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Hi - we're pretty new to the LKW area. Want to take my kids out perch fishing for hopefully a lot of action. Any pointers you guys can give me? Perch fishing is new to me. Our boat is docked at harbortown on the south fork, so ideally would like to stay north of buster boyd bridge.
Looks like a couple of you guys crush it out there, so any info at all is appreciated!
Thanks!
going in the morning, if you go up from busterboy, to mill creeks, there are perch all around up there, main lake points and humps on mainlake, river channel drop offs. I'll be there in the morning if its not raining. worms about a foot off bottom or minnows.
Small cans of mackerel with 1/16 in holes is the golden ticket
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Surely youre not baiting are you Brett?!?:biggrin:biggrin:biggrin
Butch ,baiting is legal in SC, oh wait that's for deer,( I ain't sure about the fish):RoflQuote:
Originally Posted by gabowman
Todd I'm sure you will get plenty of pointers from the perch fishermen on here. There's a lot of helpful info shared. You will enjoy this site and I look foreword to seeing you and your kids with some perch pictures.
Dieter melhorn fishes Wylie and has some perch videos on YouTube if you care look for them
Crappie minnows & small spoons are also good for perch. We get the most bites fishing just off the bottom in 15 to 25'. Often, spots that would hold bass are a good place to start. End of points & humps are good. If you run out of bait, cut the perch up into small pieces & use them for bait. Perch will eat almost anything but sometimes they are picky.
Good luck.
Thanks guys!
Yeah I watched some of Dieter's videos, and they pointed me to the rig and baits to try. Will also try some of the suggestions here. But my challenge has been finding them. We drove around this past weekend looking on the fish finder and didn't seem to come across any big schools that were obvious to me. So I'll try the area around mill creek and see what I can find there. Thanks for the suggestions! If you have any other spots you think are worth trying, please let me know!
We have a great population of white perch on Clarks Hill, and I've spent a good amount of time finding and catching them. But they can be extremely hard to spot at time on the graph. Many times after finding them on an earlier trip, I've returned to the same area and seen little to nothing...maybe a couple of small "bumps" along the bottom. But when I dropped a minnow or spoon, the bite was immediate. After catching a couple, the graph is often "lit up" with a cloud of them. They were nearly invisible before the first couple bit and got the school active. So my advice would be to try a few areas with small minnows, whether you see much or not. Perch are typically pretty aggressive, and you'll know if they are there quickly. Good luck!
We found all of ours on Saturday on channel ledges or drop offs. 90% of ours came in 18-25'. If you are taking the kids, be sure to bring a fish towel to grab your fish with. The fins on the gills will get ya every time.
Minnows work best for bait for us, but I like to use little pieces of cut perch. It seems to stay on longer. Good luck, hope the kids have a blast.
Just what he said, they will be so close to the bottom that you want notice them, if you have down imaging, you will see them, once you catch one or two they will come up off the bottom and fill the depth finder up! Before down imaging it was hard for me to find them sometimes.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fisher-o-Men
This morning I found them just above mills creek on the left in the mouth of the next little creek in 18 to 20 feet of water, caught about 20 in ten minutes and left. On worms. I hate minnows, want use them.
I totally agree that down scan helps a ton to find them. It really helps me distinguish them from bait, because perch and shad often look similar on traditional sonar. usually they are right on the bottom but if you ever see a "Christmas tree" of them coming up off the bottom you have found the mother load. I went to Greenwood Saturday afternoon and we caught 70 to 80 before dark on little 1/4 oz jigging spoons on ultralight spin. It was a lot of fun.