Launched out of Crystal Beach and headed for the "flotilla" of boats on the horizon.
We'd heard it was "ON" all week and hoped the blue bird sky's and fairly choppy conditions weren't going to turn them off the day we can get out.
After watching every boat around us yank up perch cast after cast and not getting anything we asked a fellow fisher what the heck we were doing wrong.
He showed us how small a minnow they were biting on and realising that 75% of the minnows we had were too big.
We decided to go about 250 yards further west to the second big flotilla of boats and start fresh.
We down sized minnows and I cut some Berkley power baits down to size to try and conserve minnows.
5 minutes in the new spot and I had the first 2 in the boat, double header on my line!
We landed about 16 including some jumbos with the biggest at 13-1/2".
Quinten had an absolute brute on and in the excitement horsed it up from 63' of water too hard and straightened out the fine wire hook on his pickerel ring losing it just deep enough that we couldn't see how big it really was....damn.
We learned quite a bit talking with other boaters in the crowded area.
-go with 6-8lb braid (we were running floruo).
-super light action rods are a must for the light bite.
-come with at least 150 minnows between 1" and 2" with some larger just in case the bite changes.
All in all a decent day, first "raccoon" tan of the year courtesy of the bright sun and SKL sunglasses.
The 16 fish actually filleted up in to a nice fish fry when we got back.
Hoping the winds stay down and we get another shot at them next weekend.
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