LURE 1 | Page 62

L U R E The fish we re like peas in a pod, before som ething bigge r turned up . dead end of water – a fact that the perch take full advantage of. Silently under the surface these stripey assassins manoeuvre and corral the bait fish towards these dead ends. With nowhere to run, except through the perch themselves, this live larder of fry are going nowhere – and the perch are never far away. The obvious place to present a lure then is alongside the first few boats nearest the end of the water. The perch tucked up in the shadows cast by the large hulls are waiting for a stray baitfish to