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Welcome Dick Tabbert!

Thanks John since I have declared perch being the best eating fish on the planet I guess maybe this is a good place to be. I'll try to add a little bit of my experience's on perch fishing. These are my opinions that I have experienced. Lake Erie is our number one lake in this area for perch. When I was young my dad and I and uncles and cousins use to go out often in the fall. We would get hundreds of yellow perch of course this was many years ago since I was a boy. We would go out to where we thought the fish were throw the anchor and fish. Back then there was no such thing as a fish finder you would go off your last outing experiences. As I got older I ask dad to hold of on the anchor till we caught some fish drifting. This was like a fish finder to me and worked quit well. We most always caught loads of perch. The key to lake Erie was to let your bait all the way to the bottom probably 12' to 15' foot around here in Northwest Ohio. We would reel in 3 turns of the reel and wait for that special bite. Most time we didn't have to wait long and the action was on. Them were memories I'll never forget along with some of the finest table fare I know.

Welcome Maurie Hefner! Amazing Perch ,you're getting into!

Dick, you are not the first one to tell me Lake Erie ,IS the place for numbers of big Perch .Drifting and dragging a baited jig and anchoring on a school ,YUP you know ! DROP to bottom ,DRAG, LIFT a foot off bottom, WHILE DRIFTING ,till ya make contact is what I do as well Summer /early fall till they come back to the shallows . I absolutely agree with you they are GREAT table fare and I enjoyed hearing you say the memories are there to stick . A great fish ,right Dick!

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Everybody

I haven't been on this site in along time but I have some pictures of perch to share..

Caught in Lake Michigan this season..

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Great table fair great eats great fish thanks for sharing.

I am willing to share any tips and give a helping hand if needed..Just drop me a line..

Scott-Thanks for joining and sharing . Nice chubbers for the table ya got there! Theses look like big lake fish!  

This spinner Rig is being appreciated by the White Perch !this Summer !

heard a new nickname for Yellow Perch today that made me laugh ; 'PRISON FISH'

Prison fish sorta makes sense.

Ha ha yes Dick, the bars and stripes, plus its a prisoner to be sentenced to the frying pan if I've got a hankerin' for the great taste .

I've heard 'yellow Eisenhowers' at Santee-Cooper 30 years ago! Crazy!

Wow another name ,Eisenhower's? Thanks for the explanation David!

You're good for a lot .Very resourceful, very curious multi species fisherman, fly tier , generous . etc.

Always enjoy your posts!

Yeah well, if he's a good Boss he'll agree.He might hold back though , thinking you're leading up to asking for a raise!

Squirrel tail Jigs

Great colors on that perch.

Look at those eyes on top of the head looking upward like a flounder ! Let alone the Gills flaring like a reluctant captive! 

2015 's first Ice Perch took a med/large shiner on a tip up .#4 hook through the lips .8fow.

In a few weeks Belchers creek will have a Perch run from Greenwood Lake upstream to the dam at Pine cliff Lake

Hope you hit the run OK John and clean house.

Thanks Dick me too pal .Perch meal sounds good!

We are finally seeing perch runs down here.

Great Jim , yes its late compared to years past .

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With 42 degree and 44 degree water temps ,I haven't seen the Perch yet .

After a rain several 9-10" Aggressive Whites gathered by an inflow pipe and were caught on 32nd oz. Tabbert 'Jelly Jigs',tipped with crawler pieces.

New species for the jelly jigs hope they keep catching for you John.

THEY DO !

Spent some time with my boy Matt at Deep Creek Lake this week. Our best yellow perch was this splendid 14.5 inch Maryland Citation winner that hit my #3 Mepps in a shallow sun-warmed flat.

fantastic Perch Jim !!

So glad to have learned this skinning technique :

Same technique for Bullheads though I haven't tried it ,wonder if it works on pother fish .I imagine Walleyes can be skinned in this manner too. Anyone tried it on Bull heads or Walleyes?

Got my 2nd Yellow Perch(11,1/2") while targeting Crappie with shiners ,drifting and trolling .The 2nd shot helped get it down closer to bottom .It was a cloudless day and though the sun is  at a low angle  in the sky in November ,I fished noon-2:30 .Prefer the 3-5 pm low light for the Crappie.

13,1/4" on live shiner with 2 split shot ,trolling out at around 20' getting more Perch than usual while targeting Crappie which are generally between 20-10'.45 degree water

These fish were more like 26-30 feet deep .I hade the depth finder out today and my previous guess of 10-20' from a map was inaccurate

only one Perch yesterday , very shallow weeds

Me and Arty Cole caught three Perch that  hit his #4 Mepps spinner and my split shotted crawlers . Suspended and on bottom in what I'm guessing was 15' outside some weeds . Feel foolish leaving them but I wasn't prepared with a cooler and ice for keeping and we wanting to search for Bass and Pickerel .Next week I'd like to go back, with cooler and ice,  and see if I can locate the Perch ,Gills and other pannies with crawlers on bottom and slip floating .

Welcome Arnie, look forward to your input .

Hoping to figure out where the numbers of Perch are at the lake I've been fishing most at . This one came out of the tops of the weeds in 8 ' of water and slammed this thinfin right at the boat .