chibi
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On the evening of May 4, frozenfire and I went to Port Perry to try for some of those monster slabs that a lot of people have talked about. We arrived at about 9pm and started to cast off a public/government dock. We used a slow retrieve technique to entice strikes by the decent sized crappies.
Fishing:
We did very well. I believe we landed close to 50 fish among three fishers, with frozenfire accounting for most of them =). Although we were targeting crappies, we happened to catch onto out of season walleyes, rock bass, and blue gill. This isn’t bad considering it only took us half an hour to travel there! The crappies were tightly packed and travelled in obvious schools. Once one was landed, usually more would follow. It would be slow for some time before another school would move in. We left after 1am.
Equipment:
Ultralight set ups with small reels equipped with 4 lb test, slip floats, and 1.5" plastic tubes on jig heads.
The 3 walleyes were accidentally caught by frozenfire on the same ultralight setups used for panfish. They are actively feeding, even hitting 1.5 inch tubes, so this year should be a good one in terms of walleye.
Pictures: (sorry in advance if the photos are not too clear - it was difficult to get good shots after dark)
the view from the parking lot of the public/government dock
the view from where we fished majority of the night (straight walk from the parking lot, past the ship)
the view from behind (that looks straight onto the parking lot)
the view from the left
the next section we fished (the connected dock to the left of the ship)
one of frozenfire's walleyes that he immediately released afterwards
walking further down the dock
where frozenfire caught his walleyes
me holding our biggest crappies of the night; mine's 10" =)
Driving Directions:
Take highway 7 East until you reach Brock Road (hwy 1), then turn east on Goodwood Road (21). Keep going until it becomes hwy 7A, and continue on 7A until you hit Water Street. Turn North here. You will eventually come to the intersection where you’re at Queen Street to your left and a parking lot to your right. Park here, and fish off the dock with the large cruise ship.
Map:
On the evening of May 4, frozenfire and I went to Port Perry to try for some of those monster slabs that a lot of people have talked about. We arrived at about 9pm and started to cast off a public/government dock. We used a slow retrieve technique to entice strikes by the decent sized crappies.
Fishing:
We did very well. I believe we landed close to 50 fish among three fishers, with frozenfire accounting for most of them =). Although we were targeting crappies, we happened to catch onto out of season walleyes, rock bass, and blue gill. This isn’t bad considering it only took us half an hour to travel there! The crappies were tightly packed and travelled in obvious schools. Once one was landed, usually more would follow. It would be slow for some time before another school would move in. We left after 1am.
Equipment:
Ultralight set ups with small reels equipped with 4 lb test, slip floats, and 1.5" plastic tubes on jig heads.
The 3 walleyes were accidentally caught by frozenfire on the same ultralight setups used for panfish. They are actively feeding, even hitting 1.5 inch tubes, so this year should be a good one in terms of walleye.
Pictures: (sorry in advance if the photos are not too clear - it was difficult to get good shots after dark)
the view from the parking lot of the public/government dock
the view from where we fished majority of the night (straight walk from the parking lot, past the ship)
the view from behind (that looks straight onto the parking lot)
the view from the left
the next section we fished (the connected dock to the left of the ship)
one of frozenfire's walleyes that he immediately released afterwards
walking further down the dock
where frozenfire caught his walleyes
me holding our biggest crappies of the night; mine's 10" =)
Driving Directions:
Take highway 7 East until you reach Brock Road (hwy 1), then turn east on Goodwood Road (21). Keep going until it becomes hwy 7A, and continue on 7A until you hit Water Street. Turn North here. You will eventually come to the intersection where you’re at Queen Street to your left and a parking lot to your right. Park here, and fish off the dock with the large cruise ship.
Map:
