Last week I made a post about the various styles of spinners I have used to catch perch in the Severn. Today I spent 3 hours in two Severn tributaries testing out 4 styles of spinners. I used the Bignose single blade spinner as my control -- I have consistently caught with this lure, and today was no exception. Once I found perch in some of my preferred shoreline spots with that lure, I switched to other rods having the yet untested lures and cast to the same areas. Two of the lures did not perform nearly as well as the control, but one of them (the beetle spin style spinner made by Grady Black) caught well overall and landed the largest perch of the day (and my largest in the past two years to boot). That 12.75" perch was caught at about 1:30 pm in a shaded area of 3-4 ft water depth.
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Here is a photo of GB's beautiful hand-tied jig on the spinner arm. Thanks for letting me try it out, Mike.
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During the course of the trip, I caught several dozen smaller white perch (up to 11") and one surprise 10" yellow perch. Although I had spare batteries in my pocket, I left my usual water resistant camera at home by mistake. I was able to get the photo with my cell phone -- I rarely take pictures with that phone and am pleased that it came out as well as it did.
big perch closeup.jpg
Here is a photo of GB's beautiful hand-tied jig on the spinner arm. Thanks for letting me try it out, Mike.
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During the course of the trip, I caught several dozen smaller white perch (up to 11") and one surprise 10" yellow perch. Although I had spare batteries in my pocket, I left my usual water resistant camera at home by mistake. I was able to get the photo with my cell phone -- I rarely take pictures with that phone and am pleased that it came out as well as it did.
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