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Bsmaster,

Glad I could inspire! That looks outstanding!

I don't know about you but

I have yet to make a "poor choice" when it comes to preparing walleye or perch!!!!

Pequod,

Its quite simple actually. Last week I did walleye wrapped in bacon so I wanted to do perch in a similar fashion to hold it together but thought bacon would be too much so we tried proscuitto because it is extremely thin.

Smaller perch fillets actually work better but basically a 1" x 3" strip of filet folded over withe a little bit longer piece of proscuitto and 2 toothpicks stuck through all of  it in an "X" pattern. I wetted the perch filets just enough with olive oil to add your favorite seasoning to it. sheet of aluminum foil on the grill to avoid flareups and on they go and keep rollilng them around until all the fish is white and the proscuitto crisps up a bit....

Come to find out perch is firm enough that I was able to fold a strip over and use 2 toothpicks and did not need anything to hold it together and it didnt fall apart.

Think I'll be grilling up many panfish appetizers in the near future!

The finished product..perch wrapped in prosciutto with veggies!

Yep...and they were chewing bubble gum too!

Majority was in about 45'

The biggest one was in about 20'

Water temp 68 on top..was about 71 on Tuesday night

Launched from mandana this am with my dad to find some perch for dinner tonight. Kept 15...biggest 14.5"...caught them from 20' to 50'...still scattered yet. Pumpkin power grubs and sliders...bunch of rockies and smallies as usual as well

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Got this gal this am while perchin...2" power grub dropshot In about 20 fow......5 lb 21"

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Those 20-22's ARE the small ones for otisco.....there. is much food in that lake that I think the walleyes and tigers coexist rather well..

If I was a guessin man id say those bigtigers really like those 15-17" browns we've been catchin all summer

Tim

Yeah probably not going to fish terribly hard at alll..like ya said there is so much to enjoy about the adk and being with friends and family!

Ill wet aline here or there and we'll see what happens!

Those biggest ones in the pic were 14".. dad and I had fun this am. Dropshotting pumpkinseed 2" powergrubs in 30' to 55'. Kept movin around with the troling motor. Some nice rockies saw the filet knife also...got a few yesterday am as well by myself for a total of about7 lbs filets....35' you will catch everything ..rockies smb and perch...it seemed if you kicked out to 40' and as far as65', you would get less bites however the ones you did get were big perch

Me and a buddy Only gave the troll hour and a half...watched a tdd11 get ripped off the release but nothing there...tried casting in shallow for maybe a 1/2 hour..nothing doin... water temp I had was about 75 tonight.....could really feel the warmth coming off the water as the air cooled off

Congratulations to you and the family. Hope everyone is doing well!

Congrats Kevin , thats fantastic!

That memory will get filed under "remember that day when.....  "

I will be staying at 8th lake campground there in a couple weeks ...any other recommendations? will be pulling a 19 foot vhull also..... would like to try 8th lake......raquette lake.......bug lake is nearby to hike to.....any day flyin trips recommended?

Im up for pretty much anything.

typically a warmwater fisherman however always up for something new......

any suggestions?

Thanks

Tim

I trolled only about an hour tonight 8-9 in my little boat....nothing for me..I was reading about 71 for water temp tonight.

Gonna try a run in the am before work myself

those pics are great!

Best thing about today....was what Garrett the boy said after catching his walleye.

"This is better than the Wii!"

Mission accomplished!

Tim

Traffic on otisco may require an otterboat retrieval or two if they get too far out!

My mistake fishard23...I read that as lots of fish marked not caught.

Thanks all! Saw you out there as well fishard23, sorry you didn't have much luck. Sk8man sorry to hear you couldnt get out...it was pretty windy today for sure!

One of the nice things about otisco is it takes a lot to make it unfishable and you can get off the water quickly if needed

Got out on my toon on my birthday with my Dad about 6:30 last night. Getting used to using big planers that Justin (justtracytrolling ) was kind enough to let me try out and set them out pulling tdd9's ,shad raps, and tdd11's on 4 rods.

All I have up to this point is a couple of boards on orange mason line clipped to a couple pieces of 1" lead pipe that are stuck in some armrest cupholder holes. I bought the deep diving cranks and a 6 of the releases after Justin made me a BELIEVER to the trolling game. THe poles are kinda wedged into the railing with something on top of the butt. No rod holders, etc.

After a couple trips up down the west shore and 1 down the east shore heading north with nothing to show for it, I headed back across to the west shore and figured once I got over and headed south I was going to call it a night.

I started turning south at 8:30 over 55 ft of water and said to my Dad, " Well, this was a bust!" Two seconds after I said that, the inside rod pulling a foil perch tdd11 at 3 mph released and the pole LAUNCHED towards the back of the boat and landed on the rear couch and I managed to grab it before it kept on going.

Landed the 26.5" 8+ lb walleye safely with no issues as of course the hooks came out of her when she was in the net.

I don't think I've seen that violent of a hit from a walleye before! My 3 yr old boy had to get out of bed to come out and check out the walleye when I got home last night.

I owe it to Justin for confirming what I had thought could be successful in Otisco in the past but I just never put any real effort into the trolling thing other than dragging a couple sticks behind the boat hopin for a strike not paying attention to depth or speed etc. I.m pretty sure that other than maybe a local bass guy or two I know, there probably arent too many guys that have more prop revolutions on Otisco covering water than Justin. That guy has put some big time effort into figuring out whats going on and never giving up. Its been a pleasure to go out on his boat which is outfitted very well, learn what he has been doing, absorbing everything he has learned and then realizing that its silly for me not to add the trolling game to my arsenal to keep after these bigger fish during the summer when they are out in the middle and suspended. Justin has allowed me to "test drive" the trolling gig and I have bought it!

Anybody who fishes Otisco knows it can beat a man down with disappointment and frustration, but after hooking  a few avg 5-8 lbs fish and knowing whats in there, you know that your hard work will pay off if you are persistent.

Thanks again Justin! No I have some outfitting to do by next year!

Tim

Panfisher,

Any link on the dec you can share on the current info?

Thanks

Tim

The smb and 1 of those walleyes along with a some local sweet corn just fed 4 adults and 2 kids tonight! Gotta love it! Yeah...getting to the dock at 430 am ain't that tough!

The smb and 1 of those walleyes along with a some local sweet corn just fed 4 adults and 2 kids tonight! Gotta love it! Yeah...getting to the dock at 430 am ain't that tough!

CAPTION......."WHY PREY FISH DO NOT HAVE REARVIEW MIRROR!" Way to go!

Keepin lots of lines in the water and constantly checking them is key. It takes a lot of effort but when you know its goibg to be a nice fat eye, its all well worth it!