Slow perchin 5/29

Got down to the lake front around 515 and fished till 630. My friend mike popped 2 nice size perch on his first 2 casts. So im thinking hell ya this is going to be a kick ass day. Think again people. Wrong. Only managed 2 more keepers throughout the morning. No one else was catching perch either. I only got 1 perch around 8 inches and the other 3 were between 8-10 inches which were caught by mike. Weather was perfect but the fish just were not cooperating. We will see what tommorow brings. Hopefully some nicer fish. Until then goodluck!!

Keith

Perching 5/25

Well being tired as hell i still decided to get up and go perching in the shitty ass conditions that chi town was experiencing. Got to the lake around 5 and fished till 830. Took home 17 keepers between me and my dad. All of my perch came on a Lucky Craft 65 pointer in the color mat pumpkin. It was deffinetly worth the 15 dollers too.

My dad got his perch to hit a paddle bug with a small jig head on it. The only picture i got was a picture of the perch that i caught in a bucket because i got my phone wet and it crapped out on me when i was fishing.

Perching da big pond 5/24 + Deep Lake

Well decided to hit up the big poind with my friend mike before i had baseball practice at 11. We origonally had planned to hit deep lake in the morning but i forgot all about practice so we decided to just do some perchin. Got to the lake around 515 and fished till about 830. Between the both of us we took home 17 perch all between 9-13 inches. The fishing picked up at about 6 and dies off around 7ish. After that we picked up fish here and there but nothing spectacular.

After i got done with practice we decided to try and hit deep for the evening bite. I got 1 dink bass about 10 inches and that was it. Mike got da skunk but he missed a monster bass that blew up on his frog and took him into some weeds. I also missed 2 blowups and had one on but i think i ripped it through its mouth as i was reeling it in cause i muscled it in. Anyways i got a few pics of the sunset that was there.

Perchin Day and Night 5/21

Well i decided to hit up the lakefront with my buddy mike. We arrived around 630 and fished till 820. On my first cast i got a hookup into a dink perch. At this point im like on they are atleast in. Mike ends up hooking into the 2 biggest catches of the morning. One that pushed 13 inches and one around 11.5. I had gotten 2 smaller ones around 9 inches.

I felt like going back for the evening bite and i did pretty good there with a few of my friends. We ended up taking somewhere around 20 perch but only took home 10. Got a nice fat 14 incher as well. All on minners. Sorry for thre bad picture as my friend has no idea how to snap a photo. And in the second pic u can see how crowded it was at the lake front.

Opeka 5/18

got to opeka around 2 and fished till 7. I went 4/5. I fished solo ill about 345 and i got all my fish before my friend creighton got there. I got 3 of my fish on traps and they were all around 2 pounds. Got my last fish on a senko. Fishkid got big fish of the day. A 3 pounder on a senko. He ended up the day 5/5. some of fish came on a craw along the bottom and he also got a few on a senko. Also 2 on his trap.

BIG FISH ^^^^^ ABOVE

doesnt look like it but its 3 pounds or more

late Delevan / Beck lake report 5/16- 5/17

Got out to Lake Delevan in wisconsin with my friend mike and his pal hank around 630. Im not even going to write a lot but here is a quick summary. We threw everything for bass from spinners to jigs to senkos wiht a big fat goose egg. Same with the crappie. It seemed like the bite was non existent. Mike had a follow up on his rattle trap. A snake pike it was. Didnt look like anyone had gotten anything really either. I also lost my 12 doller rattle n vibe that i abs. love. It outproduces all other traps.

After stopping at the Brat stop in ktown we made our minds up to try and redeem ourself by going to the harbors at night but we got the skunk there as well.

Well decided to go to beck lake the next day to try for some crappie. We got there around 615 and stayed till 815. We managed only a handful of keepers. If we had gotten there sooner im sure we would of cleaned up. I got the bous fish of the day. A pike that went about 22 inches on a small fathead minnow about 3 feet infront of me.

Quick Beck Lake report 5/14

got to beck around 330 and fished till 6. I got the big skunk today. Through everything at them. Traps, spinners, dt's, plastics, jigs. Couldn't get a hit. Saw some people catching slab crappies tho. Also the guys who were catching the crappie reported that they caught 3 northerns. All about 15-20 inches and on large roaches about 3 feet down. Lot of people out fishing today as well.

Independence grove/ lake opeka 5/6

Well got started fishing with my friends around 545 and within 20 minutes I hook what I thought was a monster bass but after about 5 seconds I knew it was a foul hooked carp. I got it in relatively quickly because I had 50# powerpro on. It was a beast im guessing 15+ pounds. So we keep working the shoreline and I pick up a dink 10 incher

About 30 minutes goes by and all of sudden I feel like I snagged a stump but it was coming in so I set the hook and I had a absolute pig on my line. To my surprise when I got it in to shore it had a monster crappie still in it's mouth and the crappie was still alive and kicking. Im very surprised he hit my lure when he already was stuffing his face. Sad to say but I don't think he will live because he wasn't really swimming well when I put him back in. Those bass tend to do that a lot and they kill themselves that way. It was aleast a nice 4 pounder. Maybe even 4.5 but 4 without a doubt.

Decided to hit a shore line that was very calm and about 10 minutes goes by and I slam a 2.5 pound bass. Also saw some guy bring up a healthy 4 pound eye near the same location on a crawler.

On our way back we decide to hit a local lake that is close to us. Don't forget it's now like 9pm. So I decide to rig up a topwater since I saw a lot of action a ig and I thought the water was pretty warm actually. So I didn't have any luck but my friend matt pulled up 2 pigs. One was about a 4.5# bass and the other a 2.5# bass. Both hit very close to shore where a runoff pipe was stationed.

Bait of choice today was a rat l trap in bluegill pattern. Also matt used a very shallow crank to get his fish.

Pictures will come tommorow once they are uploaded.

Thanks for reading,
Keith aka the rootpro!

Deep Lake Report 5/2 followed by mighty perching

Well i had some plans to go to deep lake before heading out of waukegan to go perching. Got on the water around 645 and stayed till about 1045. About 10 minutes into fishing i picked up a fat 12 inch bass on a rat l trap. Action was consistent today and most bass came on the deeper weed lines. Saw some nice fish cruising the shallows also. All the fish i got came one 1/4oz. blue/chrome rat l trap ripped through the weeds. My friend mike got his also on the same color rat l trap along with some fish hitting his sexy shad trap. Here are a few fish that i got!

We then packed it up and headed down the road to waukegan. We waited for a few friends to show up and we were off. Fishing for perch was very slow for the first 3 hours or so. We only had about 8 fish in the cooler between 6 of us. Then all of a sudden we all hooked up witha jumbo within 30 seconds and it was lock and load from there on. In a 45 minute span i would say we landed about 40 jumbo perch all ranging from 10-14.5 inches. All the other boats quickly picked this up and they were in on some action as well. Me and mike probably had out limits caught but we had to split all 47 fish between 6 of us. All in all it was a great day to be out. Weather couldnt have been any much better. Thanks for reading.

Keith

aka the rootpro