Gentleben

[JonW]

Didn't get your message til this morning. My phone was in the truck and me and Mama (and the girl) were watching Without a Paddle. Did you even have to ask?????? :lol:

[JonW]

Caught 25 more perch this morning on rod-n-reel before breakfast. How many do you want?

[dwaynez]

Nice catch

[JonW]

Fixing to go hit another pond. I've been throwing anything over about 4" back, but still ended up with 27 bait size this morning.

[dwaynez]

Cool

Good bait for those big flats, I have pretty good luck R&R fishing with large perch for blues as well.

[JonW]

Dwayne,
How big can you use them for bait? Should I keep them over 4" or so?

[dwaynez]

I have used them up to 6 or 8 inches when fishing for flatheads, when going for blues I will go up to 4 or 5 inches, but the optimal size is a perch in the 3 inch range. They really seem to bring in the cats.

Also if the Gar are around they seem to love them as well. I will take a few pictures of my setup on R&R and post them later tonight or tomorrow for you to see.

Also if they are really large you can make cutbait as well, blues seem to hit cutbait as well, A large perch can be cut into 3 or sometimes 4 sections. The head is one section the middle is 1 or 2 sections and the tail is the final section.

[JonW]

Thanks, dwayne!

You're good people.

[BIGDAVE]

Hey,.. JonW keep them big perch for me! You don't have to feed them to the big flatheads. I like eatin them too. HeeHe LOL

[JonW]

They are good eatin'! I had my pond drained an dug out back in the fall. It filled up before they could finish it, so I haven't restocked it yet.

If I wasn't fishing out of my neighbors pond I'd be eating perch for supper tonite!

I told him I'd leave the big ones since his pond seems so overpopulated.

[dwaynez]

Perch are excellent eaters, especially when they cooked just right. I love catching large hand sized perch and putting them in the grease or on the pit with some lemon, butter, and onions.