Perch Fishing

**lineman49** · 08-26-2012, 07:53 PM

3 friends went straight out in front of SP. this AM. & got 137 perch in 62fow. They got sm. minnows at ft. of ferry st., not many there.

**copo427ss** · 08-27-2012, 07:23 AM

Originally Posted by lineman49

3 friends went straight out in front of SP. this AM. & got 137 perch in 62fow. They got sm. minnows at ft. of ferry st., not many there.

Did they mention any size to the fish they were catching?

**lineman49** · 08-27-2012, 07:50 AM

Various sizes, some 1+ #ders. most average size.

**wnyguy** · 08-27-2012, 04:31 PM

That's good news!

I don't really like to keep them until they are usually 10 inches or so. Mostly what I caught sat were 8 inchers, not really worth it.

Last friday I got minnows at the foot of ferry myself, same situation not many. Took a bunch of dips to get some, and they weren't really that big.

The bait shop in derby still has emeralds for sale.

**copo427ss** · 08-28-2012, 12:00 AM

Yeah I don't keep smaller ones either. Even if you get a bunch. By the time ur done filleting them you have small fillets. And by the time they shrink up in the frying pan. Theyre more like fish bites than fish sticks or fillets lol. So I try n keep the 10 inch rule myself. Now back when I was a kid, at the cottage on Wolfe island. Anything under 12inches was thrown back. Sometimes grandpa wouldn't let anyone keep anything under 13 or 14 inches. And you'd fill an onion bag full in a couple hours. But you don't find jacks up there anymore. I think the VHS virus hit hard up there for a long time, before they caught onto it in the great lakes.

**lineman49** · 08-28-2012, 07:17 AM

Copo, gramps wouldn,t let you keep 14"ers, how big were the keepers?! That had to be a pretty nice onion bag of fish!

**copo427ss** · 08-29-2012, 07:02 AM

The name doesn't sound familiar. But my grandparents might know who he is. There cottage is in irving bay off 16th line rd. yeah there were evening where you would catch solid 15+ inch fish as fast as you could get the minnow to the bottom. He would look at the bag after a few hrs of fishing and say ok that's it. We still gotta clean all these. Lol. You didn't always get huge perch. But if we got on a school that were consistently big. Everything under 13-14 inches was tossed back. But average catches were 12 and up. The fun part was you weren't open water fishing. You would go down to a place called high banks, it has a steep drop off almost straight down right off shore, and anchor in 50fow. They weren't always there in numbers, but when they were it was a blast. Especially when ur a kid