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Perch on lures has been the target for the last few weeks and wow has it been manic.

First evening on a huge lake the weather got the better of the fishing. I chucked alsorts at them on the light Spro Passion rod, damn its a joy to use. Albeit better when the fish are more active. The first evening i managed one perch and a pike of around 5lb. Next evening the wind had dropped so i nipped back down there. They were feeding on the fry on arrival at 7:30pm, they were chasing the lures happily but few were striking. On went an orange spinner and boom. We’d found what they had wanted… i managed 8 perch to around a pound and a bit. Also caught another pike around the 4lb mark and then all hell broke loose on the spro rod with tiny sedona reel… i’d hit a powerful fish that went on a great run on such light kit. A few mins later and a trout around three and a half pounds hit the net. Pleased was an understatement as it confirmed the sedona’s clutch is spot on! Unfortunately the light levels had dropped and so had the takes.

Three days later and i revisited the same location, the day had been warm and the evening a little muggy and a tad overcast. Conditions looked great and it certainly proved to be perfect as the fishing began. First cast resulted in a Perch around a pound. Second cast another…. over the next hour 30 perch were landed and some monsters were also spotted. Same as before though as the light fell from the sky so did the Perch from the water. We’d hit the magic hour spot on, but come 9pm they retreated to the depths. The feeding was crazy they were churning up the water looking like piranhas attacking their prey. It was an awesome sight and one that i had never witnessed before on such a grand scale.

Will i be back down there for another go, damn right i will. I just hope i hit the weather and the timing right again… there is a definate feeding window and when the light starts to go its gameover.

Succesfull lures : Orange bladed spinner + Red spotted Spinner + Ondex. Kopyto Shads. The 2.5″ Pearl Kopyto’s were singling out the better fish on the day it went mental.

So I purchased some little 2″ white grubs and 4g jig heads last week, they were delivered quite promptly on saturday morning.  Many thanks to Ebay for the grubs and the Softbaitshop for the bargain jig heads!!!  

Last night i thought lets go try them out.  Headed down to my local perching hotspot and cast it in, let it sink and started bumping it along the bottom.  First retrieve resulted in no action, thought i’d try the same again and slow it down a tad – this time i received tiny pulls but no positive take was achieved.  Next cast all hell broke loose when lifting out to recast 3 perch all went for it at the same time!  It was as if this tiny grub had really wound them up, unfortunately the competition was too vast and none of these fish managed to take the grub.  

The next 30 mins was dead even after trying spinners it was not to be.  I thought one more try on the magic orange headed grub and low and behold i managed to land my first perch to a grub!     Happy days!  After this fish the action was dead for the following 30 minutes so i decided to call it a night .   I’ll definately give these another go though hopefully conditions will be a little more on my side.  

After just heading over to Sportfish to compile a shopping list for upcoming ventures look what i have just found… new spinners from Blue Fox – maker of some of the best built spinners on the market.  These will definately be added to my lure bag!  I’ll let you know how i get on…!

 New Vibrax Hot Pepper Spinners