White Perch Blitz By Dave Spendiff

Posted on May 3, 2019 by kelli

Yesterday morning I got up with a plan of running a few errands before doing some yard work…so much for a plan! It was foggy and warm and I had a bunch of killies at the dock. I also had a pressing need to feed 6 guys shore lunch in Canada for 5 days with tidal run white perch and only one frozen bag of 18 filets in the freezer – GO FISHING!
The bobber on the first cast barely settled on the water before it disappeared and so it went for about one hour and then it was OVER. The fish were cleaned and another 18 filets were put in the freezer. I ran my errands, did no yard work but fished again last night and this morning with only one small largemouth bass to show for the effort. Yesterday lagoon water temp. was 69 – 70 and this morning back down to 60 degrees!

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