Gettin' a Real Bad Cook's Bay First Ice Itch...!!!???

[Duck Hunter Too]

here's why...

http://i486.photobucket.com/albums/rr230/duckhuntertoo/montagecopy.jpg

[Captain]

Cooks is good for first ice, but after that........get out in the Lake;)

http://www.michigan-sportsman.com/photopost/data/500/medium/simcoe_017_1_.jpg

http://www.michigan-sportsman.com/photopost/data/500/medium/simcoe_021_1_.jpg

[Dusty]

I agree with you Captain I have lived on Simcoe my hole life and I think I might have fished for perch in the Gilford area once. If you want the big fish you have to fish where everyone else isn't :lol::lol:,that is my secret.

Dusty

[north-bound]

Those pictures just made the itch get worse. This will be my first time fishing simcoe but were not going till the middle or the end of feb. so i have awhile yet. I have been ready to go since we planned the trip. Hopefully we can get into some slab perch like the ones in the pictures.

[Duck Hunter Too]

cant wait...nice catch Captain!!!...where in the lake were you when you found those?

http://i486.photobucket.com/albums/rr230/duckhuntertoo/slobs.jpg

[Duck Hunter Too]

...but the one was 14 7/8" and 2.35 lbs...

[basskiller46]

Do they still taste as good when they get that big?

[CityHick]

cant wait...nice catch Captain!!!...where in the lake were you when you found those?

http://i486.photobucket.com/albums/rr230/duckhuntertoo/slobs.jpg

Thats the biggest perch I have ever seen.

[Captain]

cant wait...nice catch Captain!!!...where in the lake were you when you found those?



Out in the lake....;) Actually I think we were out of Beaverton on that trip.

[Hart]

Do they still taste as good when they get that big?

The bigger the perch, the mushier the flesh and "less better tasting" they are. I won't say "worse" because even a mushy, big old Simcoe perch is a decent one.