LAKE ERIE PERCHIN 7/30 MAYBE MY BEST DAY EVER (pics)

[GONE FISHIN(LARRY)]

Fished Lake Erie with my family this evning ,we had non stop action from 4 pm to 8:30 pm , put 137 perch in the cooler , with many JUMBO'S a 13 and 1/2 inch was our biggest , we had at least 20 fish over 10 inches most were in the 7 to 9 inch range . I've had many great days perchin on Lake Erie though the years , today was near the top . We had a 2 minute rule if 2 minutes went by and you have not caught a fish bring you line in , cause you have no bait . We were out near Spudnick .

[GONE FISHIN(LARRY)]

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Top pic todays catch .
Bottom pic our 13and 1/2 inch jumbo


LARRY

[NEMichsportsman]

Nice job Larry and Crew!

Chasing Kings out of Oscoda whenever I et the chance really has cut into my Perch Fishing. It has been a bunch of years since I went Perch Fishing on the soft water...and a bunch more since we caught numbers even close to what you did!


Thanks for bringing back some fond memories of a largely bygone era (for our family anyhow)...

[sfw1960]

Great job Larry!
That's a beautiful mess of yellow bellies ya got there!;)
For the past 6-10 years the Perch numbers have been waaaay down - but from what I've been seein' & hearin' (Where I fish there's been an AWESOME perch hatch - this yr.) , the perch are on the rebound :) & next year's perchin' should equal or surpass what's going on currently.They've been eating the Zebra Mussels and the pond doesn't have the numbers it did a few years ago~
My Wife & I , as well as a few friends have been hitting them pretty well in the past month - and if they keep up at this rate , I'm going to fill the freezer and stay inside this winter! (j/k)
NEMichsportsman , take some time & go git 'em!!;)
I think the glory days are a'comin' ........
Happy cleanin' , happy eatin' !!!!!!!!!!!!!
:D Robert :D

[GONE FISHIN(LARRY)]

Thanks Guy's ,
The kids and I just spent 2 hours and 15 mins cleaning and bagging perch . I hoping the good old days of perch fishin are here , most years I don't start to target perch till late August , this July in 5 trips to ERIE we've almost put 300 perch in the boat , what I'm most happy with this year is that the size seems way up over last year . I can thank the poor salmon fishing on Lake Huron this year , to be out perchin , or I'd be chasing salmon and trout it is very nice to be filling the freezer full of perch .

LARRY

[bolodunn]

i don't believe you show me how you did it! :lol: :lol: ;) ;)
great job on the perch!! i'm gonna have to get my youngins out there!

[GONE FISHIN(LARRY)]

bolodunn ,
Get them youngins out while the gettin good . My job yesterday was to put minnows on and take perch off . My two oldest pretty take care of there own rods , but my 7 year and wife kept me hoping .

LARRY

[Leakypipe56]

Larry, way to go on the perch. I would of been out there Sunday but my motor is giving me problems:bash: . The wife and I were out Friday, out of erie metro marina and caught 26 nice ones 9+". Hope to get the boat running this week so we can make the run out to Sputnik. Hoping to get out Thursday morning. Were you using the big shinners cut in half?

[KI Jim]

Larry,


WHOHOOOOO!!! Nice catch!

Great to see you and the kids did well. We finally hat a good weekend at KI-I'll post that on another thread.

Jim

[GONE FISHIN(LARRY)]

Leakypipe56 ,
Both Friday and Saturday we used chubs , at least they have been perch size they seem to be working fine . Been stopping at Jeff's BAIT they have
been give us a great count on minnows .


JIM,
I even had Shari and the baby out with with us Saturday evning . Sounds like you had a pretty good weekend of fishing yourself . Hows the new toy running ?

LARRY

[KI Jim]

Larry,


Wow, you had everyone out. New toy is running fine (now). Are you using electric knife to fillet them perch?

