Fishing with Tom and Carrie...8/30/2024

The last time out was for walleye, and today was for perch. Tom, Carrie, and I launched out of Catawba at 6:30, and started towards D Can, but had some really good marks just SE of E Can, so we stopped there, to start. 

To my dismay, when I opened my bait cooler, the minnows I was given were mostly Goldies with a few Emeralds.. (90/10), even though I asked, when I walked through the door this morning, "Do you have Emeralds, or are they a mix with Goldies?". I was told, enthusiastically, "They are all Emeralds", so I didn't question them, or look at them after they were scooped.

I'm not going to say where this was, because I'm not going to hurt anyone's business over this mistake, but I won't make that mistake again, and will look before I walk out of the store. I knew who had just Emeralds, but didn't go there...I will be going there in the morning, though.

Anyway, it wasn't a good morning for us, catching-wise, but we did have a nice time, on a nice day. It was a lot cooler out on the water, than it was on land, so we had that going for us on this very hot and humid day.

Unfortunately, we didn't even get close to a one person limit, even though we tried 6 spots, and all the spots had great "Lasagna marks" on the bottom and just above the bottom, and when we did catch, it was a nice fat yellow. We tried all kinds of rigs, too.

We caught a few sheephead, one kitty, and handful of white perch, also. So, we did catch some fish...just not the kind of perch fishing I'm craving.

Tom and Carrie, both said they had good time anyway, and that makes me a little happier. ;)

Tomorrow's crew wants to target perch too, and I gave them my results from today, and they still want to go and see what we can do, so launch time will depend on if there are any storms going through in the morning, like they are forecasting.

Stay tuned....

Capt Juls