Piscatorial Pursuit of Perch

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Comment by Jeffrey D. Abney on August 20, 2012 at 5:36pm

Don't kick me out John....Just trying to get a fishing fix on my home rivers.....I'll be adding some information soon....

Comment by Jeffrey D. Abney on August 16, 2012 at 2:49pm

My favorite artificial to toss to the White Perch in coastal North Carolina is this little design called the "Perquimans Pickle"....named after a local river famous for very good White Perch fishing......I still tip it with a cricket or a worm but it can be alot of fun.......Largemouth, Bluegill and Crappie love this rig as well.....I love to slow roll it on falling or rising waters on intermediate points on local rivers......I have had days where the painted blade is the only spinner they would hit.......so important that the gentleman that designed it oversized the blade for added flash.....

Comment by John Sheehan on August 16, 2012 at 6:43am

Anxious to see your post Jeffrey! Only Live bait I recall catching White Perch on is a crawler piece or a  mealworm .Usually attached to a spoon or a Jig.Through the ice perhaps a dead shiner piece or Perch eye attached to a spoon has gotten me a few.

Comment by Jeffrey D. Abney on August 15, 2012 at 5:03pm

Thanks John....Hope I can share some tips that might help some guys catch a few perch.....

Comment by John Sheehan on August 15, 2012 at 3:01pm

Great ,welcome Jeffrey! I am sure it'll be informative for us all now.

Comment by Jeffrey D. Abney on August 15, 2012 at 1:38pm

I'm in here now John.....I catch many white perch on live bait and equally on artificial.....A local man makes my favorite white perch bait...It's called the "Perquimans Pickle", named after the river fished most often by the guy that invented it....I'll talk more and add some photos of the rigs when I get home later this week.....

Comment by John Sheehan on August 15, 2012 at 10:23am

Charlie -In my home lake Yellow Perch are coming on bottom in relatively shallow basin areas or flats (10-12')and close to creek Channels.Long drifts dragging /lifting /dropping a worm tipped spoon is working for me .If the wind moves the boat too fast and I'm missing fish ,I backtroll into the wind to slow down . I end up catching them that way  .I still have to try other deeper basin areas that might have larger Yellows though .

Comment by John Sheehan on August 14, 2012 at 10:05am

 

Found a good way to catch White Perch the other day .The 1/8th oz.Blue Fox Flash spoon or Kastmaster (like Musky Mod uses for Bull Gills) tipped with 1/2 a baby nightcrawler .A certain retrieve only produced White Perch as they are often more aggressive on a faster presentation .The idea was to get it to the bottom and jerk and scoot a horizontal swath . They banged it when presented this way while Yellow perch and Gills wanted a slow lift or slow drag . It was very specific for the White Perch ! I have noticed White Perch often are found with these other fish ,including Crappie but can only be caught with a faster speed of presentation than what is catching the other species. This has proven to be the case several times and now I always pick up the pace when targeting White Perch no matter what the season or month .They always seem to be in higher gear than the other pannies .

Comment by charlie flanders on July 12, 2012 at 5:43am

Let's talk summer perch tactics! Where do you look for perch? Deep flats, hard bottom, soft bottom? What type lakes have  good perch population? Bigger, clearer, smaller,weedy?

Since perch seem to move around alot I'd like to narrow down the search area some by targeting the mostly places.

I've never really targeted just perch but would like to. Whenever I catch a nice one while gilling I never seem to be able to get more.

Comment by John Sheehan on May 22, 2012 at 9:58am

Welcome to the group Vince !Looking forward to hearing about your Perch catches .I hope you'll post some Perch photos too. Do you catch White Perch also? They are quite different to Yellows and take to a fast retreived Spinner or Crankbait .I also mostly catch Yellow Perch on small jigs up to 16th oz. and feel the Yellows prefer a slow retreive near bottom most of the time . At times spoons ,spinners and cranks will take Yellow Perch too but a worm tipped feather,Marabou, or Bucktail jig is my choice weapon .Love ice fishing for Yellow and White Perch and cooking and eating them out on the ice with Nephews and Brother! 

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