Deer Creek 11/22/24

[Freakyfisherman]

Went on a solo trip looking for Walleye and Perch today.
Started at 9:30’ish and used bb’s with one floating harness on one side of boat and silver blade on other side, both were adorned with half a crawler each.
Surface temp 47.7F.
I bounced, and bounced, then bounced some more.
Then I used lead head jigs to no avail.
After 3 hrs or so I switched to death rolling half a crawler between .9-1.1 mph.
Then it was game on…..
But all trout, and lots of them. Sometimes two at a time.
Did that for about 1 hr. till sick of that.
Was about 1:30 now, and planned to leave around 2:30.
Had poles all over my boat so put away all my bb’ing poles and the slow death rigs.
A slight breeze pushed me out of my 15-25’ zone as I cleaned up.
I fired up big motor to go give a distant shoreline my last hour.
I put big motor in gear and was in 51’ fow about to lay the hammer down when I caught a Perchy looking school on the fish tv.
I immediately killed motor and anchored over them.
I sent down a plain jig head on one pole and a Kastmaster on other, both wearing 1/2” crawler.
Very small bites but they were there.
In next hour and fifteen minutes caught maybe 8-9 Perch and probably 6 more Bows while lowering jigs.
Bites were extremely light and tough to set.
Actually had to drop jigs straight down and fast as possible to bypass trout.
7-8”ers and some up to 11”.
Even the 7”ers were filletable due to girth.
Probably my last trip, have to have knees replaced starting with first one mid Dec.
Sadly, struck out bad on the Eyes….. 

I hit Deer creek looking for eyes about a month ago. I wanted to vertically fish them, but the wind was just enough to keep me from doing so. I did, however, manage to have a few mystery hits that I'm pretty sure were walleye, but that is a guess since I did not hook or land anything that outing. You know, those bites that make you say, what was that? My buddy was catching them deep, about 40 to 50 ft. So I wanted to duplicated what he was doing, but I had to settle for pop jigging a powerbait minnow in those same depths. If you make it out again, try deep and even if you dont mark anything on bottom, they may be hugging it so tight, sonar wont pick them up. Also, find the transition from rock to soft bottom. 
Gabe