Thread: White perch

This weekend I will be using a blade bait like this:

based on input from someone I know that has been jigging up a lot of them as well as bass and crappie. I have been using little grubs and those also work reasonably well if you can get them down there.

Originally Posted by hockey86

They are indeed eating machines. You can catch a tiny perch on a large bass minnow that barely fits in their mouth. I caught a couple on Sat. that literally had 2 or 3 small crappie minnows in it's mouth plus the one I was fishing with. I plan to start keeping them all and doing just like you and filleting the ones that I can.

I once saw a disturbance on the surface of a pond I lived on. Took my canoe out and discovered two bass locked together. The larger one - about 7 inches long had the head of another bass - about 5 inches long in his mouth and they were locked by the gill plates. I was able to separate them and the smaller one had wear marks across his head from the teeth of the other. Strange, but true!

Anyone know where to look on Falls Lake for white perch this time of year? I want to catch some for catfish bait, so they don't have to be that large. Just need to find where there are high numbers so I can get plenty for bait.

I know where to cast net gizzards shad on falls this time of year if that would help. We catch perch everywhere we go on falls does not seem to matter the time of year.

If there are shad there are always perch below them. Net the shad, hook one and drop it below the bait ball - boom. Or just drop a small jig through the bait ball.

fliesforall, I would be interested in where the abundance of gizzards are. I have castnetted 1000s of shad out of falls, but most of them are normally little peanut shad that I toss back. Would love to be able to get on some decent sized shad.

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Originally Posted by SEA DANCER

If you have freezer room they make very good tomato food in the spring. Bury them around the plant when you set them out.

I did that one year and got bony tomatoes.