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Here's a closeup of mine with the tape measure. It was the real McCoy. Nothing that big since. If I would have caught here in April instead of February she would have weighed at least 3 lbs with more fully developed egg mass. (Image removed from quote.)
That is one beautiful PERCH :thumbsup:How deep of water where you in and what were you using. Hopefully you were jigging and it didn,t hit a dead line. That would have like pulling a hub Cap. Good Job!
They get some of those out of the bays of Lake Ontario on occasion.Around the Simcoe region or Where . Do you fish for them or just fish walleye and if you catch a perch its a bonus.
For the record, I have caught Yellow Perch with very vivid red fins, which kinda throws a wrench into the whole "Red fins = European Perch" thing.
The pond is only about 11 feet deep max. Fish was a couple of feet off the bottom and I took her on a rosey red fathead below a slip bobber. I caught three perch and the other two guys out there with me couldn't even catch one.
yeh, did u read how much stuff IGFA requires.u need to prepare big time to make a claim.and the big catch most of the time is only once in the lifetime opportunity.U don't know when,where,if u gonna have it or not. i'm sure u caught a lot of big fish ,but did u ever try to claim it somewhere not even IGFA.It's all about a time and money and not everyone can afford it especially in other countries.
Anyone can file a world record weather its joe blow out on the pond or some rich slob. The only thing that it requires is time.
Nice to see the maturity level is up there