Straight spoons, like the Acme Kastmaster or Bay de Noc Swedish Pimple, create plenty of flash but offer less action than bent or curved lures (super-action). Phosphorescent or metallic lures, like gold-silver, green, and orange attract perch.
Most flash lures for perch weigh 1/8 to 1/4 ounce. The bigger the lure, the more flash and vibration. In dark water (or when perch are scattered in clear water) flash lures work well. When a flag goes, hustle over quickly and quietly to catch a few perch by jigging before the school moves. Within a few feet of the tip-up, drill an extra hole, or two. Over a large shallow flat, for example, drill multiple holes so you can spread tip-ups out to cover a large area. Use tip-ups primarily to locate perch rather than to catch them. Using tip-ups is a proactive way to track roaming perch. Setting multiple baits in close proximity also may give fish the sense that ample feeding opportunities exists, holding perch in the area longer. Even though perch may not hit the flash lure once they get close, they may go for the nearby livebait. Jigging a flash lure with one line and suspending livebait below a deadstick or under a float can be productive. Using multiple lines and waiting for perch to come to you may be more productive than trying to catch up with small pods of roaming fish. Several small schools (say 2 to 10 fish per pod) may, for example, roam a large flat. Determine perch location, behavior (aggressive, neutral, or negative), school size, and how far they roam to decide the best tactics and presentations. Mudflats often support mayfly larva or other insect life. Hard bottoms, such as rock, gravel, or sand attract freshwater shrimp (scuds) and minnows that attract perch. Near weedlines, flooded brush, and timber, perch often congregate to feed on small aquatic life-plankton, nymphs, minnows, freshwater shrimp, blood worms, and other aquatics. Many different patterns can exist at the same time in the same body of water. Yet if populations are high, schools may also number in the hundreds. In small, shallow, fertile lakes, they may, on the other hand, roam in small packs (ten or fewer). Indeed, in the Great Lakes, schools may number in the thousands. In deeper lakes, schools of hundreds of perch are common. Food oxygen level security and whether it's early, mid, or late winter are variables that affect perch behavior.ĭepending on lake type, perch can be both shallow and deep. That may vary hour to hour, day to day, month to month, lake to lake, fish to fish. To catch perch you must investigate potential locations and adapt your approach to prevalent perch behavior. Other times they nose within inches to decide if your offering's worth eating. Sometimes they watch lures from a distance. Finding perch and which lures and baits trigger them is the driving force for many winter anglers-that and the two tasty fillets per fish.
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