Jim

[GONE FISHIN(LARRY)]

Jim,
We got fish cleaning down to a science here , we got a very effcient assembly line going , evryone gets there hands dirty except the war department(Shari) and the baby . Ryan has become pretty good with the fillet knife . With the number of perch we had to clean I thought we knocked em out pretty quick . My new electric knife is still at the store , mine old ONE died last year . I been cleaning the old fashioned way teaching Ryan , I just might ask santa for a new one this year . Glad to hear the boat is running fine now .


LARRY

[KI Jim]

Larry,


I love it-clean perch the old fashioned way.....teach Ryan ;) !. What makes it so funny is I am doing same with Matt.

Jim

[ramlund man]

okay guys--- just where the heck is "the sputnik" anyway -my work partner and i were just droolin over those yummy yellow bellies ya posted on this thread :D :D

[Leakypipe56]

[QUOTE=ramlund man]okay guys--- just where the heck is "the sputnik" anyway -my work partner and i were just droolin over those yummy yellow bellies ya posted on this thread :D :D


Michigan Waters
Cross Dyke N 41 05.00 W 83 10.00 Banana Dyke N 41 59.00 W 83 12.00
Ferrmi II N 41 57.00 W 83 15.00 E Bouy N 41 49.00 W 83 21.00
Toledo Beach N 41 48.00 W 83 24.00 Two Stacks/River Raisin N 41 53.00 W 83 17.00
Dumping Grounds N 41 48.00 W 83 21.00 Stoney Point N 41 56.00 W 83 15.00
Swamp (AKA Corner) N 41 47.00 W 83 26.00 Brest Bay N 41 55.00 W 83 17.00
Ohio Waters
Sputnik N 41 49.00 W 83 13.00 McDonalds N 41 47.00 W 83 15.50
Turnaround Bouy N 41 50.00 W 83 10.00 Maumee Bay N 41 43.00 W 83 26.00
Toledo Light N 41 45.70 W 83 19.70 West Sister Island N 41 44.20 W 83 06.60
Turtle Island N 41 45.00 W 83 23.50 Water Intake N 41 43.00 W 83 16.00
Gravel Pit N 41 45.00 W 83 14.00 Davis Besse N 41 36.50 W 83 07.80
Camp Perry Range Cans
A-Can N 41 41.50 W 83 07.50 B-Can N 41 41.50 W 83 03.65
C-Can N 41 41.50 W 83 00.00 D-Can N 41 38.55 W 82 57.40
E-Can N 41 37.10 W 82 56.15 F-Can N 41 35.70 W 82 54.80
G-Can N 41 34.60 W 82 56.80 H-Can N 41 33.60 W 83 58.65
J-Can N 41 36.00 W 83 03.30 K-Can N 41 37.85 W 83 04.80
L-Can N 41 39.85 W 83 06.35
Ohio Lake Erie Reef's
West Sister Reef N 41 31.45 W 83 07.70 Crane Reef N 41 40.66 W 83 06.42
Big Pickerel Reef N 41 40.00 W 83 03.80 Turtle Reef N 41 38.91 W 83 06.00
Locust Reef N 41 38.71 W 83 03.92 Cone Reef N 41 40.00 W 83 02.75
Flat Rock Reef N 41 39.49 W 83 01.07 Crib Reef N 41 38.78 W 83 00.49
Toussaint Reef N 41 37.94 W 83 01.04 Round Reef N 41 37.04 W 82 59.15
Niagara Reef N 41 39.84 W 82 58.39 Little Pickerel Reef N 41 40.15 W 83 01.29
Northwest Reef N 41 44.69 W 82 53.51 West Reef N 41 42.71 W 82 50.79
Schoolhouse Reef N 41 42.19 W 82 49.65 Sugar Island Reef N 41 41.82 W 82 49.02
Buckeye Reef N 41 40.30 W 82 47.22 Mouse Island Reef N 41 36.37 W 82 50.15
Clinton Reef N 41 33.62 W 82 52.91 Starve Island Reef N 41 36.79 W 82 48.80
West Harbor Reef N 41 34.69 W 82 48.39 Middle Harbor Reef N 41 34.12 W 82 47.70
Lakeside Reef N 41 33.17 W 82 45.10 American Eagle Shoal N 41 36.00 W 82 46.00
Marblehead Reef N 41 31.86 W 82 40.50 Kelley's Island Shoal N 41 38.31 W 82 38.79
Canadian Waters
Holiday Beach N 42 02.00 W 83 03.00 Colchester N 41 58.00 W 82 56.00
East Sister Island N 41 49.39 W 82 50.54 Leamington N 42 02.10 W 82 38.00
Middle Sister Island N 41 51.00 W 83 00.00
Canadian / Ohio Border Cans
C-Can N 41 40.58 W 82 35.01 D-Can N 41 40.58 W 82 40.79
E-Can N 41 42.91 W 82 45.60 F-Can N 41 47.00 W 82 54.10
G-Can N 41 49.35 W 82 58.79 H-Can N 41 51.89 W 83 04.09
Canadian Lake Erie Reef's
Gull Island Shoal N 41 39.29 W 82 40.31 North Harbor Island Reef N 41 50.90 W 82 51.12
East Sister Shoal N 41 49.38 W 82 50.54 Hen Island Shoal N 41 48.50 W 82 47.50
Transport Reef N 41 45.29 W 82 49.32 Colchester Reef N 41 55.00 W 82 53.40
Ennis Reef N 41 44.55 W 82 48.20 Wagon Wheel Reef N 41 45.40 W 82 43.50
King George Reef N 41 41.30 W 82 39.82 Winter Reef N 41 48.42 W 82 36.87
Millpoint Reef N 41 44.77 W 82 36.00 Chickenolee Reef N 41 42.90 W 82 36.85
Middle Ground Shoal N 41 50.66 W 82 34.49 Grub Reef N 41 52.76 W 82 32.81
East Shoal N 41 51.89 W 82 28.50 South East Shoal N 41 50.20 W 82 28.50

