Cracker/Perch Today 12-19

My son and I got an early start on Christmas and hit a local reservoir today. We went in search of yellow perch and everything else. I'm going to include the perch here, because it appears the perch board has died. The water was 48° +/- and it was very windy. We found some perch in a cove (8-12 feet) and set anchor. Caught quite a few perch and threw many back. I think we kept 15.
My son decided to try worms and began catching shellcrackers. The odd thing was, they were all very nice. He caught about ten or so before I put a worm on. I caught a couple nice ones, but this was his day for crackers. We kept about 9-10 cracker/gills. We also caught some crappie for the mix.
I caught all my perch and the crappie on minnows and or jigs. All shellcracker caught on worms with one gill caught on a minnow. We also caught perch on the worms.

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Well, that second picture isn't supposed to be in there, but for some reason, I can't delete it. At any rate, it's a couple of the Virginia guys spider rigging on the Chickahominy. (They didn't catch any shellcrackers)

nice catch guys

Nice fish!

Good going!

Nice. Congrats.

That's a nice mess of fish,congrats.

Nice catch out there keep up the good work. How deep were the fish?

Nice mess of fish

Fatman

Good mess of fish, thanks for sharing...

Those are some nice ones good job

way to go les! can't beat that in the winter time.

Nice catch guys!!

Nice mess of fish guys!!! Way to go!!! :)

nice string 4 sure!