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[MOPanfisher]

I do believe walley are a perch also. Yeah I grew up calling, bluegill, green sunfish and a few others perch.  After a degree in wildlife biology I still find myself doing it occasionally.  Walleye are perch family, largmuth, smallmouth and spotted bass are in the sunfish family.  Confusing for a normal feller at times.

[Johnsfolly]

3 hours ago, MOPanfisher said:

I do believe walley are a perch also. Yeah I grew up calling, bluegill, green sunfish and a few others perch.  After a degree in wildlife biology I still find myself doing it occasionally.  Walleye are perch family, largmuth, smallmouth and spotted bass are in the sunfish family.  Confusing for a normal feller at times.

Stripers, white and yellow bass are true basses. Also darters are in the perch family. Like that is a surprise that I know that☺!

[MOPanfisher]

It's true, I had forgotten about the darters being in the Perch Family.  What that really means is that those darters should be delicious too.

[Hunter91]

Growing up in Louisiana, we called all bluegill type fish---bream and all crappie--white perch or sac-a-lait. Got to remember which part of the country you are in when talking fishing

[Harps]

In for updates...

[Johnsfolly]

21 hours ago, MOPanfisher said:

It's true, I had forgotten about the darters being in the Perch Family.  What that really means is that those darters should be delicious too.

Also they are ounce for ounce one of the strongest fighting fish out there☺! Next time I catch a couple (hundred) I'll let you know how they taste☺!

[lundone]

A couple of friends and I fished Bull Shoals in June and we caught enough Yellow Perch that I had better than a  qt bag of fillets to bring home.  We had caught them there before but never in the numbers and sizes that we got this year.  They were delicious!  It would seem that the introduction of yellow perch to Stockton would be a good thing.  Anyone on here know of a downside to their introduction?

 

[MoCarp]

They would prob do well in stockton but the state will never put any in, they don't know how they got into bull shoals ether......

[Quillback]

Might as well stock some gobies in Bull, then you'll have a Lake Erie south.  Zebra mussels, walleye, yellow perch, smallmouth - just need some gobies. 

Yellow perch are tasty, I'll take them over walleye.

[audiochem]

Out east, they call crappie 'calico's' and in southern Florida they call them "specks." All depends where you're from, I guess.