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Most of the time perch go to bed when it gets dark. I have watched em on my aquaview at Lake George at dusk and you can just see em set the fins and slink back down in the sandgrass and they don't and won't bite after it gets dark in my experience. Some guys say they have caught em and from what I have witnessed with the camera I can't imagine they are too aggressive after dark but I have heard of guys catching them after dark. Perch feed by sight mostly not smell that's why they only usually bite during the day. They may have highly developed sense of smells but they feed by sight. One more thing, if you have not spent some time watching large schools of perch or individuals on an aqua view you really would be surprised at how they behave. I learned more about perch last winter with my camera than I could have learned in fishing 30 years without one. What's going on down there is not what you think until you see it.
for you and what lake you fish,it works for you that is what countsi have seen some guys stating they have got perch at night in over 55years of ice fishing i have never got one at night but that doesnot mean they didnot everybody does thing different,i would love to see how theydo RAT
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I think Ill disagree with them feeding at noon. 90% of the time I find them feeding better the first couple of hours. Just my 2 cents.
I dont fish for them and have caught them at all hours after dark. They usually start at dark for about 1 hour and then shut off till 9, then back on and off throughout the dark hours. I'm fishing for crappie and get long runs of perch in total darkness. Its not that im doing anything special,cause their buggin me and i dont want them. It all depends on what body of water you are fishing.Just remember you cant generalize everything. Example: I took my neighbor who is a Lake walleye expert out(open water fishing) and i had a long cast (river fishin) that no sooner hit the water and a good size fish jumped up and back down for a good fight. I said ''theres one''. He said ''no way, walleyes dont jump''. OK, i kept my mouth shut and a minute later pulled up a nice walleye.Cool huh?
taxidermist, i was fishing a 1/2 oz. spinnerbait in the lily pads in the Hudson river was there was a wild thrashing,jumpin yellowish orange largemouth bass on the lure.I fianally got here in and it was a big slob perch. I could have sworn it was a largemoth till i had it in my hands.
nice perch taxidermist so u grow them fish in your own ponds how many ponds do u have