Beautiful day at Westport/Grayland yesterday! A couple brief heavy rain showers, but overall there was more sun than clouds for the day. Started with an EARLY morning razor clam dig...both me and my buddy got limits.

Then we started casting for perch. Just walked up and down the shore from Grayland Beach Rd to Cranberry Beach Rd hitting pockets of perch as we went along.

It was interesting to see how the day turned out. I was running a sliding weight and my buddy was running a double hook drop shot. The drop shot definitely out performed the sliding weight. Between us we got 21 perch, but my buddy got quite a few more than I did.

His very first cast was a 2.6 lb pile perch! It was a beast! He also hit a decent size striped perch (the half fish in the pic)....stupid seagulls were picking at it every time we turned our backs so we had to salvage what we could. LOL

Some of the fish in this pic are my buddy's fish and some are mine. I will say that the hog of a red tail on the bottom right is mine and he will hit the frying pan this evening. Can't wait! Wish I would have got a picture of his pile perch. Made that big red tail look small!

So next time you're fishing for surf perch, I would recommend the drop shot over the sliding weight. It performed way better. We were hitting them on clam necks, Gulp 2" sand worms, and good ole' night crawlers.