St. Joe 7/7/7

[Take Six...]

Finally took some perch home. Took 70 to find 40 keepers. Trolled right from the pierheads straight out to 30fow. I was using the usual crappie rigs with minows. Things we're a little too slow for my daughter, she got bored and started watching the fish in the Aquaview. She was watching upwards of five fish just staring at my minnow but not hitting it. I changed to a similar rig that had some bright yellow feathers with a beaded head. The change up made the difference. I was catching five to one compared to the standard set-up.

[salmonslammer]

Last week we kept only perch over 9 inches. We fished south in front of the A frames. I use sweedish pimples with a single hook which I tip with a thin strip of belly meat from a king or lake trout out of the box as we usually troll for a few hours before we look for perch. The bigger perch seem to go after that rather than minnows.