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Post by hambone on Jul 20, 2018 8:17:12 GMT -5
The wife and I are in the back of bull run right now in front of ski course, we are flat wearing them out, probably boated 30 in the past 30 min or so, red wigglers and gulp minnows on drop shot is the ticket this morning, catching more big fish on gulps
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Post by medicineman on Jul 21, 2018 8:41:54 GMT -5
Anyone on them this morning ?
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Post by hambone on Jul 21, 2018 8:44:45 GMT -5
My old man and me are, had to search hard for them but we found a school in bull run, probably caught 25 so far
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Post by medicineman on Jul 21, 2018 8:57:19 GMT -5
We are in bull run right now where are you exactly.
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Post by medicineman on Jul 21, 2018 8:58:53 GMT -5
Or what kind of boat are you in
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Post by hambone on Jul 21, 2018 9:04:37 GMT -5
We are to the right as you start in bull run, near where this new housing development is going in at, in a white cc hydra sport
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Post by greywalls on Jul 21, 2018 19:03:56 GMT -5
Man, I LOVE hearing the real time chatter!
Wish I was up there today, but kiddos were at an all-day swim meet here in L-burg. Ugggh.
I've GOTTA learn how to catch these buggers, though. My 7.5yr old son is obsessed with looking for orange pool noodles deployed and also making sure that we have one in the boat for, you know, "when we get on some good schools and need to let the forum guys know." About a year and a half ago, the little man became flat out **infatuated** with all things fishing after having some success trout fishing with me and bass fishing with my father.... Outside of school and swim team, he lives and breathes fishing -- I'm talking 100s and 100s of hours watching every youtube fishing-related snippet he can get his hands on. While I'm getting ready to leave for the office in the mornings (EVERY morning), he's asking me about drop shotting, wacky rigs, catch-two-and-quit for stripers, knots, brands of braid, fish finder settings, SML houses he'll buy when he wins lotto, shad and bait, stripers vs. smallmouth vs. perch vs. catfish vs. spanish mackerel, HUK shirts, Simms hats, tackle boxes, Nitro vs. Ranger vs. "bay boats", brands of lures, etc., etc., etc. times TEN! Caught his first striper earlier this year and is hooked on SML beyond words, for sure. My father in law gave him some "fishing money" to use a few weeks ago, and Mason took it to a local tackle shop and came home with his own prepared selections: a Lucky Craft Sammy (american shad color), 4 broken-back Thunder Sticks (blue-back chrome, black-back chrome, bone and pink-back chrome), a Yo-Zuri crystal minnow (blue silver), a KVD Sexy Dawg (Sexy Shad), two black and blue buzzbaits, a Chatterbait Project Z, and some Zoom trailers and watermelon Flukes. Not a bad eye for a kiddo!
In any event, I really want, at least once this summer, to put him on an awesome white perch bite, as I think he might implode from the excitement and pride. He caught a nearly-citation yellow perch / ring perch several weeks ago, which thrilled him -- partly because he believed it to be a peacock bass missing its spots... We're so fortunate to have a fishery like SML only 45mins away, and I need to figure out the white perch. Been out twice for them without any luck.
We went out last Sunday, noon to 6pm, for white perch, putting in at state park and running down to vista point. Slowly scanned EVERY sq yd of shoreline / coves from Anthony Ford to the dam and from dam to Cedar Keys and Witcher area, then back out following the shoreline all the way to Mitchell's in Craddock. Several miles and several hours, and didn't even wet a line other than 30mins of bass fishing around docks.
For a so-called nuisance fish, these white perch have proved to be more elusive (at least to us) than stripers and largemouth! We'll connect with them at some point hopefully.
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Post by johnr on Jul 22, 2018 9:50:03 GMT -5
You were looking in the right spots. We have been catching a bunch all along that same search path all summer. Lots of times you can’t “see” them on the sonar, and that’s been especially true in a lot of the places you looked. They like to lay right on the bottom for some reason through there.
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Post by hambone on Jul 22, 2018 10:48:32 GMT -5
I have better luck finding perch by looking for bait... if I can find a cove with schools of bait I fish it, more times than not there will be some perch mixed in, especially if you find schools of big gizzards... and like John said they like to hug the bottom a lot, I noticed a lot of the fish we caught yesterday had like mud stains on their bellies, and what we was catching mostly was right at or near the bottom. Wouldn’t waste my time looking places where there is a lot of boat traffic either, don’t think they like that. Also found that 3” Gulp minnows(smelt and watermelon pearl color) work extremely well, maybe even better than worms.
Another very productive way of catching these things is light hopping at night. Wait till about an hour or so after dark and start hitting dock lights, just put a gulp minnow or live minnow on a hook, no weight and cast over into light, you can fill cooler pretty quick this way.
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Post by Red Bear on Jul 23, 2018 11:30:18 GMT -5
check the cove(s) in craddock creek back by mariners landing(which has added an official no wake buoy this year, though i feel it should start closer to the mouth of the cove). go in there about an hour before sunset, as you enter the no wake zone look ahead to the point across from the ML docks with the big white no wake sign and some downed trees with a couple docks to the right. white perch are there 99 percent of the time every evening i have ever fished there(out in front of those trees and two docks.) they hit worms almost as soon as they hit the water on the fall. this cove is also usually loaded with alewives at night so theres lots of bait in there for them, i caught 80 in two net throws back on july 4th weekend, and i dont throw perfect pancakes, my net throws are shaped more like puzzle pieces LOL...
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Post by piper on Jul 24, 2018 12:10:59 GMT -5
check the cove(s) in craddock creek back by mariners landing(which has added an official no wake buoy this year, though i feel it should start closer to the mouth of the cove). go in there about an hour before sunset, as you enter the no wake zone look ahead to the point across from the ML docks with the big white no wake sign and some downed trees with a couple docks to the right. white perch are there 99 percent of the time every evening i have ever fished there(out in front of those trees and two docks.) they hit worms almost as soon as they hit the water on the fall. this cove is also usually loaded with alewives at night so theres lots of bait in there for them, i caught 80 in two net throws back on july 4th weekend, and i dont throw perfect pancakes, my net throws are shaped more like puzzle pieces LOL... +1000 on this advice...same experience for me as well |
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Post by quackquackboom on Aug 31, 2018 13:25:59 GMT -5
Any of these schools on the upper black water? Or is lower lake the place to be?
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Post by tiltntrim on Aug 31, 2018 13:29:05 GMT -5
On the Roanoke side, most are found at Betty's/Becky's and below toward the dam.
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Post by johnr on Aug 31, 2018 14:03:38 GMT -5
There’s some on the upper blackwater but generally it’s too murky. Gills creek and downstream is where to look.
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Post by mwardncsu on Aug 31, 2018 19:58:37 GMT -5
I know in years past they had been caught in the Summer in decent numbers around the Moormans area by putting cut ales on the bottom - not sure if it was a dry summer and thus more clarity in that stretch or not..... Haven't had a chance to wet a line all summer so I'm not even sure what a fishing hook looks like anymore myself.....  |
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