Yellow Perch 2024

Great looking water/ pics! Sounds like a great fishing trip.. Congrats

Lovely spot, to be sure. I've only caught perch recently on "accident" while targeting bass.

Of course these buggers will bite a variety of lures....

Caught my share, though, up to 2 pounds (huge)!

They are beautiful fish, hard fighters and truly excellent table fare.  If the bass fishing is tough, or I'm looking for a relaxing change of pace, I often stop at a spot I know of and throw a little beetle spin on an ultra-light spinning rig for yellow perch and crappies.

That's a pretty spot where you were fishing.

Tight lines,

Bob

No perch around here unfortunately. Pretty fish, easy to catch, and good eating!

there's a lake here in maine called "long lake" and it has lake trout, salmon, brooke trout and yes YELLOW PERCH. infested if you ask me haha, me and my friend wanted to stock our freezers with em' for winter and we went out there at 7AM to the same spot they're always at and caught 75 within that hour. once the frenzy was over we left. a little crappie crankbait and ultra light spinning outfit will catch perch after perch at their feeding hour.

_{cleaning all that fish was the worst part of the trip haha}

I caught this one a couple of years ago on Oneida, it looked like it had been dipped in JJ's! Amazing green/blue/chartreuse colour to it. The picture doesn't really do it justice! 

  On 11/12/2014 at 10:55 AM, Alonerankin2 said:

Great looking water/ pics! Sounds like a great fishing trip.. Congrats

Thanks! It was awesome^5

  On 11/12/2014 at 10:57 AM, DarrenM said:

Lovely spot, to be sure. I've only caught perch recently on "accident" while targeting bass.

 

Of course these buggers will bite a variety of lures....

 

Caught my share, though, up to 2 pounds (huge)!

so true! I caught every fish on a different lure.lol That is huge and a heck of a catch!

  On 11/12/2014 at 11:36 AM, desmobob said:

They are beautiful fish, hard fighters and truly excellent table fare.  If the bass fishing is tough, or I'm looking for a relaxing change of pace, I often stop at a spot I know of and throw a little beetle spin on an ultra-light spinning rig for yellow perch and crappies.

 

That's a pretty spot where you were fishing.

 

Tight lines,

Bob

You said it perfectly..I had no idea what to expect in that pond. I thought it might be bass or bust. When I saw them swarm my lure I was really pumped. I knew right then it would be a fun day of fishing. If yellow perch are biting, I can't resist dropping any original plans and just fishing for them on my UL as you mentioned.lol 

  On 11/12/2014 at 4:51 PM, Bluebasser86 said:

No perch around here unfortunately. Pretty fish, easy to catch, and good eating!

I'll trade you some of my yellow perch for those big bass you got out there :-P I don't eat them but have heard they are tasty.

  On 11/13/2014 at 6:03 AM, FunkJishing said:

there's a lake here in maine called "long lake" and it has lake trout, salmon, brooke trout and yes YELLOW PERCH. infested if you ask me haha, me and my friend wanted to stock our freezers with em' for winter and we went out there at 7AM to the same spot they're always at and caught 75 within that hour. once the frenzy was over we left. a little crappie crankbait and ultra light spinning outfit will catch perch after perch at their feeding hour.

Wow that is a chitload of fish in an hour! sounds like you had a pretty large tight school of them. I broke out a small crappie sized crankbait but I only got a few casts right before I had to split. Do you ever have issues with them inhaling the smaller crankbait? I smash the barbs on my cranks but even so, the smaller ones I know will work great but those perch tend to try and inhale everything they go after. I release them and hate to have to deal with an inhaled crankbait. 

  On 11/13/2014 at 6:23 AM, Tim Kelly said:

 

I caught this one a couple of years ago on Oneida, it looked like it had been dipped in JJ's! Amazing green/blue/chartreuse colour to it. The picture doesn't really do it justice! 

Awesome perch! And I agree, pics don't do them justice. I lived in quite a few different areas of this state and never caught or seen yellow perch. Only since I moved where I currently am did I start catching them. In fact it was the first fish I caught and I had no idea what it was, I just knew it looked amazing! it quickly became one of my favorite fish to catch

I've heard a lot about how good they taste... I'd love to try some one day!

They only taste as good as the water they came from. The ones from my home lake (Silver) are very good, that is if you can sort through the 33 billion dinks to catch enough keepers worth keeping. They taste like POOP from watersheds where oily bait fish like alewives, etc....are a major part of the food chain.

_{they taste great, but yes the better the water quality the tastier they'll look lol the water i fish them in is crystal clear. and guitarglynn1 sometimes, but i keep the needle nose handy. especially because yellow perch are super sharp lol they'll tear you up if you aren't careful.}

here's the flick...

