Started the day at 7am with my gf at the public launch south of the island in 40 ftow Ice was 12 inches. We had a steady bite all day. The key to fishing curlew is tiny movements. Keep your rod tip movement at 3/8ths of an inch. Jig, jig, vibrate the lure. I use a Swedish pimple with a grub as the attractor lure on my rod and a 1/16th jig head with a perch eye on my gfs rod. For some reason the combo of the two increase bites all around. If I sit the pimple, our bites go way down. My imagination assumes that the Pimple looks like a struggling fish and the jig looks like a worm making off with that fish's eye. Who knows tho really? I am including a picture of 20 perch fillets from Curlew versus 20 perch flaves from Sacheen lake. Really shows you why the 3 hour drive is worth it.

Everybody on the water did pretty bad this day except for us. As I've done all Winter I wanted to see why they weren't catching. So I went over to their holes and used the same techniques and pulled perch up immediately. That's just it you have to switch up techniques to be successful.

What worked: The new heater I got for Xmas...hot damn! Tiny jig movements and vibrations.

What didn't work: people assuming it's just a bad day. There are no bad days for perch fishing, just bad technique.

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