Bb 9/3

[Shady]

Had a good day on the water today with well over a dozen stripers caught. Even though most of them were baby's, I still had a good time. I started off fishing the pier off of Hemmingways in search of some Big Perch, but only caught small ones and bluefish and Stripers too. I was using my ultra light Perch rod, so when I hooked a 13" Striper, it was a pretty good little fight. I finally made my way out to the Bridge and found a couple of keeper Stripers at 21 and 19 inches in shallow water on the east bound span. The 21 incher even pulled the yak a little. The other cool thing was that these fish were caught within minutes of each other. However, after the second one I worked all the way out to about 16' on the westbound span and didnt find even another nibble only a couple of rebar fish that wouldn't let go.
By about 10am the tide was trying to turn around and the wind was working against it so there were some pretty good rollers going on. So, I decided to head inland and was about to call it a day, but found it to be tolerable on the eastern shore and so i kept at it. I headed south a bit and found a good spot with nice Perch 10-11.5 inches. I caught about 15 and invited 9 nice ones home for a new home in the freezer. I also caught a few more baby stripers. It seems like the baby Stripers are everywhere hopefully thats a good sign for the future.

[Shield]

Looks like you had a pretty good day. Nice catch.
Don

[kayak456]

if u are after 10+ inch perch,home to tollys.every single time we go there next to the green marker we get 0ver 100 perch and 70 percent of them are over 10 inches.alsl ill have 2 on while my dad has 2 on so 4 perch every 30 seconds.its non stop there

[Shady]

kayak456,
Thanks for the tip, but I like shallow water ultra light tackle jigging for Perch and I usually can find nice ones. I'm guessing that you were bottom fishing is you were catching two at a time. I've never been able to have much success with this technique for Perch, maybe I just need more practice...

[medicyaker]

NICE CATCH!!! Let me know when you go out again. I need to learn how to catch fish like that in the bay. Any chance you may want to go out again monday morning or afternoon? I went out this morning and surprise NO FISH!!! LOL

[Shady]

Most of the striper that I've caught at the bay bridge have come on 3" gulp alive minnows on a small jig with spinner arm in shallow water. I havn't figured out how to catch them as well in deeper water on bigger jigs. I may not have the feel down right quite yet. I may not have a permission slip for tomorrow since I went out yesterday and today. The biggest tip I can give you is don't overlook the shallow pilings if you can't catch them in the deeper. However I think shallower water is better first thing in the morning or later in the evening. I think as water temps go down they will stay in shallow water longer.