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