Gilford Perch Report for Jan 17th.

[Dave]

My buddy and myself hit Gilford yesterday, Walked out into the fog, first hole we drilled we stayed there all day with non stop bite, 18'FTW. You couldn't get your jig to the bottom before you had a fish on, it was crazy, was like that all day. My lure of choice was a micro white jig with a Perch eye. You could tease them right up into the hole. We must have filter threw hundreds to get any decent keepers. We found that fishing about 6' below the ice you could pull your jig away from the dinks to get the bigger ones. I brought around 30 home and my buddy maybe 40. It rained most of the day out there. When we left, the water was going down the hole like a toilet bowl. Ice were we fished was 6". I hope the ice holds, because it was melting fast. As we packed up, one guy came by that was lost asked which way is Gilford, good thing I had my GPS because he was heading in the opposite direction. The fog was so bad you couldn't see.
Be careful out there guys.
Now I got to get to work

[fishdude]

Good catch there Dave,hope you left me a few .Planning to go up sat, should be a zoo there this weekend.

[pathfinder]

Good idea with pulling away from small ones. I used micro white jig with a Perch eye before. I put rubber maggot on it.