Tried my hand at white perch today. And although it was beautiful and warm off the water the river was windy and cold enough for me to wear my coat the whole time. I wasnt able to get bloodworms but did dig worms from the yard and went down to the bulkhead and scooped some grass shrimp.

Also had some gulp bloodworms and a bag of fishbites from croaker fishing. Did a lot of experimenting and came to this conclusion, gulp bloodworms are worthless for everything but catfish and the fishbites were no better. The perch wanted real bloodworms more than everything else and although I did catch 25 perch it was tough going. They prefered the grass shrimp over the garden worms but I did catch them on both. Really fun to go to another river and try my luck. On top of the 25 perch of which I kept only 5 I caught 6 cats to 27 inches. Pretty sure they were blue and flatheads. Check out this picture, the rail that its laying on is 8 inches wide, that thing almost stole my rod as I was jigging with another.


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