Red Ear Perches?

New to this site, but have enjoyed reading the posts. I to fish the crappies, mostly at Lake Cachuma. But my favorite is fishing for perch. I enjoy eating them much more than the crappie. Here is my PB http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j2...P4180001_1.jpg
She was 4.1 pounds, and I caught her about 5 years ago. I have caught many perch in my life, but my next biggest is slightly less then 3#. This board has a perch board, but not really pertaining to us out west. So, that being said, I thought I would start a link here, and see whats up in the other lakes you guys are fishing. On a side note, I caught 1 crappie this weekend accidently while trolling for trout. Good fishin Mikey

do they go by any other name i couldnt find any info on red ear perch and definately doesnt look like anything around here and doesnt look like our red ear sunfish

Nice fish. How do they tast? Welcome to the site.

Welcome from Indiana

That is a beautiful fish.

PS
The coffee pot is on

hey john thats a red eared bluegill. I got about a 2 pounded on my wall but sure nothing close to that! thats a pig!!!!

the colors threw me off ... thought was some weird calforny fish... the redears i see arent as silverish

looks like a florida shellcracker

Asked the taxidermy guy to paint it as it looks in spawn...they turn kinda irradescent black, so you have a hard time seeing em in the shallows. It IS a red ear sunfish officially, but the brothers do call em perch. We have a good supply of fresh water clams in the lake, and that is their main grazing food. Aren't there any Californians here that share my passion for catching these? Mikey

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Originally Posted by exfactor

Aren't there any Californians here that share my passion for catching these? Mikey

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Oh yea! Down here in San Diego I find them in San Vicente reservoir and over in the Colorado River near Yuma.

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Those are some nice fish guys, Good going. I haven't been perch fishing in years. Kinda got me thinking about it again, Thanks :)

That, my friend is a redear sunfish, aka shellcracker, chinquapin, and a slew of other aliases. And it's also a darned big redear. The state record here in NC where I live is 4 lbs, 6 oz,. so yours is definitely a hoss.
Congrats on the catch.

what about the rio grand perch

Very nice & huge redear.

what about the rio grand perch

that is a nice one! We call them shellcracker here in Georgia.

Wow, I can't believe only one Califorian replied to this post! I guess all the "in the know" guys are keeping their mouths shut. Solo recon for another year.

The Cali Board is usually slow. A lot of lookers but not to many post. Good luck on your recon. It has been slow up here on the central coast.

Redear Sunfish- those darn things are a pest around here(Virginia)when trying catch crappie.

I wish thats the kind of pest problems i had.:)

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Originally Posted by backtocrappie

Redear Sunfish- those darn things are a pest around here(Virginia)when trying catch crappie.

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