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Actually, we were targeting small mouth. Caught a couple of perch that we let go and 8 or 10 small smallmouth. Was moving to a place that I really like and was going slow watching my sonar. It showed me something that I ought to try to catch so we settled in for an hour two catching perch after perch. No idea how many we caught but came home with plenty for a few meals.

I am not really set up for perch but last week the wife and I caught a bunch of them drop-shotting Sniper Snubs so that is what we used, again, only this time I was with my step-daughter. Did not take long to figure out that we had to cut the snubs in half to actually be able to land most of the fish. After that, it was like fishing in a barrel. I used my Terrova "Anchor" to hold me in place over the cloud and my step daughter got bored of catching fish so she kicked back and soaked in some sun while I kept fishing.

While filleting the fish out, one of them had 8 chunks of a Sniper Snub in his gut, and, two pieces of a green plastic, maybe parts of a Roboworm or something? I could not believe it. There were big pieces, little pieces, pieces the size of which we were not even using, lol. I think there was more pieces in there than we even lost all day, and yet this one fish had all of them. Did not see any in any of the other fish.

Pic is of my step daughter with her 1st fish of the day. The fish picture is only a portion of what we kept, there were a few more:)

RiverDog

8/12/2012 8:36:00 PM

That's a nice mess of perch. It's a bit worrisome to see so much incredible inedible in one fish! This can't be a good thing.

G-Man

8/12/2012 9:06:00 PM

Fish fry! I love to seeing that kind of return on the sonar!

rockjiggr

8/13/2012 12:26:00 AM

So thats where all my worms went. I hit up the perch there on Friday. Same deal, marked a cloud at about 30' and it was fish after fish for over an hour.

arniejl

8/13/2012 8:03:00 PM

rockjiggr, you mention early in the year that you were catching perch that day we seen you out there. That helped lead me to try for them. The smallie fishing has been tough for me, lately, in Summit, so it is nice to turn to the perch. That was a lot of fun but I am done, I think, for this year on the perch. We have enough for 4 or 5 meals out of the last two trips. Time to turn back to the bass.

walter.hall2

8/14/2012 1:59:00 PM

I have never fished summit, but am thinking about it. I have a bassboat but only use a trolling motor to get around. Any tips on where the SMB are located?

rockjiggr

8/14/2012 9:46:00 PM

You will absolutely find SMB around the docks. Expect lots of small ones in the 6-10 inch range there. The good news is the entire lake is ringed with homes with docks so you really can't miss. If you want the bigger ones, hit it really early (sun-up) or fish the deeper drop offs in 25-50 feet. The perch seem to like the 20-35 foot range right now, but then again I didnt really work the weeds so I am not sure if they might be in there too.

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