pre spawn yp 2/10

[donkey fish]

im planing to do some pre spawn yellow perch fishing sunday on the magothy if any one wants to join. i have bin dong fairly well from shore this week with a handful of keepers each day but i would like to be able to fish more water in hopes of finding some bigger ones for a fish fry.

[echo5oscar]

Where do you launch from?

[donkey fish]

beachwood park not the best launch place or at my buddy's house

[Shady]

no perch for me today, but did get into some pickerel at beachwood. There were a lot of shore fisherman catching nothing. Were you there? Saw someone had a yak in their pickup bed.

[donkey fish]

that was me. i dident go out in the yak was to much skim ice

[J.A. Veil]

that was me. i dident go out in the yak was to much skim ice

The skim ice on the Severn was much more of an issue yesterday than I expected. I launched from Jonas Green at 1:00. I assumed that with the sun out all morning much of the ice would be melted -- not so. I visited a tributary where I had fished a few days ago. On that cold day, the tributary was about 90% clear. Today, it was the opposite -- 90% covered. I worked a few narrow stretches of open water, and needed to ice-break through 100 ft to get to the next open patch. The breeze moved me faster than I wanted. Over the next 90 mins, some of the ice melted away leaving about 60% ice cover. I was able to gain access to a few more spots where I expected to find pickerel, and eventually caught 4 of them and had a few stolen minnows on other casts. But the cool air and breeze were relentless -- my hands got too cold, so I packed it in. Given the conditions, I was not disappointed with 4 pickerel.