After the disastrous morning at Lake Boren, I decided to swing by Ballinger in hopes of improving my day a bit by maybe catching a trout.

I was there about 6 hours. No one had a bite, until some people showed up about 5 and in 20 minutes they had 3 with powerbait on the bottom. None of the rest of us had any luck.

But, to keep myself occupied while the powerbait sat out there, I drowned some worms for some perch. They were cooperative, as the picture indicates. The guy next to me caught the only decent perch of the day, 9 inches and change. It looked comical on the stringer, next to all the rest of the minnows we both had, given that a 9 inch perch is about 3, maybe 4 times the mass of a 7 inch perch. Perch in the picture almost all about 7 inches.

No trout, but lots of perch lovin.

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