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Lots of folks around the Midwest refer to various sunfish family members as "perch", which many us know is not quite correct.  Of course what we refer to as "bass" are not true bass either, they are members of the sunfish family along with bluegill, longears, crappie etc.  Perch family includes walleye and yellow perch.  We all pretty much know what is being talked about when someone talks abut perch, except fir the occasional yankee.  Now having grown up catching tons of bluegill and "black perch" green sunfish I often still call them perch, of course I often call walleye "jack salmon" too, why?  Well why not, referring to them that way brings back memories of fishing with my father in the "old days".  

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1 hour ago, snagged in outlet 3 said:

We always referred to walleye as jack salmon if they are river fish.  in a lake its a walleye.

Don't know why.

Sometimes I think "jack salmon" meant the old-timers were referring to Sauger ( ??? ) which don't get as large as the real Walleye but are more commonly caught in the warmer Rivers.  I've caught both by accident, Walleye in TR and Sauger in the lower Meramec, and the Sauger is fugly with a mottled or multi-colored skin compared to the closely related Walleye.

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Don't know how where or why that Jack Salmon thing ever got started and the biologist laugh at it as the walleye is not even remotely in the salmonid family.  I have heard it referring to walleye since I was a kid.  I think its a Ozark thing. 

There is a Jack Salmon however and it is an early returning male King Salmon that has returned to fresh water to soon and is usually very small

On the perch, sunfish or what ever you want to call the spiny little rascals, they really get going here the 1st of July usually under 20' on the gravel runnouts

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Probably a bit early for this, but with this heat it might be soon....find a good long main lake gravel point, that stays fairly shallow (15-30ft) way out into the lake.  Idle around there looking at your graph for little squiggly lines (technical term) just off the bottom. Those are bluegill.  Use a split shot with a worm or cricket (tiny jigs and spoons also work).  Once you find them they are super easy to catch.  

Those same types of points are pretty much where to fish all summer long.  Bass, whites, walleye, catfish, and bluegill all hang out on those points during the summer.  

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In theory this is prime time for the spawn, in reality you never know. 

His father touches the Claw in spite of Kevin's warnings and breaks two legs just as a thunderstorm tears the house apart. Kevin runs away with the Claw. He becomes captain of the Greasy Bastard, a small ship carrying rubber goods between England and Burma. Michael Palin, Terry Jones, 1974

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