Crowley Perchin' 6/4 and 5/28
Been able to sneak away from work for a few hours the last two Wednesdays. Here is a short recap of what, when, and where.
5/28/14
We scoped out Leighton Springs & Green Banks - no weeds, no fish.
We found TONS of Perch to maybe 1.5lbs in Crooked Creek, in kinda deep on the right bank. We caught fish on various lures including the swimbaits & perch grubs by Sierra Slammers and Berkley 2" powergrubs. Darker colors like rootbeer, motoroil and pumpkinseed prevailed. We caught fish on plain, white and chartruese jigheads in 1/16oz and 1/32oz....the latter of which was probably the better of the two sizes.
We kept about 25 perch for tacos...released a ton of smaller fish.
6/4/14
Far less on the numbers side of things but waaaay better on quality. Our smallest of the day was near a pound with most of the fish hovering around the 1.5lb mark. The biggest in our group was 2.25lbs and the biggest on our boat was 1lbs 15oz...SLABS. While I did play around with some Sierra Slammers stuff, the Berkley Powergrubs were hard to beat....scent helped too oddly enough, something I've never seen make a difference before unless the crappie nibbles were involved. We kept 16 really nice fish for tacos and let the rest go.
Crooked Creek was pretty much barren on this day but we found fish from Leighton Springs on up towards the inlet....bigger feeding fish were on outside weed edges or beyond the weed edges or as deep as 12ft beyond the weedline. We also found some biting fish in shallow at 4ft but most of the fish we saw were spawning and had jockjaw. I prefer not to disturb them anyways once they're on a bed.
We checked out Green Banks...found some early week growth but no fish.
Its still a tad early but we're hoping by next week it's going to be just stupid wide open out there...I'm trying for a 3lber this year to weigh in for the derby.
Anyhow - I'll report again next week.
Cheers,
Smitty
