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Species
Yellow PerchSeason
Ice
Technique
Ice Fishing Jigs
Structure
Docks
Forage
Minnows
Fished near the docks at Beacon. Loaded with small perch, shiners, panfish, and crappie, but very few jumbo perch. Used various jigs tipped with perch eyes, spikes, and plastics without much success. Tried the main lake also with similar results.
Species
Lake TroutSeason
Winter
Technique
Soft Swimbaits (Sm/Md)
Structure
Ledges
Forage
Alewife
Water Temperature
38°
I got up at 4:15 for a 2 hour 5 minute road trip south to the Finger Lakes searching for Lake Trout & maybe some smallmouth. Things worked out and we caught both. Our best presentation was casting a Keitech 3.3 Fat Swing Impact on a 1/4 oz Jighead into 20-40 foot. Let it sink to the bottom then begin a slow steady retrieve feeling the jig tap the bottom throughout the retrieve. If you loose that periodic bottom contact, stop reeling let it touch bottom and begin the retrieve again. Bites were light but that near or on the bottom presentation produced the most strikes for us today.
Species
Largemouth BassSeason
Summer
Technique
Wacky Rigs
Structure
Docks
Skip under shallow docks wherever there is shade
Mike cleary- morgan fishing
Bronze Ambassador
2/15/23
Species
Largemouth BassSeason
Spring (Spawn)
Technique
Spinnerbaits
Structure
Laydowns
Forage
Minnows
I like to use a terminator spinner bait with black or dark colored rubber worm as a tail on the hook of the spinner you don’t want the worm to long so cut it in half i find that the large mouth bass love that trick but also when the water is nice and flat the rubber frogs or jitter bugs are great for large mouth and small mouth bass when reeling you want to keep it low and slow and give a little jig let it sink reel jig sink
Species
Largemouth BassSeason
Spring (Spawn)
Technique
Drop Shot
Structure
Docks
Cruising around the dock we found cruising spawners. Casted a drop shot to the areas that appeared to be beds. They didn't seem to be locked down. So staying back and making long casts was effective.
Species
Panfish / BluegillSeason
Spring (Pre-Spawn)
Technique
Crankbaits 0-6'
Structure
Submerged Vegetation
Water Temperature
40°
Finding these yellow perch on an Aqua-vu micro revolution was key. Take a look at the video of all of them around the boat! I then picked off a bunch using the Z-Man micro finesse shroomz jig head and shad fryz in pearl and blue glimmer.
Species
Yellow PerchSeason
Spring (Pre-Spawn)
Technique
Drop Shot
Structure
Submerged Vegetation
Forage
Minnows
Water Temperature
41°
Perch are putting on the weight getting ready to spawn. Start out deeper and work shallow until you find the large schools. Lots of 10-12" perch with some pushing 14". Drop shot small soft plastics if you don't have live minnows or if you run out. The larger fish were found in 7-10 feet of water.