Perch are fun to catch and make great eating!!!!  Also any time you're trying to get a kid into fishing put them into a mess of perch and you'll get them hooked on fishing, just make sure to show them how to handle them so they don't get pricked!!  My grand daughter learned the hard way about not listening to Grandpa!! LOL

Two pound perch are a myth. 

So are four pounders.

And even fiver pounders....

Not yellow perch, but close.

Zonkers!  Now we'll have to pull out the zander pics to really knock their socks off. 

Those really are remarkable and if they aren't yellow perch, can I ask where, what, when and how?

LOL

They're European perch. The five is 5lb 4oz. The UK record is only 6lb 2oz I believe, so it was a big one! In northern Europe (Holland , Sweden, Denmark I believe they can get as big as 7-8lb. I'd like one of those!

  On 11/14/2014 at 4:49 AM, Tim Kelly said:

LOL

 

They're European perch. The five is 5lb 4oz. The UK record is only 6lb 2oz I believe, so it was a big one! In northern Europe (Holland , Sweden, Denmark I believe they can get as big as 7-8lb. I'd like one of those!

Nice, thanks for the explanation.  I've always found perch to be my favorites and tell people quite honestly that I'd just as soon catch big, really, really big, yellow perch as anything else, bass, walleye, salmon, you name it.  I once saw a Youtube video of someone in Scandinavia catching some real honker perch, I guess at the time I didn't realize that there was a genetic distinction between them and what we have here in the states.

  On 11/14/2014 at 4:10 AM, Tim Kelly said:

So are four pounders.

 

And even fiver pounders....

 

 

Not yellow perch, but close.

Love those redfin perch.

I recently tied some tiny 1/32oz. hair jigs specifically for yellow perch. Results were pretty good, with a few decent sized ones. This is the largest so far this year. 

And the hair jig that I caught them on. 

  On 11/14/2014 at 5:07 AM, GANGGREEN said:

Nice, thanks for the explanation.  I've always found perch to be my favorites and tell people quite honestly that I'd just as soon catch big, really, really big, yellow perch as anything else, bass, walleye, salmon, you name it.  I once saw a Youtube video of someone in Scandinavia catching some real honker perch, I guess at the time I didn't realize that there was a genetic distinction between them and what we have here in the states.

Bill, I've got a pretty good shot of you (I think Rob J took it that day) from many moons ago.  That was a fun day!!

This was a fun day too.

Yeah, as I recall, Rob J and I were getting doubles all day long and most were nice ones.  We took exactly half a limit, though we caught three times that many.  Fun.

Perch hitting big jerkbaits.

Nice Dwight.  I had a pretty nice day on Erie this spring in what is shallow water by Erie perch standards.  I was trying to catch some late spring, early summer smallmouth and got smallies and big perch fishing smallie tactics.  Fun.

  On 11/14/2014 at 6:00 AM, GANGGREEN said:

Nice Dwight.  I had a pretty nice day on Erie this spring in what is shallow water by Erie perch standards.  I was trying to catch some late spring, early summer smallmouth and got smallies and big perch fishing smallie tactics.  Fun.

That's exactly what we experienced several times this spring. The perch were scattered chasing down schools of emeralds in 20-30 fow. The crazy part of it was the perch were hitting full sized smithwick rogues 6" model deep divers.

  On 11/14/2014 at 5:33 AM, wnybassman said:

Bill, I've got a pretty good shot of you (I think Rob J took it that day) from many moons ago.  That was a fun day!!

 

That's a beautiful stringer of perch!

Years ago, I was in a bait shop in maybe Schroon Lake, NY? and they had a stringer of really huge yellow perch hanging on the wall that some taxidermist did an excellent job on.

I've caught some whoppers in Lake George over the years while fishing for smallies.

Tight lines,

Bob

I get a lot of them on a LC 78.

I tie a  1/8 jig,avocado/with a spritz of orange and do well with  it.

They eat a large variety of lures including silver buddies. 

C22

  On 11/14/2014 at 8:23 AM, desmobob said:

That's a beautiful stringer of perch!

 

Years ago, I was in a bait shop in maybe Schroon Lake, NY? and they had a stringer of really huge yellow perch hanging on the wall that some taxidermist did an excellent job on.

 

I've caught some whoppers in Lake George over the years while fishing for smallies.

 

Tight lines,

Bob

If I'm not mistaken, that stringer shows 25 fish.  I suspect that I caught 75 or more that day.  It was just wild.  Myself and another fellow were in my boat.  I don't recall whether we called to the rear guard by radio or if Noel and our other buddies simply stumbled onto us and saw the bent rods but it was a banner day, one that I'll likely never forget. 

Almost that time of year again..."football" season.

That fish makes my mouth water.   Nice fish!!

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