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Been fishing smallmouth at Tapps all year and doing well. Needed a challenge and decided I needed to make sure I still know how to catch a largemouth. Hit Tanwax at first light. It was cloudy kinda cool and misty. Thought that might make for a good early top water bite. Nothing happening with the top water bite. Threw senko's around the docks and nothing. Did get a nice 2.2lbr on the senko in a pocket in the pads and a couple dinks. Morning action was slow. Once the sun came out around noon I started punching the pads with a jig and craw trailer. Think it was a pb&j color with a watermelon craw. Started catching them left and right. Really putting the jig in some tight places. Most of them were in the 1.5lb range. Smaller ones came on the outside edge of the pads also. I even had to hang over the boat and nearly go diving for one that was hung in the pads a foot or two down. Thank goodness for 30lb braid. All in all caught about 15 today. One of my best days on Tanwax. To bad my fishing partner (wife). Could not make it today. Maybe tomorrow. Sorry for the cheesy selfies she was asking for photos. I was solo and was not even gonna take any but she asked

bassman72

8/7/2014 10:37:00 AM

Does anyone know why the perch are dying in this lake. Water surface temps did reach 81.4 but I thought perch were more tolerant.

rockjiggr

8/8/2014 5:34:00 PM

If the perch are dying in large numbers, it is likely due to oxygen depletion in the deeper water. Perch tend to school in deep, cool water in the heat of the summer and if the oxygen levels at that preferred depth with preferred temps is too low, they are just not able to cope and end up dying in number. That is exactly how the Fish and Game people kill off excessive perch populations when they try to rehabilitate lakes for trout. They use a chemical that removes the oxygen at the specified depths and it does the trick.

bassman72

8/11/2014 11:23:00 AM

Thanks I figured oxygen depletion had something to do with it. I just thought perch were a more hardy species and I have never seen this before. We are having a warm summer.

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