Hey Larry
The group was made up of Mark, Rich, Brian, daughter Breanne (sp), and myself for breakfast, then Dale and Nick met us at the launch.
Launched under moderately cool, cloudy conditions, with light winds and a bit of a chop on the water. Mark and I headed north to snoop around. The wind was from the south, at about 8 to 12 MPH, so the ride was a little rough, but tolerable.
We worked the East shoreline from Arrowhead pt south and found zero basses. We then hit the West side until we could see Sand Point in the distance ahead of us and still zero basses. We then headed for Hunt's Point and there we met up with Dale and Nick, who were able to show a nice 2 1/2 to 3 lb Largemouth that Dale picked up on a rattletrap.
No bites for us on Hunt's point, nor at Carroline Point Docks. After a complete shutout on bass we decided to lick our wounds and look for some perchies. We headed past Groat point and started watching the sonar unit for bunches of blips and found them in about 70 feet of water. Dropped the crosstailed shad (very light color) down to the bottom and immediately started catching good sized (9 to 11 inch) Perch. Mark was using cut perch after we started to catch a few and hauled in a nice 13 1/2 inch perch to add to our catch. We kept about 20 perch for a fish dinner.
While were on the Perch, Brian and Bree came by and joined us. Rich had headed for home, and Brian said he managed to find one Smallie, and lost another one. When we left, Brian and Bree were catching perch.
We fished the south end of Mercer, nothing, then headed out into the East Channel, nothing, then headed over to Pleasure Pt. and motored around for a bit looking at the bottom for blips and found nothing. So then it was time to head for home.
Overall, the weather was nice, the sun came out and the winds were moderate, no rain and it warmed up enough to shed at least one layer.
All and all a pleasant day on the water with a few tasty perch to take with us.
Sorry you could not make it,
BillB
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