Home made perch bait

[montanahardwater]

Any body else have a recipe for perch bait?

Gold fish food, 1 Fish oil pill juice mix it up with a little flour. make dough balls like carp and catfish bait.
Ya dont need to make much. I keep mine in an old power bait jar. some times just the scent on a little twistie tail or a fuzzy grub will get the FRENZY going. I have also picked up trout on this.

[The Busdriver]

Is the fish oil pill Omega 3?

[Bullelk34]

Not a recipe, but I've been using tiny strips of bacon fat the past few years and there are days the perch really go for it.

[laclabiche walleye hunter]

Not a recipe, but I've been using tiny strips of bacon fat the past few years and there are days the perch really go for it.

X2 on the bacon sometimes they realy get into it other days not so much.

[quinn]

once I noticed when i was eating a shrimp ring that theres some leftover shrimp meat in the tail ends of all the shrimp. so i decided to take the meat out which was very easy to do. i tried it out with the perch the next day and it worked very well.  They had some troubles getting the meat actually off the hook so i wasn't rebaiting my hook all the time.

[montanahardwater]

Omega 3  we give it to our lab to help with the shedding and he loves them as a treat.

[Idahogator]

A little strip of perch belly with the end split gets 'em too. Not really home made, does ice made count, ha. And the best is eyes.     

[Rebelss]

once I noticed when i was eating a shrimp ring that theres some leftover shrimp meat in the tail ends of all the shrimp. so i decided to take the meat out which was very easy to do. i tried it out with the perch the next day and it worked very well.  They had some troubles getting the meat actually off the hook so i wasn't rebaiting my hook all the time.

I've used the cans of tiny cocktail shrimp for years. Doesn't seem to matter if it's fresh or canned to the fish. Tell 'em Charlie sent ya. 

[kasilofchrisn]

Much Much better than the cocktail shrimp is Raw uncooked shrimp.
Stays on way way better and doesnt fall apart like the cocktail variety. A lot of lakes have tiny freshwater shrimp in them and I am guessing they must taste/smell the same.
I cut them up into small pieces at home and even paying $6 a pound when not on sale I think they end up costing $.01 per bait.
They actually look a lot like a Custon Jigs and Spins Shrimpo jig. In the lakes around where I live I have had them pop out when drilling holes in the ice and I plunge the auger through.

[SeisMec]

In the lakes around where I live I have had them pop out when drilling holes in the ice and I plunge the auger through.

I've fished a couple of lakes like that, the bite there sucked all winter long and if you did catch something, when you go it on the ice they would just start spewing shrimp.

[Team Robinson]

I've fished a couple of lakes like that, the bite there sucked all winter long and if you did catch something, when you go it on the ice they would just start spewing shrimp.

Do you mean crawfish?. All I can imagine is salt water shrimp when I hear shrimp

[Idahogator]

Here ya go T Rob.       http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mysida         

[SeisMec]

Do you mean crawfish?. All I can imagine is salt water shrimp when I hear shrimp

Nope, shrimp.  Also known as Gammarus Shrimp, Scuds, Side Swimmers. There are two types of freshwater Shrimp, these are the Hyella shrimp and the Gammarus shrimp.

[Team Robinson]

New to me. Saw the link and did some more searching to get an education on these shrimp. Learned something.