White perch?

[icefizzlemachizzle]

I'm taking some kids out for a day of fishing on lake that supposedly has a decent population of white perch.  Hopefully this is true and we can get some good action since they are supposed to be aggressive biters, but I have never targeted this species through the ice or open water. Any hints on how they behave in the winter and what they will likely hit?

[bib brother]

i catch them on the same jigs that i catch yellows on, and in the same spots.  small massachusetts ponds are my only ice experience with them though

[bigredonice]

in my experience, they are a main-lake basin fish that tend to inhabit similar areas as perch, except i have found that WP will stay closer to the base of the breaks and will tend to be near any structural elements. also the biggest WP i have caught were suspended, swimming in groups of 3 to 5 fish.

[Pasquatch]

White Perch are an odd fish, and seem to act like their cousins, stripers. They tend to hang out in deeper water than yellows alot of the time, and like Lance said, they hang near breaks.
                                                     

Yellows taste better!

               Wes

[fiesty]

Drill alot of holes, slow your jigging down, and fish first close to the bottom, then higher.  If the water is clear and you locate a school, you should do well, up here in Maine, we've got white perch all over, and there is not all that much of a trick to catching them.   We seem to have our best luck on pink and orange colors, like I said, with a slower jigging presentation then what we use for yellows....Good luck