I see that they were 11-13", but was there any size to them or were they skinny plants

they were pretty good size

I fished upper Caliche on the 5th of March. I fished for an hour or so in the afternoon and caught my limit of healthy, but slender Bow's to the left of the boat launch ,using Rainbow glitter Turbo power bait. I set up my slipsinker rig with a 3 lb leader,24' long and a #16 treble hook. The wind was blowing from the west, and the fish hit light. All of my fish were lip hooked. An Old geezer drifting a crawler 3 ft. under a slip float got two fish. Later on while checking out the action at Burke Lake's west end, an old guy named Jim caught a very fat 19" Bow off the Public access dock with 3 white mallows and a 1/2 crawler. Three other guys using bobbers were fishing up in the shallow slough to the west, and they were catching some nice fish on worms. The day ended up beautiful and warm, for a while anyway. I finished the day by taking a dozen or so 8 to 9" perch up at the Rd. 5 canal on Winchester wasteway by drifting a 1/32 oz jig head and worm. All of my fish were caght within 30 feet of the south side of the bridge. The Jigmiester