Clampet Posted January 31, 2007 Report Share Posted January 31, 2007 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canadian_copper Posted January 31, 2007 Report Share Posted January 31, 2007 NICE REPORT!!! YA MITCH IS A SWELL GUY!!! SEE AND TALK TO HIM ALOT ON THE RIVERS!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattyk Posted January 31, 2007 Report Share Posted January 31, 2007 nice report. Good to see the CO's out there! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joefish Posted January 31, 2007 Report Share Posted January 31, 2007 Great report Clampet!! What was Dave giving the CO in that yellow tube??? Hmmmmm hiding his face was he? LOL!!! Great job on the pics! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joefish Posted January 31, 2007 Report Share Posted January 31, 2007 Ya scared me with that Mary Jane response!!! HA HA HA!!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DMASSE Posted January 31, 2007 Report Share Posted January 31, 2007 HEY CLAMPET (PAUL) Thanks for the day, it was perfect weather, good company and tons of fish, eeven the little one can be fun... took me a whilke to clean but way easier while still frozen. Lets do it again soon Thanks again DAVE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
urbanangler1990 Posted January 31, 2007 Report Share Posted January 31, 2007 nice report, glad ya got out there! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FishFinder Posted January 31, 2007 Report Share Posted January 31, 2007 do you end up getting any meat from the really small ones? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ccmtcanada Posted January 31, 2007 Report Share Posted January 31, 2007 Awesome report! Looks like you had a great day out on the hard water. Nice haul and great pics too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Puckhead Posted January 31, 2007 Report Share Posted January 31, 2007 do you end up getting any meat from the really small ones? They make good toothpicks... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carp Posted January 31, 2007 Report Share Posted January 31, 2007 Thanks for the report and pics Clampet. Looks like a good time. One of these days I'll get out there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ricoboxing Posted January 31, 2007 Report Share Posted January 31, 2007 that musta been someone else posing as me. I spent the day sick at home cough,cough,hack !! by the way, thats a fin bore III, not a swede bore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disspatcher Posted January 31, 2007 Report Share Posted January 31, 2007 Nice Fish....25 more and you had one hell of a feed! Congrats. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fisherman Posted January 31, 2007 Report Share Posted January 31, 2007 The only thing I didn't like out there yesterday were the 2 Astro vans driving around, 8 inches of ice and water geysers are not amusing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joey Posted January 31, 2007 Report Share Posted January 31, 2007 Great report Paul. How many of those little suckers did it take to make one sandwich We just bought that Fin Bore and it is so much faster than the Swede Bore. Money well spent for sure. Joey Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terry Posted January 31, 2007 Report Share Posted January 31, 2007 I would have told everyone that he was carp slapping the Co..makes for a better story... looks like a good day on the ice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Pike Posted January 31, 2007 Report Share Posted January 31, 2007 Nice report and pics guys. A good time and some fish for the fry pan. The Finbore is a great auger! Makes quick work of drilling with not too much effort so you don't mind jumping around to different spots chasing the schools. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
douG Posted January 31, 2007 Report Share Posted January 31, 2007 Nice report, Clampet, and the snapshots are welcome, too. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Posted January 31, 2007 Report Share Posted January 31, 2007 I guess Ellie May had a good time cleaning those perch!!! YEEEHAW!! Rob C Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steverowbotham Posted January 31, 2007 Report Share Posted January 31, 2007 My mom and dad bought me a fin-bore for my birthday, it is so nice, cuts like nothing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wuchikubo Posted January 31, 2007 Report Share Posted January 31, 2007 Do you find that in order to get that 2 arms in motion fast speed action, you sorta gotta hold the auger at a slight angle, thereby making the hole slanted? Hey Paul, good to see you got some feed to take home. As for the question above, I have a finnbore and to my knowledge all the holes I've drilled have been very straight. I kind of think that it would have to be straight in order to have both blades cutting properly. Initially it may seam to wobble but it does straighten out. Stan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chewy Posted February 1, 2007 Report Share Posted February 1, 2007 nice report but i dont understand why people keep smaal fish just to be greedy so they can have a fish meal .throw them back and keep the fish population growing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fishindevil Posted February 1, 2007 Report Share Posted February 1, 2007 well looks like you guys had alot of fun ...and a good catch of fish to boot....WTG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GbayGiant Posted February 1, 2007 Report Share Posted February 1, 2007 I think it's the large one's yer suppose ta throw back.The large females are the fish that have all the eggs. Mebbe I's rong, puleese set me right ifn I is. I wouldn't want to clean all those , but the odds of a jumbo having eggs is much greater, I cleaned some jumbos in November that were full of eggs ? Nice pics by the way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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