Anyone familiar with Lake Tillery?

[r2002]

I heard it has some blueback hering and yellow perch. I am interested in both.

[cwright]

Never fished for either there. Grew up about 30 minutes from it and have caught a ton of white perch and crappie out of it. Caught a few yellow perch, but not enough to target them I wouldn't think. It is going to be hard to keep the white perch off long enough to catch one. Last time I went about 2 months ago, I got tired of catching perch. I kept 68 huge ones (probably caught twice that) and kept moving to try to get off of them. Finally found a few crappie at the end.

[r2002]

With that many white perch, yellow perch probably go like white bass: close to extinction.

Never fished for either there. Grew up about 30 minutes from it and have caught a ton of white perch and crappie out of it. Caught a few yellow perch, but not enough to target them I wouldn't think. It is going to be hard to keep the white perch off long enough to catch one. Last time I went about 2 months ago, I got tired of catching perch. I kept 68 huge ones (probably caught twice that) and kept moving to try to get off of them. Finally found a few crappie at the end.

[cwright]

You are right. And even though there are still a lot of crappie in Tillery, they make fishing with minnows tough. I almost always use jigs or crank baits just to limit the white perch.

[Feel-N-Crappie]

We definitely have yellow perch although they are not as many as I'd like to see. My brother catches them regularly on Lake Erie. Great eating fish. Most are very small, I have caught them up to 12"/13". A minnow fished close to the bottom. My brother and I feel there could be large schools in deeper water. He'll be down this spring, he knows how they show up on sonar.

[Feel-N-Crappie]

Tillery also has Smallmouth Bass which get into the lake primarily from the Uwharrie River. I caught a three pound SM there about two years ago.