Report:Perch revisited

[SeaRay]

I had not been perch jerking in quite some time, so when my golf buddy, Jeff, asked me to go this morning I jumped at the chance. Jeff prefers jigging spoons over live bait so we planned to vertical jig over schools if we could find some.
I tied up a two jig rig with a weight on the bottom and used it instead of the spoon.
I had a Rooty Tooty 309 on the top loop and a Shad Dart that I forgot I had on the bottom. I think Ronnie(Stumphunter) had given it to me and it looked so good I wondered why I had not used it before, except that I forgot I had it. It was green and black with a chartreuse tail. Notice I said "had".
Both jigs produced about equally and we kept about 12 to 15 nice perch and threw back several small ones. We did keep some of the really small ones and put them on catfish rigs but nothing doing on the Cats today.
Reason I said had was that I got a really hard bite and when I pulled in a nice perch the top jig was the only one left on the line. We think I had two hit at once and the line broke between the two jigs.
This one came on the RT309.


This one came on the Dart before it departed. Ronnie, if you recognize it as one of yours I like a dozen if you have then tied up. Also got to restock my RT309s. Got a couple of friends who want some.


The wind blew all morning, making the weather pleasant, but a pain for Jeff to hold the boat in place. We quit at noon and Jeff had a nice mess to add to a fish fry for his Church group later in the week.
Water Temp was 82 degrees.
We put in at Shull Island and fished the river edges in 30 FOW at the mouth of Hollow Creek and Bear Creek.