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Ice Fishing Tips -Check your local regulations! => Perch => Topic started by: perchman47 on Feb 09, 2010, 12:46 AM
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i always hear guys talking about keeping fish over 10 or 11 inches. when i go out i look for the 8-10 inchers because they ae alot easier to clean with a regular fillet knife, and i think what i get off a perch that size is worth it. yes i enjoy catching big perch i have caught some over 13 inches this year and kept a few but i still think a 9 inch male perch has the best tasting fillet out of any fish out there
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i always hear guys talking about keeping fish over 10 or 11 inches. when i go out i look for the 8-10 inchers because they ae alot easier to clean with a regular fillet knife, and i think what i get off a perch that size is worth it. yes i enjoy catching big perch i have caught some over 13 inches this year and kept a few but i still think a 9 inch male perch has the best tasting fillet out of any fish out there
buy a leech lake fillet knife!!...i broke down and bought one it is the best knife in the u.s
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8" and over is plenty good enough for me!!
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Anything over 8" is a keeper in this neck of the woods :icefish:
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with smaller fish the males are worth it for me to clean, the females that size get to go back in my hut
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i would take a plate full of smaller fillets over just a few fillets from bigger ones. and i do think the smaller ones taste better
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9" +
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Anything over 8, but I don't fillet my perch.
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Anything over 8, but I don't fillet my perch.
why not?...i bet you will now....if not ur a dummy..........
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GotEmHooked- I've got my way to do it, works good when you've got buckets to do after an outing.
Zip your knife, blade up, down both sides of the fins on the back, then pull that fin up from the back foreward.
Put your thumb between the meat and skin on one side then the other, at the start of these cuts. This separates the skin from the meat.
Cut straight down at the start of your first cuts until you break the backbone.
Grab the meat where that cut meets the other two, pull the meat out of the skin.
Meat comes out clean, then all you have to do is cut off the belly bones.
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GotEmHooked- I've got my way to do it, works good when you've got buckets to do after an outing.
Zip your knife, blade up, down both sides of the fins on the back, then pull that fin up from the back foreward.
Put your thumb between the meat and skin on one side then the other, at the start of these cuts. This separates the skin from the meat.
Cut straight down at the start of your first cuts until you break the backbone.
Grab the meat where that cut meets the other two, pull the meat out of the skin.
Meat comes out clean, then all you have to do is cut off the belly bones.
Just watched that vid, thats how I've done it since I was like 8, thats not a fillet...
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I usually don't start keeping perch until I've caught a nice 10-11 incher. Then I will consider keeping some 9 inchers. I will usually catch them again even after I release them, who knows...
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with smaller fish the males are worth it for me to clean, the females that size get to go back in my hut
and once you get them back in your hut..., what happens then......, never mind I don't want to know. ::) :o
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depends how hungry i am for a fish fry
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If I'm planning on taking home a good catch then I will keep anything over a 7 inches.
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I put any perch under 8" back down the hole,so they can "grow-up"
nove
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depends how hungry i am for a fish fry
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Depends what the lake your fishing has to offer. My near by lake has a lot of small perch, yet I try to keep only 8" and over. If I deep hook a small one I take it home. Fishing a lake with jumbo's in it..., why keep even 8"
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9" +
Same here...
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8" and up.
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Any trout of legal size. Everything else goes back.
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I got a chance to fish a private pond years ago, the owner wanted it cleaned out so he could turn it into a trout pond. We certainly took our share that day !! :thumbsup: :icefish: :icefish:
(http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l113/lael19533/Militia/IMG_0004.jpg)
Those planks are 2x10, so I'd say 9" plus ! :thumbsup: :icefish:
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At one time if I only caught a few fish I would give them away. Then one time I caught a big mess and it took so long to clean them I was up way to late cleaning them. I figured out that I can clean a few fish in minutes and throw them in the freezer. A few small batches makes a nice meal and I am not as tired the next day. I will keep a 7 inch perch, if needed. If I have caught enough 8's and 9's the 7's go back. I don't need allot of fish to make me happy.
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I personally think the smaller ones are the best eating, the bigger ones arent nearly as good. In the winter im happy with 7-9 inchers but I will keep them up to 11-12, anything bigger goes back.
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I'm betting with the job situation, and the cost of food sky rocketing, "Catch & Release" will be put on hold, in many cases. Who can blame them.
I offer a lot of catches to older folks who can use them.
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9+
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I'm betting with the job situation, and the cost of food sky rocketing, "Catch & Release" will be put on hold, in many cases. Who can blame them.
I offer a lot of catches to older folks who can use them.
I hear ya there Silvercliff, I have an elderly couple that love the Perch and Crappie and I make sure that they get some fillets when I target the Panfish !
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8"+
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Any size the eagles want! ~j/k (sort of)
On my home lake we slam the crappies, but occasionally get a school of YP coming through and we'll keep the 12"+ fish, and feed the eagles the smaller ones.
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36 24 36 with vocal chords removed ;D
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24 36 24 with vocal chords removed ;D
That's Great! If they we're still in existence today! This could be filed under "the perfect catch" also! ::)
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For me if I can lay the perch on my hand with its nose at the tip of my middle finger and its tail is fully off my hand and on my wrist its a keeper, which for me is just over 8.5inches.
J-
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Any perch worth the trouble of cleaning.
I don't want to be eating small perch "nibblets"
I want a nice piece of fish that is worth my time to clean, cook and eat.
Wiener
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Depends what I'm catching. If they're all small, I'll keep a few. If I can get some bigger fish, all the small ones go back.
