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IceShanty Main => General Ice Fishing Chit Chat => Topic started by: Oagie on Dec 22, 2003, 02:26 PM
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This one made me laugh. While doing some jigging for pike with a 5 of diamonds spoon. My brother hooked about an 8 inch perch. As we were all laughing and thinking how much of a fluke it was, he lands another minutes later.
I jigged most of the day with all sorts of little jigs and never had more than a couple. I even tried a trout sized 5 of diamonds and didn't get anything. With those 2 fish he also had half a dozen more bites.
I didn't know that perch would hit something that big.
(http://img6.photobucket.com/albums/v19/oagie/marty_perch2.jpg)
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Yup perch will do that its kinda funny when they do. This summer at Black Lake I caught one on a 3/4 ounce spinnerbait fishing fo pike
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Have had 7-8 inch perch inhale all 3 hooks on a #4 treble that was hooked to a 3/4 oz. pimple. Perch can definitely have eyes bigger than their stomachs.
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maybe you should try something bigger for the jumbos ;D its never happened fishing for perch but i've had it happen fishing for northerns while jigging the old faithful daredevil--whacked a bunch of walleye-go figure ;D ;D :'( :'(
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I think we all have had perch take a minnow on a tip-up almost as large as it was. And then sometimes they only want a #12 jig or such. I think they will eat anything at times.
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When smaller spoons or jigs don't work, I often rig a large dropper spoon with a 1" pumpkinseed grub on a 1/64 oz. jighead for those types of fish. You jig it aggressively and they wack the spoon half the time, but the other time they wack the grub. 1 1/2" tubes work well too. No time for bait, you don't want them to inspect it but react. You can really ice some jumbos this way.
I once caught a nice yellow perch on the Lower Potomac during a bass tournament on a 1/2 oz. chartreuse buzzbait on my first cast of the morning. Thought for sure I had boated a keeper largemouth for the weigh in until I saw the yellow and bars... wasn't disappointed though, it was fun and I'll never forget it. Funny thing, same log, 3 casts later caught a 4 lb. channel cat on the same log... and not a bass on that log all day!
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I've caught them on #7 pimples.
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During the summer, I was trolling a Rapala Shad rap for walleyes, caught a perch that was smaller than the Shad rap. They are fiesty critters, and hit some strange things sometimes.
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I caught a bluegill on a zara spook, now that was one aggresive fish.
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Beat this -
1 in bass on a 4in crankbait. No idea how, but through the lip.
stupid green carp :>) A walleye would be smarter than that. . .
Paul
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While fishing Little York my buddy caught a 22" Brown on a 1/4 oz. spinner bait fish for bass.