Lake Perry

[jdmidwest]

We catch most of our cats during the day.

[Haris122]

Interesting. I'll give them more of a try during the day then, next time.

[Haris122]

I went to Perry County Community Lake today to give it another try while the weather is nice. Man, the amount of shad that have died off at that lake was amazing. I didn't think they had 1/3 of that many shad in the entire lake, as they had on just the shorelines that I checked out. And it's a pretty safe bet to assume there were plenty more spots only accessible by boat, where there were many more. I'd have thought somebody detonated several good sized bombs throughout that lake with all those dead fish. I had never seen anything of that scale. Hard to believe a harsh winter alone did all that. It's like every last shad in that lake bit the dust. Stench was like something out of the worst-smelling exhibit at the Zoo, all over the place.

We still stuck it out near one of the boat ramps, and I managed to get 2 small bass out of it near twilight. Also think I snagged what looked like a solid carp but only got to see it long enough to kind of have an idea what size it was, before it took off, and the lure came out. No doubt would've been one of the biggest fish I've landed to date. Not huge but a good solid fish for sure whatever it was.

[cart7]

My largest bass to date came from Perry County. 8 1/2 lbs. I've caught numerous bass in the 4 1/2 to 6 1/2 lb range there. It's a great jerkbait lake in the spring when that shad die off is happening. I haven't fished there in a few years but a popular summer pattern is watching the aeration boils and looking for the bass busting through the shad that congregate around them in the summer. I'd tie on a Rapala glass shad crankbait and pretty much just jump from aeration boil to boil and pick off a couple keepers on each.

That lake has a lot of good bass in it.