[GONE FISHIN(LARRY)]

Leakypipe56 ,
You got my vote for man of the hour , I found out last night I lost the memory to my gps , one of my kids maybe the dog pulled the power cord to my gps out from the fuse panel , my daughter and I punched back in what I had wrote done , most I still had look up yet .You just saved me a whole lot of time THANK YOU .

LARRY

[Leakypipe56]

Larry,

I can not take all the credit, I copied it from another MS memebers post;) . Let me know if you get on the perch this week. The wife and I are trying to go out on Thursday if my motor gets fix:bash: . Dave at Lockeman's http://lockemans.com/ want me to bring her in tonight. He has been pulling his hair out on this one. Talk to you later

Vince

[GONE FISHIN(LARRY)]

Vince ,
Were headed out this afternoon , my son has basketball camp to till 1 , hope to on the water by 3 , my dad is in town and wants to head out with us ,this will be the first time in a number of years we will have 3 generations fishing together . I will try to remember to post our results tonight .

LARRY

[GONE FISHIN(LARRY)]

A different story today , we could only manage 31 perch , our average size was great most in the 8 to 10 inch class , started out by spudnick , moved a couple times had great marks just could not get them going today .

LARRY

[GONE FISHIN(LARRY)]

Going to give another try today , will post how I due .

LARRY

[GONE FISHIN(CRYSTAL)]

Nice Catch Dad! ;)

~*~Crystal~*~

[Bruce William]

Went out of Sterling 24ft got 2 walleyes threw 4 back with dipseys and scorpion spoons with larger scorpion as the flasher spoon. I then made the 9 mile run to Spunick just to find out I left my Ohio license in my Maumee bag what a bummer there must have been 200 boats there went back to try to find the perch in 23ft at Sterling but not good. It is only so often that I will take that ride over to Sputnick I was really bummed out but whatever.