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I oughta take you to a pond in Cape Elizabeth Me. Where their wild and huge! Haven't got a clue what their eating to make them so big. I'm talking 15" average. Me and a friend iced about 30 or so on tip-ups. Imagine jigging! Not a lot of pressure there. But have good access to it . Start a perch guide service maybe? FH
DNR Or here it's IFW (Inland Fisheries and Wildlife) Don't even look after this pond as far as I know. Don't really think their non-native, just very thick in a lot of ponds to the point where some times that's all you catch. No complaints when we are targeting them. Chew up a lot of bait! Rich
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Not Really, different species. It is a Red Fin, not a yellow perch. I wish we had them here though!JAZII
I just looked up the State record Yelllow Perch in Michigan on the DNR site. Caught in Lk Independence 1947 3.75 lbs 21"
Is there a pic of this fish anywhere that anyone know's of?
how comes NY has only won the perch category once since it began? Just think if PA had any big water besides lake erie to fish for numbers of perch. we do not have those big bodies of water that are just full of alwives and smelt for the perch to get big on. If we we had a few big waters teaming with lots of forage and some perch we we would blow any state out of the water. We manage to get perch just as big with the smaller bodies of water that we got and judging from from past tourneys and this years tourney so far ours are looking bigger
You guys do put a couple decent ones on the ice once in a while, but where are the numbers? Aside from Jazz's pics from about 6 years ago that keep popping up, I have yet to see you PA guys post pics of consistant piles of jumbos like our NY waters. When you have world class trout, salmon, walleye, musky, and pike waters around, as well as some of the best bass waters in the country (BASS Elite series comes here to several bodies of water), the perch often get overlooked and taken for granted. Most of the diehards that fish them up here rather fillet and release them in hot oil rather than take a pic and enter them into an online tourney. I don't mean to sound like a jerk but that is the way it is up here.....too many fish and not enough time. If the Finger Lakes pics weren't enough, here is more porn from a bay down the road......http://www.attheoak.net/perch2008b.htmlenjoy!
and apart from the st lawaurence, the niagra river, and lake otisco there are no other worldclass musky waters.
I have not seen any pics of truly world class pike,
30 pound king is not world class
what would NYs perch be like if you were in the same boat as PA and did not have the big water. I dont think there would be hardly any pics of BIG piles of perch at all...
You guys do put a couple decent ones on the ice once in a while, but where are the numbers? Aside from Jazz's pics from about 6 years ago that keep popping up, I have yet to see you PA guys post pics of consistant piles of jumbos like our NY waters. When you have world class trout, salmon, walleye, musky, and pike waters around, as well as some of the best bass waters in the country (BASS Elite series comes here to several bodies of water), the perch often get overlooked and taken for granted. Most of the diehards that fish them up here rather fillet and release them in hot oil rather than take a pic and enter them into an online tourney. I don't mean to sound like a jerk but that is the way it is up here.....too many fish and not enough time. If the Finger Lakes pics weren't enough, here is more porn from a bay down the road......http://www.attheoak.net/perch2008b.htmlenjoy!that is simply awesome!!! wow the most jumbos I've ever seen in any one picture....i wish one time in my life i could get a limit like that.thanks for showing this
I do not post pics of "piles of Slammer Perch" anymore for a few reasons. I will e-mail you all the pics you would care to see. J A Z I I