Chuck, can I venture to guess some of your spots have water entering the lake nearby ?

john, One lake I fish for perch has a channel running into it, but a couple other ones have no running water entering them.  I usually work the drop offs in around 20 feet of water as I work around the lake.  I like the underwater bays and points.  I have my best luck for winter perch right at sun up till about 9am and sundown till dark.  When is your favorite ice fishing times?

Chuck ,when does ice fishing usually start for you ? Here it seldom starts ,for me at least, before Christmas and usually I guess around New Years . My fishing time preferences ,'bout the same as you for morn and about 3pm -dark. The crappies start hitting a little before dark which I really like sometimes that's when I get more White Perch too.  .Yellow Perch are great though because they'll hit all day .Just gotta fish the effective depth. In my small lake I usually catch them midday about 12' but other lakes it can be 20' or more .  I usually fish the evening bite .In the morn I'm drinking coffee and visiting this site !

9/26/13 Yellow Perch were active in the shallows by a feeder Pipe hitting small floated Jigs .It should just keep getting better for them at the local lake till early December .

Guys are Perch Fishin' Greenwood lake in the creek ,Muskies are there too.

exclusive perch bite from shore past two times out .Tandem Tube jigs and floated squirrel tail jigs with yellow twister tails got em.

John...I have a small lake near home that has a similar set up...I might give the perch a try! Thanks for the info!

Hope it works for you Jim! Let us know!

This tandem rig swimming retrieve approach  out fished  the slip float approach the last  time out . http://bigbluegill.com/profiles/blogs/tandem-jig-rig-for-pannies

Yesterday the tandem Jig Rigs and Slip Float /Jig Rig caught 65 fish ,except for a few  yesterday on a 10th oz. Thunderbolt spoon .Mostly Yellow Perch 9-11" ,some real nice thick Crappies 11-13",about four White Perch up to 10.5"and three Gills to 8" .Got three Doubles on the Tandem including a White Perch /Yellow Perch Double .Most fish came on the Tandem rig but float rig caught real fine Crappie! Fishing into the wind at the dam end of the lake produced great numbers and consistent action for 4 and 1/2 hrs.!

Finally tried this fantastic way of cleaning Perch .I'm hoping the bones fall away from the flesh after cooking like the video says http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjTlFwQb7D0 

http://bigbluegill.com/photo/cleaning-fish?context=album&albumI...

Tandem jig rig with twister tails worked great on Yellow Perch yesterday when the water surface was calm ! So did the floated tandem marabou jigs tipped with the mussel bits after the wind picked up .

Yellow Perch are still hittin' Jigs on Rip Rap. Got 25 ,9-10" on Buck tail jigs today from 2:30-4:30.  

Wow John...you are smokin the perch, man! Those are great numbers...and certainly big enough to eat. Keep any?

No Jim ,didn't keep any but thinking of going back with that intention another day . David, swimming Buck tail Jigs ,white/brown caught 21 and caught one other swimming a Squirrel tail . Then I rested the spot and tried a wind blown point hoping for Crappie and Bass using a slip float white Buck tail and caught another YP. Came back to spot one and caught another on the squirrel tail and called it quits . It was happening the 1st hour ! I would love to get on bigger Perch and have a lake in mind 20 minutes from my house .Next year perhaps .

Ha ha!

I like to use Swedish pimples for perch they work really well sounds like u have have a honey hole

James- I do have a honey hole and since I am casting and retrieving up rip rap from shore , I'd rather lose a 50 cent jig than a $3.50 pimple .I 'll save the pimples when I'm in a boat or through the ice .You're right Perch do like them . Lost one jig today after it caught 21 fish .

Cost effective!  21 perch on a 50 cent jig!

Yea Jim that cost effectiveness appeals to me !Still would like to catch Perch the size you get them though!

Dinky Perch from Cupsaw through the ice .They like the waxies and Mealies and Perch eyes on a flyer spoon or Jiggin' Rap.

The few white Perch caught were decent chunks around; 10-10.5 ". Beaded Nymph/mealie , Hildebrandt/Trout Nibble did the trick.

This fatty took a Genz worm/waxie combo in about 8 FOW ,close to bottom .

5/22/14 Perch have vacated the shallows and dropped back to 5' flats adjacent to creek channels. Using 1/8th and 1/4 oz. Dardevle and Acme Kamlooper spoons tipped with Crawler pieces or Mealworms,about 12 Yellow Perch including an 11"  ,and 3 White Perch (Two 11") and 5 Gills cooperated today. Drifting at the North end of the lake with a South wind .  

Love the Perch David , I don't think they like me !

What I mean Dave ,is the Perch don't like me 'cause of their sore lips .

Felt good rowing again in a 10' boat too. This 60 year old body needs the exercise .

David , got any of these ? They work on Bass, Trout and Gills too! OH, and Pickerel of course!

The two yellow spoons worked the best the other night on the Perch and Gills. All three caught though . The Devle Dog has gotten decent Bass in the past , the Red/White snared a trout I recall and the Kamlooper with its slower fall and smaller size has gotten Gills in past years.

Work on Trout too!

After a serious rain, the White and Yellow Perch ,as well as lots of Gills and a few Crappie ,revisited the shallows by the pipe inlet . Good action with about a dozen Whites ,countless Gills and Yellow Perch and a few Crappie .Worms, Tube Jigs, Mealies were effective .

The White Perch fought great David .Was glad to run into numbers of them .They've been avoiding me for awhile now

Correct on the rod Sam .The reel is a Pflueger Supreme .

The fishing was good Sam .That pipe inlet after a rain is a bonanza  anytime of year . 'Cept ice fishing time.