The Perch Are Biting

I called one of my old fishing buddies who lives on the Mississippi and checked to see how the fishing has been. He reported that the big perch are still biting and so are the bluegills and crappies. This has been a great year for perch, with fish from ten to eleven and even twelve inches being caught. A twelve inch perch is a fine fish and great eating.

A couple of places that have been really good are Green Lake at Blackhawk Park just north of DeSoto, and DeSoto bay. Both have been consistently good this winter.

The water is open below the Genoa dam and many fishermen have been fishing for walleyes there. They are catching mostly sauger and a few walleyes right now and most are small but it’s pretty fast fishing. Some are catching fifty to sixty fish per day.

Spring is just around the corner and soon we’ll see some really great fishing after what has seemed to be a never ending winter.

by: Dan Bomkamp