That a way Howard !Inspirational catch there!

What's the daily limit for keeping Perch up there in Vermont ?In New Jersey it's 50 no size minimum,same as Sunfish.

There is no limit on Lake Champlain.    Smaller lakes it is 50 here also no limit on sunnies.    There should be a limit on Champlain also.   The fishing is not as good as it was 40 years ago here.   I keep between 30 and 35 that maks a great meal and a few left overs for my lunch the next day.

       We do have some Bluegills here but the Pumpkinseed or sunnie is more abundent

Welcome Chuck.Nice ice Perch you caught on mousies . Post some Perch pics here please and share some tips!

Perch were hitting Dardevle spoons along with the Bass yesterday!

Fighting good in cold water!

Hey group friends,incredible Perch photos show up when you search 'Perch' under photos!!

John thanks for the reports! Can you tell me a little bit about the body of water you are fishing for these perch? What is the pipe with runoff water entering, a river?

Thanks CHarlie

I'm guessing still in/ towards the end of  spawning mode .The pipe is NOT the only outlet and I've caught Perch shallow near running water in a SE section  mid summer and been surprised .Not numbers like this though! Perch are usually deeper after Early Spring Spawn.

 The thing that may make this inlet a major one is it's a NW warmer  inlet that's accesible by shore fishing ,and Spring is when the Perch use it most .I would have to access the other NW & NE inlets by boat which I can do but not sure they'd be as productive . The perch are probably there too but I have an undeniable honey hole I can fish for an hour from shore and it's down the street from my house. I really don't think the Yellow Perch are much bigger in the lake than the 8-10" I'm catching but in your area maybe my experience can be modified to bigger water and be of good use.

I'm thinking the Perch Spawn is done here in NE NJ.

Nephew Orrin gets a 12&1/4" Fatty on a 32nd oz.Tube Jig @Vernon Valley Lake

http://bigbluegill.com/photo/fishing-vernon-valley-lake-4?xg_source...

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!

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?

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!!!!

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

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

 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. 

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! 

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.

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 .