What is the best perch bait?

Answer 1

Fishing for Perch

If you are looking to catch some jumbo perch that you can take home for dinner, you need to be fishing deeper
water except for spawning time and during the fall. Big perch will not be mixed in with the smaller perch. Perch will
school up together and the big fish hang out with the big fish.

When you're fishing an area and you are catching all small perch, move to another spot. Keep moving until you
find a school of bigger fish. Big perch also like to hug the bottom just like walleye. Walleye fishermen usually
catch some big perch because they are in similar areas.

When you find the bigger fish, you need to know how to entice more of them to eat. Perch are competitive and
they are curious when another fish is hooked. You can often see half a dozen or more perch following the perch
on your line all the way to the boat. Some anglers set the hook on one fish, put the rod down and get their other
rod in the same spot. This can help you catch more fish and leads to some chaos which can be fun. If you have a
fishing partner in the boat, don't wind your fish up to the boat. Let the fish stay down there while your partner
throws their bait down there. This is an easy way to get a double.

Top Lures and Baits for Catching Perch



Live Baits



Minnows - this is your best choice for quantity and quality
Worms - a close second behind minnows, great for open water and spawning fish

Panfish Lures - small lures work best, standard jigs, curly tail jigs, jigging spoons,

spinner rigs and small spinners all work well



Finding Yellow Perch



Find good numbers of yellow perch is fairly easy. You can usually cast a piece of a worm around any dock and
catch perch. If you have fished a lake with good populations of perch, you know how easy they are to find. It
seems like they are every where. When you are looking for the jumbo perch, it takes more skill than walking out
on the dock and throwing a worm into the water. Perch love to travel in schools and the fish are typically the same
size and age. If you are catching all smaller fish, you need to keep moving to try to find the schools with big perch.

Spring
In the spring, perch move out of deeper water to begin the spawning migrations. Some fish will travel many miles
to get to their spawning sites, while others travel to the closest bay from their wintering areas. Perch will be
looking for sand, rock, or gravel bottoms to spawn. Locate bays, islands, rocky points, and shallow areas with
scattered weeds.

Summer
When the perch are done spawning, most fish will linger around there spawning bays for a few weeks. Fish can
easily be found in 10 to 25 feet of water. Once the water warms, fish will go deeper for the cooler water. You can
find big schools of perch along the thermocline in the summer. Perch prefer a water temperature between 65 and
70 degrees, so if the water is very warm in the shallows, look for the thermocline in deeper water. Once again,
rock and sand bottoms are best with some vegetation.

Fall
In the fall, fishing gets very exciting again. Schools of perch move to the shallows again and are much easier to
catch. Fish can be caught around rocky shorelines, reefs, shallow flats, or back in the bays.

Winter
Perch fishing can be excellent in the winter. Don't expect to find the fish in open water during the winter. They will
be under the ice the majority of the time. In early and late winter many fish will be in the 5 to 10 foot range,
however, during the middle of winter perch are often caught in water that is between 20 and 40 feet

Answer 2

Perch Lures

Answer 3

The best perch bait if your looking for saltwater perch is about a third of a piece of frozen shrimp on a #6 sized hook. I personally tie two of theses hooks on a line with a triangle weight at the bottom

Answer 4

What I use for fishing for panfish in general is a size 10 dryfly hook and little pieces of earthworm. The hook is small enough to where you will catch the fish, they are not going to nibble the bait off. I also have been known to peel the skin off of beef hot dogs and roll it up a little and pierce one side with the hook, slide it around and then push the tip into the other side. This works great. If you just happen to be out there and you run out of bait, you can flip rocks over on the shore and look for little leeches. They are tough, and you can recycle them because the fish almost never can eat the whole thing.

Have a blast !!!

Answer 5

Small jigheads in bright colours like flourescent yellow, orange or red, with small minnows on them, or worms. use a bobber or if fishing from a boat or through the ice, "deadstick it" and only jig it once in a while. Once you get into a school, be sure to re-bait your jig and put it right back in the water to keep the school's attention.

Once the bite is on, you can use perch eyeballs instead or worms or minnows, so you don't run out of bait. if they stop biting, go back to minnows or worms until you find another school.

Another tip is put some bright flagging tape on your anchor, this will attract them.

Answer 6

How To Catch Perch

Answer 7

All you do it put a little piece of worm on a very small hook about 1-3 feet under the bobber depending on the depth.

Answer 8

crabs is the best bait for perch

Answer 9

i have caught sum huge perch with night crawlers and large minnows that are double rigged. good luck

Answer 10

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