Piscatorial Pursuit of Perch

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Comment by David, aka, "McScruff" on December 13, 2012 at 12:05pm

Mealworms?

Comment by John Sheehan on December 13, 2012 at 12:02pm

COLD WATER PERCH! 20 minutes of fishing and 20 minutes of consistent catchin' .Yellow Perch and Slip floating is the most consistent fishing I've been doing in December.

Comment by John Sheehan on December 13, 2012 at 11:50am

Yellow Perch still hitting 1/8th oz/Jig/mealworm offerings, long cast from shore .Pop the float 2 or 3 times and they're on .

Comment by John Sheehan on December 4, 2012 at 9:36am

Warmed up yesterday and managed to catch Yellow Perch on a Beetle spin and a Slip Floated Jig .Caught 10 in about an hour .Was trying to catch the Pickerel that dropped off at the wall the day before .It was about 20 " and took the slip floted BuckTail/Mealworm offering .Whether its the Slip floated Jig at 3.5' or the Beetle spin ,a slow steady retreive has them turned on!

Comment by John Sheehan on December 2, 2012 at 3:54pm

12/2 /12 Slip floating with the Zebco Slab Seeker .Reel; Daiwa Spinmatic 500 T 4lb test line .Long casts from shore .Float stop set at 3.5' under the surface .Slow steady retreive produced 14 Yellow Perch and two 12" thick  Crappie ! Bait 16th oz,Bucktail jig/Mealworm.

Comment by John Sheehan on November 25, 2012 at 4:31pm

11/25/12 FISH@ DUSK.

Comment by David, aka, "McScruff" on November 15, 2012 at 8:16am

25-30 fish seems to be a widely used bag limit among the panfish genre. It certainly strikes me as enough....

Im interested by the many colloquial names for sunfish, there in the Garden State.

Comment by John Sheehan on November 14, 2012 at 7:50am

In New Jersey  White Perch are thrown together with other species that require no size limit. 25 White Perch is the most one can keep or 25 in aggregate including other species in this list :

Rock Bass, White Perch,

Yellow Perch, Sunfish (see below for sunfish

exceptions), Bullheads, White Catfish,

Suckers, Carp, Bowfin, Pumpkinseed and all

other species with no specified creel limit.

 

Certain Conservation regulations apply to some lakes ,changing to lesser amount of kept fish and size limits .Also some species of Sunfish are endangered are must be released (Banded Sunfish,Black banded Sunfish,Blue Spotted Sunfish and Mud Sunfish ) 

Comment by John Sheehan on November 14, 2012 at 7:30am

 

Great info David ! Ever notice the purple under the lower lip on a White Perch?

Comment by David, aka, "McScruff" on November 10, 2012 at 6:30pm

I went on to say: "I’m betting that were it just..." you and the ranger, the 30 per day limit would be enforced."

I have since learned that is not the case and I've lost my own bet.

In what has to be an oddity of conservation, the white perch fell from grace and are now considered less than "non-game" in terms of management. As of 2008, they were dropped from the regulations and South Carolinas' DNR website encourages anglers to take as many as they want, at any time. This edict applies statewide in South Carolina.

The white perch (morone americana) is in the same class of fish as the other temperate basses, to which it is kin. Striped bass, white and yellow bass - these are all it's noble brethren in the family, Moronidae. But where they are held in princely esteem, the white perch is derided almost universally. 

The white perch is native to the estuarine waters of the eastern US, from the St. Lawrence River south the river marshes of South Carolina. However, it has a unique feature that should elevate it in our regard. I'd go so far as to call it fascinating.

The white perch, you see, is anadromous. This means is can live in both brackish salt water or wholly fresh water. Striped bass share this same trait. And because of it, both have been transplanted widely.** But where they are landlocked and unable to reach the sea, they do just fine.

The white perch, then, is really just a "mini-Me" version of the striped bass. It also happens that they are prolific breeders and opportunistic feeders... and they know nothing of loyalty. They will as happily eat the worm from your hook as the eggs of a striped bass. This makes for a fish that is easily classed as a nuisance, especially where the more traditional game-fish are concerned.

** The story goes that the first striped bass known to be living solely in fresh water were those inhabiting the lakes of the Santee-Cooper river system - Lakes Moultrie and Marion in South Carolina.

It seems that when the two lakes were formed by damming the rivers, Atlantic striped bass had been up the rivers spawning, the usual trait of fish in the family moronidae. They were, in essence, caught behind the gates. Undeterred by this event, they not only thrived in the freshwater systems but were the genesis for an entire industry. Today they are transplanted and stocked around the world and are the state freshwater fish of Maryland, Rhode Island, South Carolina, and the state marine fish of New York, New Jersey, Virginia, and New Hampshire

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