yellow perch

[robert paullin]

any perch fisherman at bull schoals? mail me at donnapau@artelco.com             bob

[Bluff-Bassin]

I caught one this fall in turkey creek while bass fishing on a square bill crank. I know next to nothing about em. How do you target then? Similar to crappie? 

[Tanderson15]

I'm from the north, and I think that's the best tasting fish fish more so than walleye, and that's all I fish for.

[moguy1973]

2 hours ago, Bluff-Bassin said:

I caught one this fall in turkey creek while bass fishing on a square bill crank. I know next to nothing about em. How do you target then? Similar to crappie? 

 

More like walleye I think.  We used to catch them on worms and a bobber when we visited family in Michigan when I was a kid.

[Sam]

I sure wish Yellow Perch would get well-established and grow to some size in Bull Shoals.  I sometimes catch one, very rarely, while crappie fishing - and they've all been real small.  Several years ago I caught my biggest one ever at 11" and kept it.  It wasn't really big enough but having read how good Yellow Perch are up north, I wanted to try one.  Yep, they're everything I'd heard - real good little filets, at least as tasty as walleye.

[Ham]

They are only a little less elusive than Bigfoot. I catch one every great now and again. I've never caught one approaching a size that a rational person would consider keeping. 

[MOPanfisher]

Never caught one on BS, honestly didn't know they were there and have fished there in years.  But ones I have caught in other places they are one of the best eating fish anywhere.  Between them, crappie, walleye, bluegill, and goggle eye I count eat myself to death probably.

[Dutch]

Just after the big white bass die off back in 02 we would catch some at the mouth of Cedar Creek nearly every outing.  While the whites were plentiful, we only ever caught 1.  Since the whites have made sort of a come back, we don't catch them any more.

[Quillback]

The lakes I fished in Massachusetts were thick with perch, problem was finding ones that were big enough to keep, they are excellent eating.  They usually are out a bit deeper than the bluegill and they like red worms.

[aarchdale@coresleep.com]

We caught a couple eating size last year trolling cranks around Beaver Creek