Caught a first, for me at least.

[JohnP]

Started out targeting crappie and after 2 hours of fighting the wind in a 18 ft aluminum boat only had one keeper out of a couple dozen crappie.  Moved to boat dock that I had pulled a few keepers out of last week.  Pulled a few more shorties out of it but was surprised when I reeled in a yellow perch, my first.  Decided to switch to Bass mode shortly after that and focused on windy points and transition banks the wind was blowing into.  Beat the banks with cranks (wiggle warts) and ended up catching a dozen or so bass.  The 3 bigger ones went for a ride for the photo op with the yellow and then released all back at the ramp healthy.  

 

[Nitro 750]

Good job John, nice fish!!!!!  Congrats on your first yellow perch.

[rps]

Yellow perch are great! I wouldn't mind if they showed up in Table Rock. Just saying.

[aarchdale@coresleep.com]

Thats a pretty good sized one too.   Ive caught a few up there but usually pretty small

[mmirg]

 That is a very nice yellow perch.  Anything over 8" is big for BS in my experience.   We caught 8 of them last week and only one of them was over 8".  We were bottom bouncing night crawlers for walleye and big bluegill. 

[Fish24/7]

nice fish all of them !

that is a fat perch!

glad to see they (perch)haven't spawned yet!

I don't know why but after the spawn I never catch any the rest of the year,lol.

[vonreed]

I'd be interested in how deep you guys are catching the yellow perch?  And what type of bottom?  Rock or mud flats?

[JohnP]

16 hours ago, vonreed said:

I'd be interested in how deep you guys are catching the yellow perch?  And what type of bottom?  Rock or mud flats?

That fish came out of boat stall in about 18 ft of water back in Yokum.  Unknown on the type of bottom but guessing rock/silt bottom.  Caught on a white and chartreuse soft plastic 3/16th oz crappie jig.

[mmirg]

We were getting a few yellow perch in 23' of water, next to a mud flat.  We caught them right on the bottom dragging a simple split shot rig with a whole night crawler.   I'm guessing the bottom wasn't very rocky since we didn't get hung up a whole lot.  

[vonreed]

Thanks guys, One of these days I'm gonna figure out how to catch these little beauties reliably.  It always just seems like hit or miss.  A lot of mine have come off of wood structure on the bottom.