Check out the SECOND perch!

[swampbuckster]

Lookin around youtube and stumbled upon this! Jeez!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=-pBIkaJonrE

[n4cer26]

Holy Crap!!!

[P Meyette]

wow what a perch

[scout 2]

 Has anyone on here fished out of South Haven in the spring or summer? When I live down that way we use to fish it in the early spring and fished it up until July. The early spring perch ran 12 plus inches and I have caught a few that were 15 inches. The ones in the spring ran bigger and were a mile or better off shore in 50 to 60 foot of water on the rock piles. We also used to catch coho salmon on a fly rod with a spining reel using night crawlers and a bobber.

[smittybob]

That's two sandwiches!!!

[DaveSS1]

Has anyone on here fished out of South Haven in the spring or summer? When I live down that way we use to fish it in the early spring and fished it up until July. The early spring perch ran 12 plus inches and I have caught a few that were 15 inches. The ones in the spring ran bigger and were a mile or better off shore in 50 to 60 foot of water on the rock piles. We also used to catch coho salmon on a fly rod with a spining reel using night crawlers and a bobber.

Yep go out there often in early summer.  Fishing last year was better early spring and then picked back up in late Jun.  Fishing overall was hit and miss but did managed a few good ones.   Biggest last year was 13" and believe it or not was caught in 12' of water.  Talk about a riot finding fish that shallow!

[5galbucket]

3 lb perch? holy crud!   

[MikeInMI]

Holy Cow, that's a big perch!!

[Diehard_fisherman]

musta caught him off from a nuclear plant waste runoff 

[scout 2]

Believe it or I have seen 5 gallon pail full of ones that size. That was before there was a limit on them in the great lakes. That is one thing I miss about not living down there.

[george33]

That is big

[Ice Sergeant]

Holy schnitt....pretty sure I know what I'll be doing this year in my new 16 pro deep v.

[iluvgillz]

Thats a peacock  bass!!!!!

[Diehard_fisherman]

its kind of unfortunate he kept it, we need more breeders like that

[swampbuckster]

its kind of unfortunate he kept it, we need more breeders like that

Hahahaha. You saying that outta all people!! Come on guy, you'd a kept it in a heart beat!!!!!!!!

[topwaterbait]

its kind of unfortunate he kept it, we need more breeders like that

If you read the comments on the video he said he caught it in 50 fow. That's why he did not release the fish. That is a really nice perch.

[Diehard_fisherman]

lmao!!!!! your right! i would! atleast i take those dinks out of the breeding cycle

[Diehard_fisherman]

yeah i did read that comment, what does 50fow have to do with it? swimbladder?

[gillcommander]

lmao!!!!! your right! i would! atleast i take those dinks out of the breeding cycle

I imagine at one time or another that masher pig perch was a dink!! Where do you think big fish come from? 

[Diehard_fisherman]

oh i know, that perch was probably what like 15 yrs old?

[Ice Beard]

I am speechless...that is simply the largest perch I have ever seen!

Cheers,
Ice Beard

[jlaclair]

thats a nice walleye 

[waterwolf42]

I'd put it on a tip-up and use it for bait   

Yea, right!!!!!   Nice perch indeed!   

[scoutb]

Yep, I'd hang that on my wall.

[fishook]

Throwing back an exceptionally large fish with the expectation that it will be a great reproducer is a misguided gesture that overlooks some documented fish facts .  The lifespan of yellow perch is about 6 years.  Very large perch (or any other freshwater species) are also very old. Ecological factors far more imporant than genetics are needed to get a perch to extraordinary sizes. Keeping exceptionally large fish is almost always a practice of good conservation because they are at the end of their life span. One more point. The Indiana and Illinois state record perch are both at 2 lbs 8/9 oz and were pre-spawn females full of eggs. The fish in the video was caught in Dec and shows no signs of egg development yet. The perch in the video was not weighed and his menton of it's weight being 3 lbs was merely the opinion of a fisherman.    I wish he had MEASURED that perch in the video.  After 20+ years of contact with commercial netters on 3 of the 5 great lakes who take perch by the thousands, I can tell you with certainty that 16" is a threshold length that is RARELY met by yellow perch. That's why I am always skeptical of posts of record class size perch that are posted with no proof. The perch posted is a great one for sure, but length is not given and it's probably closer to 2 lbs than 3.       

Here's a legitimate 16"er with a full spawning profile.    

[Sage17]

I totally agree with you fishook. When I was a kid we would catch 13-15 inch jumbo off the pier in ludington every once in a great while. That small fish he brought out first was at the most 12 inches. Everyone has there own belief and practice on what they think is right. Why should one be better than the other vice versa. Pretty funny how worked up people get. Good luck fishing this weekend everyone, check ice often and be safe. Keep your oil HOTT!!!!