Piscatorial Pursuit of Perch

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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! 

Comment by Vince Fusco on May 22, 2012 at 9:51am

 I  guess people do not think of Georgia as a place to catch yellow perch. I fish backwater lakes off the Chattahoochie River about an hour north of Atlanta for these tasty fish. My best one here weighed 1lb. 12oz.. I prefer fishing a 1/32 or a 1/16oz. jig with a tube skirt tipped with a minnow. My go to color is a blue and white tube, but have caught them on many other combinations depending on the conditions. 

Comment by John Sheehan on April 27, 2012 at 11:29am

Comment by John Sheehan on March 13, 2012 at 6:57am

Comment by Greg McWilliams on December 26, 2011 at 5:38am

John, This might be as close to a Yellow Perch as I get !!!!!! :-)

Comment by John Sheehan on December 21, 2011 at 12:40pm

Greg-Knew I 'd find you here!LOL!

Comment by Greg McWilliams on December 20, 2011 at 5:27pm

Ok John , I am in!!! Yellow Perch on a fly rod!!!! Alec, tell us more!!!

I want one of these on a flyrod!!!!! I am gonna have to head north!!!

But not till summer!!!!

Comment by John Sheehan on December 20, 2011 at 11:05am

Alec-Great job with the flyrod on those great Yellow Perch !Greg Mc Williams wants to catch Perch on his flyrod in the worst way .So would I in fact .What flies did you use ?I imagine you used a sinking line ,is that right?

Comment by John Sheehan on November 11, 2011 at 7:00am

Yellow Perch in the shallows (some Gills too) in November ,YES! Jig and crawler piece slip floated @4'.They can be caught out in the basin areas drifting and dragging same bait .Yellow Perch are active!

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