10-08-2020, 10:18 PM
Sounds like you found them at the same depth as we did a week ago and the water temp is still about the same. I'll have to look at my journal to see when we started catching the perch last year but it seems like it was later in Oct if not Nov for us last year. We did see a lot of dead or dying baby shad last week, maybe the first wave of those that will soon be dying with the coming cold front. I did talk to the Willard park manager a week ago, about that clogging fish cleaning station, he said they had just replaced the one at the North marina a year or so before they replaced the one at the South end. I guess from what he said, they came out with the new and improved model they put in at the South marina the year after they replaced the one on the North end. That means they have to wait for a number of years now, before they request a new one. 
As you can imagine, he said the problem is with those folks not smart enough to turn on the grinder, before they stuff fish remains into it. He said they even put signs up telling people to turn it on first but few people paid any attention. I was mainly calling him to ask about the new pond at the North end, they plan on letting it fill this Winter, then stocking it with pan fish in the early Spring, hopefully before the fish spawn. There will even be a place to launch your PWC, if that is of any interest to you.
As you can imagine, he said the problem is with those folks not smart enough to turn on the grinder, before they stuff fish remains into it. He said they even put signs up telling people to turn it on first but few people paid any attention. I was mainly calling him to ask about the new pond at the North end, they plan on letting it fill this Winter, then stocking it with pan fish in the early Spring, hopefully before the fish spawn. There will even be a place to launch your PWC, if that is of any interest to you.