Every time I go north, I wonder if there are also plenty of perch in that area. In the first half of my stay, I focused mainly on fishing for pike and also looked for suitable places to fish for perch. In the second half, I went full on fishing for my favorite perch. I prepared two rods, one for fishing with the Drop Shot method and the other for a classic light spinning rod with cheburashka. Pretty soon it became clear that the Drop Shot is not so suitable in this area, because there was a lot of aquatic plants on the bottom, so the choice fell on a light cheburashka. Of the rubber lures, I prefer to use waders or small rippers for perch. I really like Berkley Original and Realistix 7.5 cm squeegees, as well as Keitech squeegees. From the rippers, three-inch Keitech Easy Shiner, or Savage Gear Cannibal Shad rippers 6.8 cm and 8 cm. Cannibal Shad is probably the most popular rubber bait ever for me, and in the color Blue Pearl it works for me for a long time on almost all waters, especially for perch, pike and sometimes even walleye.
One day it was so windy that it was almost impossible to go out on the kayak, so I made an exception and went out on the boat. We drove to a more distant part of the area, where on one side there were long strips of reeds with a depth of about a meter and a half and on the other side a rock falling to a depth of about two meters. I baited the favorite blue Cannibal on the cheburashka and waited to see what would happen. It was a wonderful early evening, when for about an hour the perch went almost to the cast and I thoroughly enjoyed their fishing. The size of the perch ranged up to approx. 38 cm and I thought that in the next few days I must get to at least 40 cm. In the end, I also managed to do that, and I could evaluate this year's fishing trip to the north as very successful, both in terms of size and the number of fish caught...
