Today, my brother Bobby and I headed down to the bay to try our luck for perch. The dock was crowded with fisherman. It was cold and sunny with temperatures in the low 40's dropping down into the 30's around dark. We both fished for an hour and a half without even a bite. Then my brother caught a jumbo perch measuring 13 and a half inches.
The sun was now sinking fast and right when it was sinking below the horizon, the fish started to bite. Within the next half hour, we caught another three big perch and 8 small ones we tossed back. My brother even caught a little crappie and threw it back in to get bigger.
The weather pattern has not been good for perch fishing. High pressure has been sitting on us for a few days now with skies clear and sunny. Not at all typical for April in Erie PA. The perch are still in the bay and the next front is going to turn them on.
A few nice crappies are being caught in the waters in and around Presque Isle but I have not had any reports of limits being caught. Steelhead fishing in the streams is slow because we have not had any rains for awhile. We might get one last run of steelies before they head out into the lake for the summer.
Good luck fishing!
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