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| Any one been picking up some perch. I am a novice looking for advice on how to catch them and where on the west shore. Also can anyone tell me what dead sticking is? |
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Location: Orland Park, IL | Been havin some good luck on the east side, out of fishermans. Look for the boats, of course. Bring the window weight for poundin the bottom.
A couple of split shots, a gold hook, and a piece of crawler will work. Measure the distance from the split shots at the top of the water to the tip of the rod when place horizontally on the boat. Eyeball it. Then drop overboard till rig hits bottom, reel down to water, and place in rodholder. You should be a few inches off bottom. Then pound the bottom with the window weight every few minutes.
VIOLA! Perch.
Well, seems to work for me ok. Neighbor in pipe showed me this method. |
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| what exactly is a window weight? |
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| Not sure either what a window weight is either, but basically any good size weight that will stir up the bottom will work. Perch come in thinking their is food there and eat your bait. I use a spare anchor |
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Location: Orland Park, IL | Its an old school lead. Looks like 8 inch piece of sauseege and weight about 5 lbs or so. They used to be on ropes in the old window casings. Got a nice loop on the end for the rope. |
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Location: Neenah, WI | We've been doing pretty good on the west dhore out from Paynes Point. It varies from time to time but 9-14' of water has been good. Just a hook and splitshot with a small piece of crawler works. Too bumpy yesterday and today for us though. |
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