Thread: Wishful thinking

Maybe you should ask Uncle Remus to do some experimenting on his blue attack trained perch minnows. I know his are trained to tread water for days and grab the perch by the neck and retrieve them back to the boat with out bruising the perch. I'm sure he could modify them to catch just crappie. He has a few that do it by mistake and he punishes them by placing them in a large school of hungry perch by themselves. Really got a good fight on the line then.

This is not 100% of the time but what I have noticed.
1. Fish off the bottom you will get perch most of time.
2. Deep of winter you can get Crappie deep on bottom with Perch. Main channel you can catch crappie and perch 50 feet deep.
3. I don't tight line much but I am going to do more of that this year. Middle of the water column should catch more crappie than perch. Dedicated tight liners could chime in.
4. When I longline tip with minnows or no minnows 90% are crappie.

General speaking perch will be deeper than crappie. I have seen sometimes perch caught in a crappie school or in a brush pile.

So what I see to catch less perch is tightline, longline or a brushpile. Of course Uncle Remus might gives us the wisdom on how to train the attack minnows.

When I go after perch I fish 100% on bottom in the desired depth I need to be. I hope this helps.

You are spot on CK about the crappie being higher in the water column. They tend to do strange things though. Sometimes they get right in there with the perch. Just how hungry they get at times I guess. Best thing about tight lining you can hit all depths, if you got the right speed and weight. Cover more area when doing this and if you find a honey hole you can circle it or spot lock over them. Just bumping around works good too! Good info to go by CK! Thanks

Originally Posted by BigDawgg

You are spot on CK about the crappie being higher in the water column. They tend to do strange things though. Sometimes they get right in there with the perch. Just how hungry they get at times I guess. Best thing about tight lining you can hit all depths, if you got the right speed and weight. Cover more area when doing this and if you find a honey hole you can circle it or spot lock over them. Just bumping around works good too! Good info to go by CK! Thanks

Another thing I tried last time red worms for perch like you told me Dawgg. Got lots of perch Now here is the funny thing after we had our fill of perch we hit brushpiles. I tipped my jigs with red worms and guess what I was only catching in the brush. Bream. I was laughing that one. I am going to try that again and see if was just a one off.