Sabiki Rigging

I have been working on perfecting this technique all summer and I have been quite entertained by it so far I thought I would share. While looking for brush piles on any of the Charlotte area lakes I usually stumble across a school of white perch at some point. The only way I have found to distinguish white perch from crappie is usually just the numbers in the schools as they look the same on the sonar. I catch mostly white perch doing this but occasionally get a few crappie as well. Usually, as soon as I spot them on the sonar I will put a gps point on them and quickly make a U turn. I takes some practice but I've got pretty good at getting on the school quick enough to get my sabiki rig, which stays ready, on them. I was surprised that even in shallow water they won't totally disperse until after I have marked them 2 or 3 times. Its almost a sure thing when I see them that you'll get 7-8 or every pull. Turns out they aren't too bad to eat either.

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I'm a catfisherman, I use that rig all the time, Perch are no problem to find once you figure it out. The perch stay tight to the bottom unless they are feeding heavy then they will school up like striper and they look some what like striper when they are schooling, I'm a striper fisher man too, so I know what each look like and I can tell the differents, I use a HDS 12 Gen 3 , it will show the perch on the bottom when other depth finders miss them. Crappie look different than perch on mine, I can tell most of the time when it is crappie, if you look at some of the pictures I have posted you will see the difference between the crappie and perch. When the perch are tight to the bottom and you get them to bite they will school up all at once. they will come up off the bottom.

Nice, I am still learning how to catch fish.

Love the sabiki rig, great way to catch a lot of fish. Yes they are great table fare and bait. If you have kids or wifes that arent patient, cut the rig in half , put 3 hooks on a line and let them have fun. I also tie gold hooks on the line about a foot apart and itll work just as good , put a piece of worm or perch on every other hook they are carnivorous and will eat anything. Great post . Everyone should spend a couple days a week filling a cooler with these fish , they are taking over every lake around here.