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IceShanty Main => General Ice Fishing Chit Chat => Topic started by: Tobster on Jan 24, 2013, 12:25 PM
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Anybody have any luck catching perch after the sun goes down, if so could you share some of of your experiences?
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I have had good luck right at dark and 30 min after but than always seems to slow way down.
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I have ice fished from 1945 or 46 I have never hit perch after dark,but this is me,i have been told there eyes
do not work well at night, with "lights" I have hit crappies but NEVER,perch,i may not be doing something right???
hope this helps
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RAT
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Reaction of bite slows down but while salmon fishing schools have come through. Rat finkees work well for nitbit perch with maggots
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Perch cannot see on the dark, that's usually when they get eaten. Brian "bro" brosdahl told me that at one of his seminars
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Not doubting you about Perch not seeing in the dark, but Walleyes are actually a perch and I think they can see in the dark.
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i fish at night a lot,do get some perch but very few and far between
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Not doubting you about Perch not seeing in the dark, but Walleyes are actually a perch and I think they can see in the dark.
thats because walleyes have a tapetum lucidum (membrane that gathers low levels of light) in their eyes, perch don't. Gives the walleyes a huge advantage during low light.
On a few very rare occasions I have caught a perch or two after sunset, but not too often. On the northend of lake champlain, I've watched yellow perch with the aqua-vu, they settle deep into the grass on the bottom and don't move once it starts to get very dark.
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If you have clear ice and a full moon, go for it. Otherwise dont even bother. Perch sleep in the dark.
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Early morning or just before dark... perch arent really nocturnal
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OK, good information, thanks for sharing.
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no eyelids...cant sleep.
They meditate when it is night time....thinking about how they can be a better perch tomorrow.
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I get a few after ark but not to many. most of the ones after dark are on the larger (jumbo ) size. I have got a few 15's after dark no small ones.
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they do feed at times at night...depends on the body of water...try it....
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sight feeders,you cant see in the dark so they dont bite.