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Go along with my wife... has to be 10" ;D
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Now that's pretty cool, never seen it done that way before. I'm an electric knife guy, only way to go when there's a pile of 200+ laying in the cooler. ;D Like others have said, my definition of a keeper depends on how hungry I am, but I guess 7" is about the absolute smallest.
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Same here...
bart bart bart Im suprised at you! LOL
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Same here...
:clap: :thumbsup: :clap: :thumbsup:
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24 36 24 with vocal chords removed ;D
You guys in the US must be different from us Canadians. ::)
Here most of us aren't into flat chested, big bellied, no butt women. :o :o
Now 36-24-36 or even somewhat close is a target species. ;D
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I thought nobody noticed! ;D Its all about the cutter :thumbsup:
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9+
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8+ maybe really fat 7
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8" and up in the bucket. :icefish:
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i keep 9 inchers, 8 inchers if i am catching a lot of them
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How do you tell if the perch are male or female.
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females are usually round and fat with a large bump on their head, males longer and slimmer and not much of a bump on the head. most fish kept are the females they grow larger than the males.
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9-10 inchers can keep. i try to throw the big females back if im not fishing deep water. if the swim bladder blows up they all keep.
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9-10 inchers can keep. i try to throw the big females back if im not fishing deep water. if the swim bladder blows up they all keep.
About same here, I occasionally have a difficult time throwing back a real fatty.
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6" and up. Big females back down the hole they go!
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24 36 24 with vocal chords removed ;D
yes :thumbsup:
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depends how hungry i am for a fish fry
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I prefer NOT to keep any under 8" if possible.
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I personally try to stick to 8-9"+ but one of the spots i fish they are wicked overpopulated so sometimes Ill keep some smaller ones.
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personally I let the eagles decide what perch to keep they all get tossed out on the ice
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I like perch to be 8-12 " anything smaller goes back anything bigger goes back. But that's just me. I usually fish for fun, and mostly catch and release. But will keep once in a while
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Perch 9" crappie 10" gills 8.5"
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8 an up, 2nd best tasting only bluegill are better, i guess maybe cause we have way more perch here than gills
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10 inch plus anything smaller a pain to clean!
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(http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c180/BobBabinski/101_0010.jpg) :whistle:
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and once you get them back in your hut..., what happens then......, never mind I don't want to know. ::) :o
Lol
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9+, anything else is a dink ;)
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I think it depends on the water you fish; a lot of lakes around here 10'' is pretty common so that's what I'm looking for. Obviously if 9.5 is the top end I'll adjust. I also like to throw back the big females on the rare occasions when I find more than one of them.
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8 and above I fillet em
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depends on the body of water I fish and how hungry I am ,
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depends on the body of water I fish and how hungry I am ,
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It's relative...
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8" is the cut off.
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For around here
Perch 10" - 12"
walleye 18" - 22"
Pike 18" - 24"
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IF IT'LL MAKE ME A NICE LIL SAMICH......we will keep em..otherwise its catch and release
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i like the smaller ones...they go on a hook
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anything that tastes good
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8" in the lake I fish most often.
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Like most, about 8 inches is the minimum length. For the most part, roe filled females go back down the hole, especially the bigger ones.
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Usually 8 inch plus, but some lakes a fish are deep and the fish blow up(swim bladder). In those lakes if it gets reeled up it goes on the ice.
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8" and above. Smaller just aren't worth filleting.
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There's have been times on Seneca where if it's not 12" it's going back. Ya it's that good ;D ;D ;D
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14"
These two where close to 16"
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Removing 14-15" perch will negatively affect a trophy fishery.
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Removing 14-15" perch will negatively affect a trophy fishery.
Jealous much.
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Lol not at all; my pb is 14"-- I treat 'em like any trophy fish, back down the hole to breed. I have plenty of perch fillets in freezer. Are those jumbos common in your spot? Seems like a waste... BTW those fish are some of the best perch I've seen on IS.
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Lol not at all; my pb is 14"-- I treat 'em like any trophy fish, back down the hole to breed. I have plenty of perch fillets in freezer. Are those jumbos common in your spot? Seems like a waste... BTW those fish are some of the best perch I've seen on IS.
I was only trying to be funny .
This lake is loaded!!!! With yumbos 14-16"
And the few I keep every year has "0" effect on population.
I can say that beacause , I've been catching them every year like this for a long time.
They are in water so deep no one else even try's.
And they can't be released . They are blown up when I finale get them on the ice.
I've never caught one under 14" in this deep water.
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Now I am jealous! Sounds like heaven...
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7+
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Depends on what body of water I'm fishing.
One lake I fish a keeper is 12" plus. Most common fish come around 14.5".
Another lake it's 10" plus, hardly ever find a jumbo, you're lucky if you get one over 12", so you take what you can get.
On the Mississippi river back in college it was 9-10" for a keeper but those fish had backstraps like an Elk!
It all depends on the fishery and how slow the day is, some are stunted, some are prolific! Just depends. It's extremely hard to over fish a perch fishery unless you live in a very densely human populated area, or there has been some sort of strain on natural reproduction...i.e. spiny water flea, goby etc.
I love perch, catching them, eating them, letting them go... It all depends on the fishery IMHO.
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7"
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We go with, if it's 8 then it's ate.
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I was only trying to be funny .
This lake is loaded!!!! With yumbos 14-16"
And the few I keep every year has "0" effect on population.
I can say that beacause , I've been catching them every year like this for a long time.
They are in water so deep no one else even try's.
And they can't be released . They are blown up when I finale get them on the ice.
I've never caught one under 14" in this deep water.
Same scenario with the lakes I fish. Super deep and 90% of the fish are hogs! Can't let them go...they will just die. Haven't seen any impact on the fishery. I usually keep 20 or 30 from each lake I fish, all of them pigs!
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9 inch plus