Sale Of perch

[fiddlehead322]

Don't get it. Pull fish from the water and play perch hockey with them. If that's true you have to be the biggest idiot I have ever seen. What a waste of a resource.

  Actually I do throw my yellas back except to feed an eagle once in a while. Or give em to a friend from Michigan that fishes with us sometimes. But only if he gives me his crappies! Now there's some good eats right there! Best eating fish that swims! Yellas, any pond, anytime, anywhere! Even an idiot could catch a yella! Those (things) are everywhere!

[tracker 1]

I'm against the sale of perch in NY.  I don't see how anyone fishing waters with a 50 perch limit a day can make a dime anyways.  After paying for gas, bait, equipment, and man hours ( catching and cleaning), you are probally losing money.  If you want to sell fish, you should have to have a commercial fishing license.

 I don't believe their was a limit many yrs ago and I believe it really hurt the fishing. Guys would walk of the lake with a few buckets of fish and sell them all. I usually through back anything under 9".I can't see how anyone would just leave them on the ice ,it is a tremendous waste of food.

[fiddlehead322]

Sorry fiddlehead, but most of you Maine guys still leave your perch on the ice, or use them for your "perch hockey"...some of us eat them...If we could sell them in Maine, there wouldn't be any left on the ice huh?

  That might be a good idea. Then we wouldn't be pestered with all the bait stealing. What would the birds eat then?  People talk like they would starve without perch. No grocery stores around there? Give me a break!

[raate]

my kids had a choice of perch or walleye for dinner tonight . they chose perch. I can't buy perch in the grocery store, and with two fish buyers in my town , it just don't seem right? 1.75 lb? i'll buy some! cheaper than catching them!

[Grumpyoldman]

If you dont eat it throw it back. I find that late season fishing is very poor. I think that this may be due to fishermen who pull everything they can through the ice. Ive watched them. If they dont want it, they leave it on the ice. at first I could not comprehend catch and release. After tough times catching fish, I finally understand. Sometimes just a couple of flags or a nuisance pickeral make it all good.     

[filetandrelease]

in ny I think you can get a ticket for leaveing dinks all over the ice and they also count toward your limit

[Superx2]

in ny I think you can get a ticket for leaveing dinks all over the ice and they also count toward your limit

You can get tickets for a lot of stuff ice fishing but I rarely see it.  Pissing on the ice, leaving tip ups out when you leave for lunch and littering.  The only laws you break are the ones they catch you breaking !!!  That saying is too right sometimes.