Hammering the perch on Houghton Lake
Spent the weekend with my family up at Houghton Lake. We have a park model mobilehome in a condo association park about 1/4 mile off the lake. Great place to spend a weekend, no snow to shovel, no grass to cut, just pull in turn on the water turn up the heat and enjoy. The park is located right on the main snowmobile trail head so it’s also a great place to come to ride. Anybody interested, there are a few places for sale in the park.
Now on to the perch fishing. My son and I grabbed some wax worms and headed out yesterday to try our luck for some bluegills on the lake. We fished right across the street from the Party Time party store. Short walk out to a bunch of shanties and we even found a couple holes left from the last folks, so no drilling holes needed. The water there was about 6 feet deep and only some short weed growth at the bottom. In short order both my son and I were hauling up perch affter perch. No doubt we must have caught nearly 50 in an hour. OK, now here’s the catch, if we had kept them all and put them nose to tail on the ice all 50 together might have measured 15 inches. Man I mean some of those fish were only 2″ long!! We both caught a few that were so young they hadn’t even gotten all their stripes. The good thing was they were all lightly hooked and released to swim another day, and hopefully grow up !! We didn’t see anyone pulling up anything else but small perch, not a tip up flag all day.
Posted: January 18th, 2010.