Five Tips for Catching Great Lakes Perch

[@jameslang9894]

New to your channel. Great job on the break down in this video, as well as your explanation. I will definitely give your other videos a look. Keep up the great work 😎🤙

[@thegreatlakesfisherman]

Thanks for the comment and support. I appreciate it!

[@adambriggs7032]

Great advice for a beginner. I would agree these are the best 5 tips you could learn. Great video!!

[@thegreatlakesfisherman]

Thank you. Appreciate the comment!

[@ryycarter1623]

Good show

[@DruFishing]

Great video!

[@mtaran02]

Thank you!

[@steelrat5604]

How to fish without minnows ? Sometimes is hard to buy, depending where you fish. Great video, thank You !

[@thegreatlakesfisherman]

Live minnows are probably the most productive for perch, but you can get by with pieces of fish too (perch eyes can be used if you run out of bait). Sometimes worms will work. Trolling can even work. But live emerald shiners fished on or near the bottom is still the most productive in my experience.

[@daleroush1960]

Nice job thank you

[@thegreatlakesfisherman]

Thanks for your comment!!

[@sinistar426]

Some points. 1. Hooking a minnow through the lower and upper jaw essentially kills the shiner by suffocation. It cant open its mouth properly to breath and have water flow over its gills. Hook it through the upper or lower jaw only and itll stay alive a lot longer as long as it isnt being bitten. 2. slack line can cause a perch to swallow the hook before you detect the bite which can kill the fish as you say, especially if its a small one and you dont plan to keep it. But so can fishing for perch in 70ft of water. Their swim bladder cant handle being reeled in from that depth much like deep salt water bottom fishing. Their swim bladder can come out its mouth, their eyes can bulge, and their vent can protrude/prolapse. Again, if its small, you cant throw it back. I cant tell you how many times ive seen ppl coming back from fishing trips full of dinks they kept because of the deep water fishing including perch fishing. Its one reason to stay away from big charters that take folks way out in deep water perch fishing, they dont care.

[@thegreatlakesfisherman]

Interesting points! 1) This seems particularly helpful when the fish are few and far between. 2) I watched an old charter captain who would poke the swim bladders of those deep fish with a hook tip and release them. His claim was that they would be fine. Not sure I completely believed it, but I also never saw those fish floating back up.

[@geostrong3606]

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[@youtubecertified4643]

What about how to read the water and what to look for to find perch. Temp, pressure, sunny, cloudy or rainy? Dawn or dusk? All day? Depth? What effect do seasons have on fish?

[@thegreatlakesfisherman]

Perch are pretty active all times of the day. They tend to be more accessible during the colder times of the year (fall, spring, winter) as they are schooled up tighter during that time. Like all fish, pressure impacts perch as well. Fish near weed beds in waters that have them. In waters that don’t, use sonar to scan the bottom.

[@gregweber7325]

This is typical fishing nowadays. Facebook, cellphone, forum fishing. Look for other boats and if they catch a fish, move in on them. Don’t go unless you know someone found the fish. Oh by the way, buy that expensive fish finder and livescope so it looks like you know what you are doing.

[@thegreatlakesfisherman]

I’m sorry - I’m not sure what you are getting at?