okay well im back. we caught, in 3 full days, 3 fish (boated). one, the first, we caught (we=my mother) 2 yellow perch on worms, working the bottom. real live worms, on 4 pound test line, snelled hooks, and 1/4 oz weight. one was fat and 10 inches long, the other was kinda skinny and was 10.5 inches long. all they were eating was snails and general bugs, from stomach contents.
we were in a boat, and on friday, the first day we were there, we went into a finger and i was working lilly pags and got a nice bite on a lizard, but he never came back after i tried to set the hook. on the 2nd day we didn't boat anything, except for one bass that i caught. he was 3 inches, i did take a pic of him. he hooked himself in the eye and gills, so i decided to take him back and release him where he could maybe have a chance at not getting eaten, which was back by a dock near the place we were staying. he was fine when i released him the next morning. sunday morning we went out super early to the place where we caught the perch, and had a ton of bites on worms, and we were boating tons of small perch on worms (the perch were >4 inches) so we were throwing them back, but they werent really staying right side up if ya know what i mean.
so basically, the only thing the fish wanted was worms. all i wanted were bass. all we caught were perch. it was a total skunk session. the lady in the drive up tackle shop in the marina said something about an alge bloom which was messing with the fishes normal feeding habits and that we needed really smelly bait, so take some powerbait and put it over the eye of the hook if ya go out there and are bottom fishing. also trolling turned up no good. the bass fishing tournament was quite agitating, because they were boating...
