Could use a lil help...Bay Fishing

Other than driving around PI I know very lil about it even though I am local I am more of a stream fisherman.
Was wondering if the perch/crappie can be caught from shore-have waders willing to wade a lil.
Have a friend visiting just looking for some good eating fish we did the steelhead thing yesterday.
Anyone willing to spoon feed me some spots and tactics???
Private Message me if you want...THANKS   WCW

Yes , started using the stuff around 89 never looked back.

 The bays booming 3 trips 3 limits X2 with my buddy. Keepers to me 11"up. A lot of 1.25-1.50 lb fish with several 2 lb fish, one last trip was 4oz from the state record. Giant fish in the bay,key is finding the big one's. If your catching drinks it's time to pull up anchors. Yesterday 43 degrees air temps, 33 water,ice out to 12' at the head of the bay. A little more work because they where deep but we got the job done. If go have a boat the bay is easy to learn. There's a handful of spots that produce jumbo regular. Things to keep in mind,bobbers for fishing shallow,slip bobbers fishing deep,simply made your own perch spreaders,( go on YouTube) floating jig heads,small 1/64 leadheads,ice jigs,small plastics,maggots,waxies,and never be without emerald shiners never. People make fun of perch fishing till you eat a fried perch dinner. We caught and released the ever so hard to catch steelhead accidentally perch fishing,to me there just a big stupid trout. You can wade in the very shallow water by the cat tail island and get a mixed bag big gills,crappie and some decent perch although you may keep about 1 -10 perch there,it depends. A lot of locals keep 8-9 inch fish. To each his own,I don't. Erie full of fish and enough for everyone,you ask I'll tell. It's show time.
 

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Mountian Man
Are da peerch up to rt 5 yet?

LMAO......good one

Serious question got a 4 hr drive with a shortbus full of west virginans and wanna make sure its worth it

Don't forget to pack the moonshine jars....Lake Erie water has a fishy taste !

 Was out in the bay last night from about 5:30 to 8:15 or so, some chop and pretty **** cold.  Found some shelter in Liberty Marina with many dinks ( thats under 9 inches to me) I agree with Big Tuna, unless its a chubby 9 not worth the time for me anymore, If I was fishing to eat it would be different and if I already didnt have 30 plus lbs in the freezer lol. Headed over to PI Marina lake and scoped some marks got on a few bottom bundles only 4 of size and they were released. Had to push out alot of ice at the chestnut launch with the boat. Water temp hovered around 36, it was about 37-38 in Presque Isle Marina.
 
 rmcmillen .... looking forward to it. Are you in Pa. or Ohio? Was checking out the head boats page.

Maybe not 7's but there's a ton of 8" and 8.5" fish in the locals buckets off the city side piers. I really don't get it,there's a ton of jumbo perch in the bay. I travel 2 hours to fish and my 30 are going to be the biggest I can get, in 3 trips my limits  where mostly fish over 10"- 15.5". First trip we did keep a few 9.5" fish but the last two trips they've been really big fish When you got a bucket of jumbo perch a 10" fish looks like a dink.lol The 7" limit comes off because when you do the deep water perch thing they just die anyway so some guys will ice them not to waste most guys let the gulls have dinner.

Funny story when it comes to that state record perch. The day that was caught I found the perch at the 1st green shipping lane buoy outside of the channel. Started blastin em. I was the only boat there. Some other boats started showin up and they were catchin some but not like us. We ran out of minnows and didnt have our limit yet. Ran into east ave., grabbed more minnows and headed back. Someone was parked in my spot so I had to anchor 30-40 feet away. We caught some but they was blastin em. We watched them catch the state record that day.
 
BH

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
LMAO Kinda like that guy who jumps in your spot on the crik while you are landing a fish.
 
BH

NE wind 9-13 mph some rain. Should be ok. I'm going Monday.

We smashed em, had a blast out there, a bit chilly. Still cant feel my fingers. Caught a mixed bag from dinks to jumbos.
 
BH

No and yes, The head was dead, and PR's has tons of em. Not tryin to spot burn, but we were in and around the library.
 
BH