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Offline mudchuck

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White Perch
« on: Feb 04, 2021, 08:50 AM »
Well, it's getting to be that time of the hard-water season where everyone starts asking about white perch, especially in St. Albans Bay.
I've nothing to update or inform on this subject and raise my hand to ask that very question: has anyone located white perch schools in the Lake Champlain basin or bays yet?
Would love to get on them...

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Re: White Perch
« Reply #1 on: Feb 04, 2021, 11:24 AM »
59 views and no one commenting so far, must be a sign no one is on them yet...

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Re: White Perch
« Reply #2 on: Feb 04, 2021, 11:40 AM »
Wondering the same thing Mudchuck. I cant wait to get into them. It should be a good year, considering the lower perch kill last season due to the ice melting off early last year. Thanks for opening the thread up!
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Re: White Perch
« Reply #3 on: Feb 04, 2021, 12:51 PM »
I have not caught any numbers of them yet, or heard of any one that has. Soon. 

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Re: White Perch
« Reply #4 on: Feb 04, 2021, 01:00 PM »
We caught 4 or 5 off Georgia shore last week between 3 of us.
They were mixed in with the yellows.
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Re: White Perch
« Reply #5 on: Feb 04, 2021, 07:38 PM »
We caught 4 or 5 off Georgia shore last week between 3 of us.
They were mixed in with the yellows.

Depth, jig color, time of day...need details...

Thinking of trying Hathaway this weekend.

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Re: White Perch
« Reply #6 on: Feb 05, 2021, 07:12 AM »
Blue silver and orange.
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Re: White Perch
« Reply #7 on: Feb 05, 2021, 11:29 AM »
Blue silver and orange.

really helpful...

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Re: White Perch
« Reply #8 on: Feb 05, 2021, 02:39 PM »
No whites but a great day of nice big yellows in the inland sea. Plenty of ice and fish but not a good day weather wise.

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Re: White Perch
« Reply #9 on: Feb 09, 2021, 07:17 AM »
Anyone getting on them yet?
I tried Hathaway this past Saturday and only found small yellows.

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Re: White Perch
« Reply #10 on: Feb 09, 2021, 05:05 PM »
No whites but a great day of nice big yellows in the inland sea. Plenty of ice and fish but not a good day weather wise.
I’d like to fish out there but I’m sure you need an atv to get out there
i told myself id be back by 2 i guess i didnt factor in that the fish were biting

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Re: White Perch
« Reply #11 on: Feb 09, 2021, 05:16 PM »
I’m guessing they’re somewhere between cow banks and saint Albans bay
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Re: White Perch
« Reply #12 on: Feb 10, 2021, 02:31 PM »
I got a few at Crown Point on Saturday.
They were in 20' of water

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Re: White Perch
« Reply #13 on: Feb 11, 2021, 11:01 AM »
Went for a drive this morning to see where people are fishing.  Not many people out (weekday and cold), but saw a small group just outside the bay.  Probably a quarter mile beyond the green can.  Not saying what they were fishing for, but caught my interest.  This is pretty much directly across from Georgia beach.

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Re: White Perch
« Reply #14 on: Feb 11, 2021, 11:12 AM »
Are people using atvs all over the bay and beyond?

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Re: White Perch
« Reply #15 on: Feb 11, 2021, 11:22 AM »
Are people using atvs all over the bay and beyond?

Probably. I was there last Saturday and 1 fella had an ATV out there.
10-12" thick ice now...

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Re: White Perch
« Reply #16 on: Feb 11, 2021, 06:09 PM »
Hopefully they’ll come in sometime soon they never showed up last year if I remember correctly.
i told myself id be back by 2 i guess i didnt factor in that the fish were biting

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Re: White Perch
« Reply #17 on: Feb 13, 2021, 06:00 AM »
I don’t believe they are in the bay yet. There’s been a few iced in highgate springs but no real numbers I’ve seen. Usually around st pattys day is when they stack in Hathaway. I will post as soon as I find them.








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Re: White Perch
« Reply #18 on: Feb 13, 2021, 06:57 AM »
VTperchchaser, Your great perch pics show late March as the time to hammer the whites. This winter will be like last winter with an early ice out long before late march gets here ! :(

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Re: White Perch
« Reply #19 on: Feb 13, 2021, 07:24 AM »
Haven’t heard of any schools but there’s been a few strays caught at van Everest which isn’t far from the bay so they are starting to move. I may chase this week

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Re: White Perch
« Reply #20 on: Feb 14, 2021, 10:13 AM »
VTperchchaser, Your great perch pics show late March as the time to hammer the whites. This winter will be like last winter with an early ice out long before late march gets here ! :(

A buddy and I went looking for them around Hathaway via canoe and kayak one day right after ice-out last year, without so much as marking a thing. Went all over the usual hot spots. It's possible the canoe was scaring them out from under me, but I also didn't have any luck casting out with sink gear under bobbers so IDK.

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Re: White Perch
« Reply #21 on: Feb 14, 2021, 10:54 AM »
A buddy and I went looking for them around Hathaway via canoe and kayak one day right after ice-out last year, without so much as marking a thing. Went all over the usual hot spots. It's possible the canoe was scaring them out from under me, but I also didn't have any luck casting out with sink gear under bobbers so IDK.

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Re: White Perch
« Reply #22 on: Feb 14, 2021, 01:08 PM »
They move into the bay further at ice out.
We found them in numbers over towards the mouth of the Lamoille opening of walleye season. It was a cold may last year.
There were a big crowd out between the can and Georgia shore side Saturday. Maybe they were getting into them.
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Re: White Perch
« Reply #23 on: Feb 16, 2021, 04:42 PM »
lots of people out yesterday south of the buoy more out towards Burton island . They were grouped up so I would assume white perch . 

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Re: White Perch
« Reply #24 on: Feb 16, 2021, 04:47 PM »
Careful there’s a pressure crack forming near there, fresh snow might be hard seeing.
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Re: White Perch
« Reply #25 on: Feb 18, 2021, 08:10 AM »
I have yet to ice a white this year. Usually just prior to the schools coming in and taking over Hathaway you’ll get a few whites near burton island where the steep drops start. I’ve wanted to search a bit for them but the ice in that area is sketchy at best

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Re: White Perch
« Reply #26 on: Feb 22, 2021, 11:57 AM »
any signs of whites up that way yet? this day in 2018 they was in st.A pretty good,hope soon enough.

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Re: White Perch
« Reply #27 on: Feb 23, 2021, 11:49 AM »
Mid March, hopefully the weather cooperates.
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Re: White Perch
« Reply #28 on: Feb 24, 2021, 09:22 PM »
I fished west side of Burton’s Sunday in every depth of water and caught yellows everywhere but not one white. We were about a mile and a half out from the access at killkare. Hoping soon the whites come in. After the mass of trucks last weekend and now warmer weather I’m sure the ice won’t be ghat great in 2-3 weeks

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Re: White Perch
« Reply #29 on: Feb 28, 2021, 11:21 AM »
Lots people out there, anyone on them yet???

 



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