question

[stelth]

do the perch allways school,,or are they sometime loners

[slipperybob]

I've caught big perch as loners.

[Icefishing2012]

Little one tend to school, while the biggers ones tend to be loners.

[badsparky]

The jumbo that I caught last weekend was a loner.

[chfishon]

I see a lot of loners with my camera....

[Jigmup]

I've found that they school according to size. Thats not to say that they all school! This past weekend we were picking off loners.

[laclabiche walleye hunter]

Seems to me that the smaller ones scholl up. All of the jumbos i have caught have been loners.

[gemcityslayer]

That is interesting never really thought about it.... but I think it holds true.  I'll catch a 10" (big for my lake) and then nothing for awhile.  Might catch another 10" or two... but then seems like schools of dinks (3") will swim through too.

[Buckshots]

I think a lot of it depends on the lake.  All lakes are different. Ive seen them school up in lakes as where other lakes they are all loners.

[gemcityslayer]

Good point, it really does depend on the water and conditions. 

I think if there are weeds they will tend to gravitate toward them... if there are no weeds, they might spread out more.

[gillyman]

I think sometimes big ones school too.  I have had some pretty fast action on good fish that indicates that they are not always loners.