After weeks and weeks of working way past late, I decided to take Friday afternoon off and hit a local lake.

Finding Minnows has been tough the last couple of weeks. Many of the suppliers are having issues keeping them alive prior to delivery. When they are delivered, they are dying so fast that the shops are throwing away more than they sell. It just isn't worth it to them. I was able to go to a very small shop I use and they had minnows.

I have been using plastics the last month and doing well however I really wanted some live bait. I have caught some decent perch in one lake that I fish (but not in large numbers) and wanted to see if I could get a few. I did catch a couple crappies (again on plastics) but the below perch was 10 inches. I caught another one that was 11 and the last one I caught (right at dark) was 12 inches.
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I took a run down to Detroit on Saturday to chase some perch around. In the end, the perch were a bust (should have went south). I did however catch a pretty cool outboard motor race at Elizabeth park. Also jigged a couple walleyes. Even got my buddy into some sheepheads on light tackle. Man do those boys take a run after you hook em. I shut my phone off as I was real close to Canada and my phone kept bouncing off from one of the Queen's towers. No pics from this trip.