MyFishFinder.com Just like iceshanty but warmer
All I use are bare bibbits (no bait) in combination colors like hot orange, chartreuse, white with bloodline and green/ brown when they are eating snails and fresh water shrimp. I fish with a lite weight soft tip 30 inch rod with 6 pound trilene sensation in solar. Water depth ranges from 6 feet to 30 averaging 12 to 16 for most of my trips. I personally don't care to go for deep water perch even though there are usually some big fish. The size we look for are normally commercial large 8" to 11" with many jumbos ranging up to a pound and a half when you are on a large school. When you find a school they take the bare bibbit fished near the bottom really well. When the bite is on quite a few per minute can be caught because the bibbits are barbless and dunking the fish in a bucket or on the ice releases them. Great for fishing with gloves on a cold day because you don't have to handle the fish. That style of fishing is common on the northern end of Champlain.