The White Perch Run is On

Type: Nontidal
Region: Eastern
Location: Chester River at Millington

With the warm weather on Thursday, I wanted to wet a line for the first time this year. It�s been a long winter. I went to the headwaters of the Chester River at Millington. The parking lot was quite full, but a short hike down the bank and I found an open area to cast my rig. A small foam torpedo bobber over a 1/8 ounce jig sporting a 1� Gulp Alive Minnow. The tide was beginning to come in. My first cast was met with a strike and I set the small hook on a feisty 6� White Perch. The action was slow and steady for an hour or so with a fish every 10 minutes, then with the tide coming hard it picked up. I caught 3 small Bluegills on tiny Yellow Perch and, I estimate, between 50 and 60 White Perch. The lion�s share of my fish were 5-7� but about a dozen were plumper and 8- 10�. Most of the other anglers around me caught fish in the same size range, though I did see one caught of about a foot long.