Hit the lake with my father to see if we couldn't pick up a few perch for a meal or two. The winds were fairly calm and we able to free drift with the help a a couple of drift socks and the occasional use of the kicker motor. We tried a few different spots, north side of Mercer Island, the 520 bridge and the west shore near Leschi. We found bait and fish in all three areas with the majority coming from the west shore. Our best action came in around 40' of water, though we really didn't give the deeper areas a lot of time. My lure of the day was a Crocodile spoon and my father was using a Swedish Pimple, both were tipped with perch meat. Our bigger fish were a shade shy of 12" long and in the 3/4 of a pound range. It did get a bit cold and wet while we were fishing and we stopped after we had a dozen fish in the box. The fish still seem to be scattered, which slowed down our catching rate, but winter is right around the corner and I'm sure they will be bunched up shortly.

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