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Ice Fishing Tips -Check your local regulations! => Perch => Topic started by: italianice77 on Jan 02, 2017, 06:07 PM
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I built a couple of homemade tip-downs and was woundering if guys use them for perch and what do you use. Any info would be great....... :)thanks
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I have used homemade ones for 8 years for perch crappie all the panfish I mostly use a small jig tipped with a minnow
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No live bait use here.
Perch eye on # 12 treble, never misses.
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1/2 or 3/8oz egg sinker at the end of your line, snelled hook one foot above, and a second a foot above that if your state allows it... Rig with whatever live or natural bait you see fit and set so the sinker is just touching the bottom. Caught perch, walleyes, pike, crappie, and burbot on this rig.
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I routinely catch more keeper perch on my tip downs than I do jigging. Jigging seems to work if you like catching dinks, but I set my tip downs about 6 inches off the bottom with a fathead or rosie hooked through the back just ahead of its dorsal fin. Seems to keep most of the dinks away and is usually pretty effective at landing some keepers. If you hook the minnow too far back then you will miss a lot of hooks since fish seem to attack them head first.
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I routinely catch more keeper perch on my tip downs than I do jigging. Jigging seems to work if you like catching dinks, but I set my tip downs about 6 inches off the bottom with a fathead or rosie hooked through the back just ahead of its dorsal fin. Seems to keep most of the dinks away and is usually pretty effective at landing some keepers. If you hook the minnow too far back then you will miss a lot of hooks since fish seem to attack them head first.
I fish them very similar but use a #12 treble hook. The smaller perch can't get the whole bait in at once with the treble and the bigger fish have no problem but also don't come unbuttoned when they suck in the entire minnow. If I am on a better fish without having to worry about dinks or the bite is lighter I go with an emerald or fathead on a single gold #8 bait holder. Other baits include fishing just the head or a perch eye. Good Luck!