| Yellow Perch are a very easy fish to catch one you | | | | the goal should be to look for jumbo sized perch. |
| have located them. The key concept in perch fishing | | | | Small perch are really a dime a dozen and not worth |
| however is finding the fish.Yellow Perch are a fish | | | | the efforts of a true sportsman. |
| that likes to travel is large schools. Unlike many other | | | | For starters you need to keep your equipment as |
| fish a school of perch can have fish of many | | | | light as possible. I like to use a light action rod of |
| different sizes, they do not school by size. When | | | | about 6 foot length. Use a high quality rod that will |
| fishing for perch you need to realize that ninety five | | | | allow you to feel bites. Remember always that a |
| percent of the fish will be in less than five percent of | | | | Yellow Perch can be a very wary species of fish that |
| the available water. | | | | picks up bait very lightly. If you do not have a rod |
| They prefer a temperature of sixty six to seventy | | | | with the sensitivity to feel these light taps you will |
| two degrees Fahrenheit. Yellow Perch also like water | | | | miss many fish you might otherwise have caught. |
| that is somewhat deep, but their definition of deep | | | | The reel is perhaps the least important aspect of |
| may differ than ours. In a lake with an average depth | | | | perch fishing. Any functioning spinning reel will do. You |
| of six to eight feet you will surely find the large | | | | will never need a drag and certainly does not need a |
| perch in a deep fifteen foot hole somewhere in the | | | | great deal of reel power to bring even the largest |
| lake. If however you are fishing a huge lake with | | | | jumbo perch to the boat. |
| depths over one hundred feet you will find them | | | | The most important thing to keep in mind is to keep |
| most likely in water no deeper than thirty feet. | | | | your fishing line thin. I recommend using fluorocarbon |
| Yellow Perch like structure to work from. Their | | | | line to take full advantage of its invisibility value. For a |
| favorite natural food is the crayfish. This means they | | | | project some day you should cut even sized strips of |
| like to inhabit areas near the rocks crayfish like to | | | | your favorite monofilament and fluorocarbon lines and |
| hide in. In many ways the perch is much like the | | | | inspect them in water, somewhat murky water like |
| Walleye. They are part of the same family and have | | | | you encounter fishing. You will be surprised at the |
| many of the same proclivities. Unfortunately for the | | | | true difference between the two in terms of visibility. |
| perch they are the main forage species for Walleye | | | | I would select a line of either two or four pound test. |
| as well. | | | | Anything more is overkill that will hurt your chances |
| There are many way for the angler to catch a large | | | | of hooking a fish while giving you absolutely no added |
| quantity of nice perch. When fishing for Yellow Perch | | | | value. |