GREG'S 12" PERCH

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Comment by John Sheehan on November 21, 2016 at 6:47am

Greg got a good one here .The conditions were very tough , used a drift sock but the wind was still driving us too fast to present the baits  slowly to the  fish .The best we could do was get in back of an island that had some protection from the Cold North wind .

  I also consider the 12" mark the start of Jumbo size .I catch very few 12 and over .Many dinks lately in my home lake on a small Red feather Jig tipped with a piece of crawler and dead sticked on bottom or floating Jig head very close to bottom.

Comment by Slip Sinker on November 20, 2016 at 10:55am

Nice fish john…  To me that 12-inch mark is the start of a Jumbo perch.  This summer I caught a few jumbos but not in the stereotyped yellow perch water.  These fish were found in dirty water … slop weeds and lay downs in the shallows.

Growing up and living near the great lakes typical Y.Perch water is considered deep and clear along deep drop-offs and breaks. Big bodies of water supporting large numbers of fish. These great lakes sustain the huge schools of these fish because the lakes can support them in those numbers. Huge volumes of water and forage.

A different story in my local area smaller lakes… the good Y.Perch are fewer in number and smaller in size. Minnows being their main forage… schools of the better y.perch pursue the minnows following the shorelines. The minnows hang at breaks along the shore including weeds, laydowns, wood and rip rap in dirtier water. I tag them occasionally fishing for B.Gills with jigs and drop-shot but just a few here and there.

Michigan Master Angler is at 14” length and zero have been caught in my county the past ten years but many are caught in the Great lakes easily exceeding that length.

It just might be the simple answer… small inland lakes just don’t support the sizes as well as numbers.

Comment by John Sheehan on November 18, 2016 at 1:00pm

Be happy to Carl if I could just find more than 3 at a time of any decent size like this one .

Comment by carl hendrix on November 18, 2016 at 12:12pm

WISH I HAD THOSE IN MY WATER !!    SEND A FEW MY WAY JOHN; LOL

Comment by John Sheehan on November 18, 2016 at 8:38am

I'd really like to get on a school consistently .

Comment by dick tabbert on November 18, 2016 at 8:11am

Man I could take these all day.