Dave Masse and I decided to give it a go for the Perch at Cooks Bay.
We went to a spot Dave had success with a few days ago.
We were set-up for fishing by 9:20 AM.
I beleive the key was green coontail weeds which hosted tiny scud, a type of fresh water shrimp, if I am not mistaken. You can see them clinging to the weeds.
The Perch we caught were what some consider to be "dinks", but I wanted to have a feed, so I kept them.
We tried moving to deeper water, but did not catch anything.
After trying two other spots, all by walking, we returned to the 1st one and caught some more.
The action was really non stop. As soon as you got your offering on bottom and lifted 2-6 inches, tap, tap, there was another.
A steady lifting motion proved their undoing. If I tried setting the hook, it always resulted in yanking the bait out of their tiny mouths. Also, the time I spent sharpening my hooks the night b4 proved to be time well spent.
We were paid a visit by a Conservation Officer, Mitch, who was anxipous about having his picture taken.
In the photo, It looks like Dave is slapping him, but he is really obliging the CO by covering his face, which as you can see is unnecessary, as the CO had pulled down his riding safety helmet.
On one of our forays looking for another spot we came across Rico Boxing. I got him to demonstrate the effectiveness and speed of a manual Swede Bore auger, which features an off-set handle. I saw first hand how much quicker it bore a hole over the old type inline handle Mora auger. Rico was on his way back, and when I looked he actually ran the whole 3/4 mile ( 1Km) to shore. He is in great shape!
So I managed a total of 29 Perch, and Dave had the requisite 25 on his conservation license.
On the way back I took the time to take a pic of some young future possible NHL fodder playing a game of hockey on the ice that they or someone had scraped. It was good to watch them play, with all their youthfull energy. I myself was winded from the walk.