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Old 12-08-2019, 10:23 AM
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Originally Posted by Burbot Sherbet View Post
I’ve been fishing the same small lake in Woodlands County very often over about a five year period and the perch have always been found in the same shallow, gravelly bottomed, reedy areas. I’ve seen them moderately deeper later in the winter, though.



This winter, I went right to the usual haunts and found no perch at all. After a couple trips only catching Jackfish, I steeled my resolve for a hundred hole day and eventually found a healthy school of perch in the deepest hole in the lake; literally the last place I looked for them! What are my perch doing so deep, so early in the season?
Gorging on blood worms and mayfly larvae likely. Maybe your shallow spots had a poor shrimp recruitment year. Fish go where the food is.

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