09-09-2021, 12:57 PM
(09-09-2021, 01:28 AM)perchinski Wrote: You'd be better off, Pat, launching at the Ross Creek ramp at the N end and working around that first bend to the S. Both smallies & perch in that bay a tad bigger than what you got. Same deal --- in or just outside the stick-ups in 5-7'. And I've found out the hard way over the last couple of years that the bigger/keeper perch will hit a 4" grub, specifically that 176 Yamamoto. Fish small bass stuff like the kuttail worm and you'll generally avoid the dinks. I used to do the slip-bobber thing and fish vertically with small ice fishing stuff, even with perch belly slivers.
No more. Small bass plastics fished slow, horizontal and on bottom.
Didn't know you could launch at Ross Creek. Is there a ramp? With my tube, motor and heavy battery I gotta be able to drive right up to my launch spot. No hiking.
If I am serious, I also use more of the larger stuff. But that area I fished yesterday has always produced perch on the smaller offerings. I did throw some larger perch colored tubes and caught fish on those. And one of the perch I filleted had a large chunk of plastic worm in it's gut. I have also caught a lot of perch on the larger plastics over the years. And I have caught some bodacious bass on small 2" plastic tubes. Just gotta have a good arsenal and keep offering different stuff until you find what they want.