Jumbo perch?

[Longwooddrive]

What do you guys consider a jumbo perch?  Reason I ask is, on another site a guy is claiming he caught an 18 inch perch?  Do they get this big?  He is also claiming he saw a guy land a 36 inch chain pickeral....?  Any thoughts

[percheyes42]

Perch can get that big, but he may have had a rubber tape measure. I consider 10 -12 inch perch "JUMBOS." Once you get over 12" they're "SUMOS."

[fishmaster2004z]

i got one 16inchs but it was from a farm pond

[perch-man]

There is another thread of this on ice shanty chit chat. Yellow perch dont usally get much more than 16 1\4 ins long . Manitoba record is 16ins ,Master angler is 13 . If this guy caught one he should have a picture with correct measurement.

[Swift]

Want a picture on that one. Have caught ONE 15 1/4" and a couple of 14" in my life, but consider anything over 10" on my smallish type waters a jumbo.

[perch-man]

Ya I ,m with you Swift my biggest 15 1\ 4  and its mounted at my work place. jumbos are over 12.5 to 14  . You get perch over a foot long is what I like to hunt for  

[pikekiller]

I'm not an avid perch angler, but I do a fair amount of jigging while watching my tipups.  I've only caught a few over 12".  they are jumbos in anyone's book.  if anyone tells you a foot-long perch isn't jumbo, they are blowing smoke.  that's what I gather here in northern NY anyway.

[happy perch fisher]

lol was that guy smoking or eating or drinking anything wierd when he caught that perch

[JAZII]

THESE ARE JUMBOS 13" or BIGGER
Perch in my left hand 15.5"  Perch in my right hand 15.75"
            2 Lbs. 4 Oz.                2 Lbs. 5 Oz.

[radzicto]

Depends on the lake and the school you are catching them from. Private lake here in NJ with my buddy, he had 20 and I had 18. Two of mine were just shy of a pound. The other 16 went up the scale to a 16.5 at 1.93 lbs.
They are out there. The hard part is we no longer have access to that perch bonanza.

[JAZII]

Depends on the lake and the school you are catching them from. Private lake here in NJ with my buddy, he had 20 and I had 18. Two of mine were just shy of a pound. The other 16 went up the scale to a 16.5 at 1.93 lbs.
They are out there. The hard part is we no longer have access to that perch bonanza.

How about some pics of those 16.5" perch?
I have seen pics of one on here.(taxidermist1)
The other is my buddies, he has it mounted. I might be able to get some pics of it.
16.5 and only 1.93 lbs. is kind of skinny.
JAZII

[Scientist]

You know ignorance is bliss. The state record for NJ is 4lb 4 oz.; so when I caught a 2lb 9 oz perch 6 years back I thought nothing of it other than NICE fish. Figured got almost a whole lb to go to beat the record. I just checked the NJ DFG&W page and now the state record is 2 lb 6 oz and the four pound one is considered a historical record. When the H3LL is they change it? I felt so much better knowing that I ate a nice fish and not one that could have been the current state record. Now I’m regretting that I did not get it mounted. 

[perch-man]

Scientist all I can say to that is OUCH!!!!!