Ben and I fished the Inland Sea aboard the Kodiak to see if we could find a bunch of silvers that wanted to play yesterday.
Malletts Bay was muddy and full of debris from the effects of Irene on the Lamoille. Mud and debris was flowing hard North thru the bridge and we had to avoid fishing the west side.
We set up trolling off the beach in 70ish fow to to see if any silvers were up in skinnier water since the storm cooled things off a bit. Nope, no silvers but plenty of white perch.
We turned back west, got in front of the bridge, and turned north to head out toward Cedar when my slide diver fired. Hard.
Head shaking and staying deep I had high hopes of a brown...then near the boat we see gold...
or bronze.
Great fight but not what we'd hoped for.
A strong, hard fighting, 16" small-mouth suspended over deep water gets returned.
Trolling along the north eastern corner of Cedar, Ben gets release that doesn't look like a white perch. Behind the boat the surface breaks and a short silver is on! After a gazillion whites, finally a silver shows. Although short, our hopes are rekindled!
Not long after, Ben does it again! This time a nicer silver!
Strong, clean healthy, 18 incher full of energy...released without a pic.
We weren't surprised when we knew both salmon hit the same lure. We tried to copy it with others but wasn't successful.
A Crazy Ivan spoon...I think Ben said it was called the Halloween Slasher!
We tried everything to get away from the white perch, depths, lure changes, speeds, you name it. The only place we didn't get perch was where the screen was blank, dead water, nothing there. We covered a lot of water and found them very heavily concentrated along the eastern shore line...the screen nearly black at times.
Those little scavengers would hit everything. Even a big ol large Honey Bee that was nearly the same size as this fish! What the heck did this perch think it was gonna do with that???
Total for the day, 2 salmon, 2 small-mouth, and a bucket of white perch.
Anyway....it was a good day to be on the water.
Thanks Ben...and thanks for the idea to start a white perch charter service!!!
