Jumbo Perchin on Bay of Quinte

[Mako]

Date: Jan. 4th 2010

Location: Belleville Area

Time: 1:30-3:30

Ice Thickness: 10 inches

 

So I finally had some time to get out on the ice, well sorta of I only had two hours, but its better than nothing. Headed out to a spot that we had good luck with last season when going for perch...got to love GPSs. I was on my own, so dragging the 2 man Frabill was a bit of a cardo workout.

 

I didn't have time to get minnows so I just used some Gulp with a jigging rap and some more on a swedish pimple. First fish was a dink then 10 mins later I had on a jumbo which I lost at the hole. I had some more taps then nothing for another 10mins when I landed the first jumbo which was 11 inches.

 

The school must of been passing my hole every 10 mins becuase it would go off like clockwork. I'm glad I had the strike indicator on becuase even the big ones where just making it move slightly.

 

In the end I landed about 20 fish in 2 hours with 7 being in the 11inch range, all were released, not bad for mid day and no minnows on the BOQ.

 

The next outing will be a all day event and some of those tasty buggers will be coming home

 

Sitting on 10 inches

 

One of many 11 inch Jumbos

 

Strike Indicator

 

Lures of the day

 

The Setup

 

Cheers,

aRon

 

[EC1]

Awesome report, thanks for sharing!

I love the colours on the last picture you have!

 

By the way, I was wondering what you did do to install your strike indicator. I see two pieces of foam(?) attaching it? And where did you get it?

[Joeytier]

I use that exact colour swedish pimple for the perch on BOQ. Nice going.

[johnnyb]

Great report Ron...thanks for sharing what works for you

[Fang]

I just installed a few indicators on my perch rods. Fastened them using a 3-4" piece of heak shrink tube from CTC. Just make sure you get the proper size to get over the end guide. In fact CTC sells a 2 pack of bite indicators with different colored ends so had to pick up a couple more as back up. The 2 pack comes with 2 - 1" pieces of shrink tube I think you need more to get a good join.

[Mako]

Thanks.

 

I picked up the strike indicators at Fishing Depot in Toronto about 2 years ago. The black pieces are just rubber blocks with a slit in them, they install in snap and really help with the light bite. Normally your looking for the rod tip to be pulled down but with this your looking for he bead to go up.

 

The shrink tube ones sound interesting.

 

aRon

 

 

[Leecher]

Great report and pics Mako

A well deserved couple hours on the hard stuff

Thanks for sharing

Leechman

[perchslayer666]

Nice work. I consider BOQ perch tops in Ontario, it's great because the Walleye snobs don't care for them, and most of the time you are the only ones in the perch grounds.....

[limeyangler]

Great report, weird how fish are so predictable, even weirder is how predictable it is that they stop being predictable....lol.