Wednesday, November 3, 2010

Fall perch story

I'm lovin' perchin' :) There are several reasons for that. In this sense perchin'- I think about fish size 2 lb plus. Catch this size perch on the lure requires a little luck and skills. But it is worth it. All fisheless days and times will be gone soon, when the other end of your line is pulled by a striped warrior.
So after two successfull perch expeditions earlier that week, we went on tour again. This time our goal was clear-catching specimen size perch on lure.
Our journey from East Coast towards Midlands took us about 1.5 hour. We stopped on the banks one of the best perch river in the country. Lures went into the river bed and...things began to happen very quickly :) During his first retrieve, Alex's rod was bent in the beatifull parabolas shape. It is another great day? 2 lber from the very first cast was a very good omen for the rest of the day. Every next cast was completed with perch, not the same size as the first, but Alex found the shoal.
First cast perch

My fishing was very slow. I couldn't match weight of jigheads witch lure size. While my coleague was taking 15th fish, in my account were only three lost lures an two baby perch. After 20 min of fruitless casting, I caught my first striped weighing over 1lb.
My 1st 1 lber that day

This time small shad lure worked perfect. Every cast resulted in a perch for me, and I began slowly approach magic 2lb mark. One more cast, slow retrieve and when my shad is close to shore is struck by a nice fish. Quick battle with few runs downstreams, produced 2.2lb in landing net. He must be old and experienced fish-it indicates the number of scars, jagged fins and missing one eye. Anyway it doesn't bother him to be reffered to as the real predator. Quick photo session and spiky warrior, just like all others, comes back safely to his kingdom.
The old 2.2 lber

10 min later, Alex landed a fish of the same lenght and weight. The story is repeated six times that day. We got 6 perch range 2.1-2.2lb, lots of 2lbers and 1.5lbers.We caught a total more than 150 fish. Happy days :)
According to the IFSC-irish specimen perch weight is 2.64 lb. We were so close. Maybe we can next time ;)
Perch in every cast
Pike attack
Another 2lber

No comments:

Post a Comment