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 Member Posts: 2680 Location: Essexville, MI./Saginaw Bay. | Just got back from one ½ day and 2 full days fishing Lake Simcoe Canada. I was invited by a good friend to fish and base from the Indian reservation portion of Georgian Island actually out in Lake Simcoe. The fishing and the weather were mixed and to a large part determined our success on each day, with a few unexpected curve balls one would not expect during these weather interludes. We arrived Tuesday late morning to winds at a sustained 20 MPH and gusting to 35 at times. We fished roughly 2 miles West of Georgina for about 3 hours and had nothing but small to tiny perch in the hole constantly. My bud Ray (Board name "Rayed") who likes to move around a lot, managed to catch the most keepers that first day and found us a likely spot for the following day, before we called her quits. Wednesday morning started with dead calm winds, and we fished where Ray had found some bigger perch the day before. Using lures baited with LurJenson Red Rubber Annis Eggs, I almost immediately had six 8 to 10 inchers on the ice. And a couple of them (from being hauled up from deep water) spit up small Sculpin they had recently eaten off the bottom. They also spit up some fresh water shrimp and Zebra Mussle of pretty good size. With this type of constant pleantiful diet, I can see why the perch in this Lake grow both fast and to gigantic sizes. Anyway, I took one of the Sculpin that was actually still alive and only half way in the perches mouth, and hooked it on my Nils Jig and started jigging with it. The next 3 perch I iced were the nicest perch I've caught since the Late 60's/early 70's, when Saginaw Bay was also famous for its perch quantity and size. To get an idea of their size I took a picture of one next to my size 14 EE Rocky 1000 denier Pac boot. The boot is a hair over 14 inches long. By late morning the fish had become fewer and really finicky. So I went with tiny Jigs and Tear drops baited with Wax Worms and fished each fish individually as it came into the hole. I started to Pencil grip the rods, like you would for Crappie or Bluegills, as the bites (even from the bigger fish) were almost microscopic to the touch. Ray was geared up for and was eager to get over to the White Fish and Lake Trout grounds only 1 mile South of this location, as he had many pounds of perch in his freezer from 2 previous trips already this winter to Simcoe. The success rate for the Whites and Lakers had gone way up the last week or so at Simcoe, and with only the one 4 wheeler we doubled up on for this trip, he left me with the shanty at this spot and he headed over to start fishing for the exotics. This actually suited both of our fishing styles, as I like to set up stakes, relax and let the fish come to me. Whereas Ray, can't/won't stay in one spot perching more than 10 minutes, unless he's catching fish at a decent pace. Both techniques can and will at times pay bigger dividends than the other, given the moods and movement patterns of the fish for that day. To shorten the story, I flopped #50 (my one day limit) on the ice at 5:40 PM, as Ray arrived to pick me up and head in. He had caught 1 nice White fish of about 6pounds and a twin Laker of the same size. Satisfied with my results for Wednesday, I asked Ray to drop me off at the same 2 holes for Thursdays fishing, before he headed out for more Whites and Lakers. Even though the morning was colder and winds more calm than Wednesday, the perch were moving around even less and were really touchy. If and when one came in, I could not even move my offerings without spooking them out of the hole. I got more bites by simply letting the jig and wax worm hang motionless and watch for the slightest movement of the rod tip. I only had about 15 perch by noon and called Ray on the Cell to check in with him. He had caught about an 8 pound Laker early and was also getting ready to pack it in and get home early, but wanted to try a few different spots first. I told him I'd leave my Cell on, and to call me when he was pulling stakes and I'd be ready to go when he got there. Well, by 2:00 PM the wind started to build up fast and My phone had not rung, so I called Ray's Cell back. He told me to get ready to be picked up and fish till dark where he was. He had found a spot out deep where his White Fish/Laker "Tip Down Rods" baited with minnows on small #12 trebles, were catching some real monster Perch instead of their intended prey. This spot was out in deeper water, South of Thorah Island and near the 17' finger close to the Woodsmans Shoal. Well, he was right. The perch we caught in this spot were nothing but awesome. None were males and none under 11 inches. In fact 10 of the bunch were over 13 inches. The only down side was what the weather did after I joined ray at this spot. The brisk wind had suddenly turned into typhoon strength (I'm guessing 35 MPH sustained with higher gusts) along with heavy/wet snow squalls combined with the white out conditions, yet these Giant perch kept coming into the hole one by lonely one at a steady pace. Finally, only the prospect of having to deal with both the white out and the darkness made us head for the barn. We ended up staying on the Island one more night for safety sake, as the storm got even more fierce during the night. But that apocalyptic view of Lake Simcoe from the back of Ray's 4 wheeler coming in that night, and of what Mother Nature is capable of along with the picture of that last nights catch spread out on the cleaning table, will forever be burned into my mind and one of many trips memory I'll take to the grave with me. 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New User Posts: 2 | VN Perch. I always wanted to do a Winter trip to Lk. Simcoe. They do seem to be coming back on the Sag bay. We caught some nice ones near Augres, this past Fall. They were running 8-11 inches with a few as big as 12-1/2 and very few under the 8 inch mark. Attachments ---------------- DSCN0730.jpg (68KB - 80 downloads) DSCN0731.jpg (51KB - 77 downloads) | ||
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