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I went to Murray Friday with buddy, Harry, to fish the same spot that Uncle Remus and I caught perch last week. Weather was perfect, overcast with a slight chop on the water.
This is similar to the shots that Mark(EMC) posted last week, tons of fish and bait, none willing to bite our minnows or spoons. We did manage 3 nice perch and 1 lost crappie.
Just looking at the screen I figured we would load the boat. NOT!!
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Yea it's sad isn't it Ray. I mean you get all excited thinking okay any minute my rod is going down and nothing! Boy, do I know the feeling. Thanks for the pics Ray.
Ray, are you sure you are not in demo mode?
If that was what you were riding over then you was DEFINITELY on the perch. Guess they just werent hungry but I've never seen that before (that many fish and NONE biting). Best thing to do is keep moving and looking for biting fish. Better luck next time.
Never seen a perch that wasn't hungry.
Fished Murray for last 6weeks. Looks like the schools of striper we were on. Try herring with a few split shots. Couldn't even get it in the rod holder before we were hooked up. 4-6# fish. It took 6"-12" shad to catch the fish that were 8# and up. No lie, catching 8# striper on 12" shad. Those fish have been crazy aggressive. They just want something of size. Even the perch were eating the herring.
Well they were not interested in the little tuffies we were dangling in front of them. Last we we could not get a 2nd rod out before the 1st one went down. Got a couple of smaller stripers and cats to, but this time nothing. We are going to hit them again Wednesday. One of my buds just got a HDS7 like mine and he wants to go, so we'll see.
Good news is I got 7.9 ozs. of minnows left over from the 8 ozs. we bought Friday. :Rofl
No, but I accidentally did that one time years ago and about went crazy until I realized it was showing 30 FOW and I was at the Lake Murray dam in about 100 FOW. :hatchet:Quote:
Originally Posted by ScooperDude
Ray we had the same thing happen again today.
I have seen that before and experience it. I have no explanation for that.
Time to get our the dynamite!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Eatmorecrappie
I believe so
I've had very similar experiences with marking the fool out of fish and not catching! Like Butch said, I always crank up and idle around looking for another school that might be feeding. It's a wonder with as much bait as there is in the perch holes that they'll hit anything you drop down...Quote:
Originally Posted by SeaRay
One thing you might want to try that has helped me in the past is to use medium shiners instead of tuffies. Sometimes they seem like they like the bigger bait and I know they'll eat the larger stuff because I've seen what they have in the mouths when I pull them up...not to mention what's spit up in the cooler!
that's DuPont lures :biggrinQuote:
Originally Posted by SeaRay
M80s are cheaper