it'd be nice to see some decent spiny ray fishing again. i remember the non stop action there used to be for perch and bluegill off the gas dock in the late 80s, and there was once good crappie fishing around the rockpiles by the islands

seems to me the perch have been the hardest to catch in recent years, and i'd like to put the blame on those lunker walleyes, but i know us fishermen have probably contributed quite a bit. there used to be some guys that would put 200 perch in the bucket on the mar don dock, that's like wiping out whole schools in one sitting. i think the bluegill have been about the same way, haven't caught anything over 4" out of there in ages

it kind of makes me wonder...could it be something with the water? most of the local lakes around there seem to have taken the same downturn, like moses. hopefully, it's just some kind of extreme fluctuation in the fish numbers...the walleye might eat too many panfish and their numbers will crash, the panfish will recover and so will the walleye and so on.