Looking for help

[Bggeary]

I try not to keep anything smaller then 8 inches, but sometimes it can't be helped, swallow the hook or just the size of the school your on, but I try to limit those days to 7.

[papajoe]

Welcome to the "cove" 5285. The posts here were very informative. I have a perch story that I tell when I can find someone to listen. It was late in the year and cold. I had taken my boat out for the winter but I don't remember what month it was. We were fishing the bridge where the creek runs into the marina at Maumee Bay State Park. Shiners were under the bridge and they were in there thick. We netted them and put them on a single hook that we sent to just off the bottom. We caught all the perch we wanted but since the park ranger told us that the creek was heavily polluted and all the perch were about seven inches we threw them back as we caught them. But I enjoy catching different species in spots that are often overlooked or where fish aren't expected to be there.

[Mark]

I just bought a place at Green Cove and am looking forward to a season full of fishing. The walleye fishing sounds great, and I can't wait to get the boat in the water to try for them. What I could use some help with is perch fishing. I read all these posts with fantastic advise for spring walleye, but I haven't seen a word since November about perch fishing. Do the schools move out, or is just nobody reporting on it? Any information would be appreciated, and I am excited to meet a lot of my new neighbors in the next few weeks.

I'm a little confused....are you looking for advice on how to Perch fish, or, advice on if and where the Perch might be biting during certain times of the year? Or are you looking for all info available? Try going online to watch the videos on Perch fishing.....some for the Western Basin of Lake Erie and other areas. Check out what they catch and what they use in different parts of the country. If you go back and read the posts from last summer and fall, ('16), you'll see that it was a picture perfect Perch season. People were limiting out all over the place. And they gave a lot of tips on how to catch them. Try a Charter Trip with a small group and ask-ask-ask the Captain/Mate all the questions you can think of. Hell, jump on any of the Head Boats and try to learn from them any info, sometimes they'll open up. Research all you can and go for it.