sorry about the look on my face but the kid caught me with my eyes half shut when he took the picture. this 12+ inch jumbo came out of a 17 acre pond in northern michigan.
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sorry about the look on my face but the kid caught me with my eyes half shut when he took the picture. this 12+ inch jumbo came out of a 17 acre pond in northern michigan.
Nice one! Perch are SO pretty. I wish we had more of them here in the south.
Although I've never had one, I've heard they're delicious.
In Canada, we were told to stick our fingers down their throats and pop their air sack when we caught them and throw them back in the water. Pelicans, eagles, muskie, beavers...they all came and ate them. Don't know why, but we were told to do this with any one we caught, no matter what size.
Nice colors
Beavers??? Now I've seen a deer eating a fish before, but a beaver? And why would you throw back a fish that you've virtually killed by popping it's air bladder? Did they consider the yellow perch a trash fish? They are delishous!Quote:
Originally Posted by mrwillis
Great eating fish!
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Originally Posted by mrwillis
Nice fish.
That's some lip smacking good eating right there!
when you are only fishing in 8-10 feet of water the air sacks do not expand on the way up. That will generally only happen in water over 30 feet deep.
Nice perch! I'm targeting them this year....I think they are one of the coolest looking fish.
Man,i wish i had the guts to ice fish...I don't like the cold...lol
Maybe whoever told you that wanted you to throw them out so they could come by and get em!:DQuote:
Originally Posted by mrwillis
Nice perch and good eating!
That is a nice lookin pearch ya got there. I wish we had them out here in Cali. That would be fun. I have a question for ya. Are pearch a cold water fish? So we would find them in northern states and Canada?
nice perch, any perch over the 12" mark are nice jumbos.
Here is a 15"er I got last week on the ice. :D
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...022607_15a.jpg
:cool: Fish On! :eek:
Nice looking fish. Anyone have any advice on where I can catch some close to home?
Danville, Illinois
We have perch here in Oregon in the coastal lakes, which stay warmer most of the year. But somebody put some into Dorena Lake sometime lately, and they've been getting caught by surprised anglers. Not cool to stock fish without permission, but it's happened in almost every warm-water lake in this state!
they are in most of our rivers and lakes here in NY, and in mass #'s in places along with some average size days are over 10". They are fun to catch on light tackle. :D
We catch good numbers of pearch starting around Dec and last into march.Good eating and good fighters on the line. They are also good for the ounger ones to catch. Makes them sooooo happy.
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Lepomis, you have them in NORTHERN half of Ill... I wish they were in the southern half of Missouri and northern Arkansas... :cool: