a foot or so off bottom, and start jigging with spikes or a minnow head. When a flag pops (and one will), catch the fish and then start jigging that hole. Usually you'll get into a few more before the school moves on. Sometimes you'll be there for awhile and catch a dozen or more. I've had real good luck this time of year with a small jigging Rap in gold or perch with a perch eye on the belly hook. Demons are good, Buckshots, and small Swedish pimples are always good. Perch generally are not fussy when they're feeding. Anything with flash and some sort of bait will do the job.
Great Tip and i have done this and it works, another thing you could do is drill another hole by tip hole about 5 feet away and when the flag goes off on your tip up and you have a pretty good idea its a perch , then try to resist the urge to pull that tip up , instead start jigging that hole right next to the tip and sometimes that will catch you perch . What it look like to another perch is a feeding frenzy and having a second bait down there can catch you more fish.
Now that is a great tip. I probably would have never thought of something like that bigwiggle but now that you've mentioned it, I can see why it might be productive and make the other fish think something is going on and they come around investigating.Great tip & a great forum....