What should I use to catch perch during the spring. I've tried spinners. Can't catchem.

  I usually use a small jig head, chartuse or pink seems to work for me, 1/8 oz or less, tipped with a minnow, vertical jig off the side of the boat is your best bet.  Look for rock piles, drop offs, or edges of weedlines for the best bites.  Walleye are in the Perch family, and here in Minnesota, it seems most everyone fishes for them.  Walleye are a lot bigger than regular yellow perch, so sometimes you can troll crankbaits, use a planer board, or jig with live or plastic bait, as mentioned before.  Those are the main ways to catch them.   

Around here I just fish for bass in certain lakes and cannot keep yellow perch off the lures.

 

Allen

When I was growing up, I used to catch a lot of large perch on a small Al's Goldfish lure retrieved very slowly. Later when I'd take my son fishing when he was about 6 yrs old, he would catch small ones on worms.

We slay em on a 1/8 jig head and a zoom speed craw or yum craw

Rooster tail. Beetle spin or small ball of break on a Aberdeen hook.

Get you some number 8 hooks, and get some of the tiny berkley gulp minnows in chartruese. We slay them on this combo. I let mine free fall no weight, takes forever. My partner uses a bobber and weight. I outfish him 2-1 usually on this.

Slow roll a 2" curly tail on a 1/16 oz. ball head jig. Keep it close to the bottom. You'll get bit.

The crappie guys use a mister twister 1" chartreuse grub with a rattle bobber. It seems to catch everything.

Mepps inline spinners, panther martin spinflys and joesfly. With joesfly match the hatch or close use blackgnat when in doubt.

Small spinner baits small squarebills

Jerkbaits work too.

 

When I'm after numbers of big boy's,,,,good ole minnows we catch a lot of 13" 14" fish 2 at a time. Nut'n like a mess of big 0'l perch!!

I've caught them on Blakemore RoadRunners  in high visibility colors down my way.  Just a thought.

When I'm after numbers of big boy's,,,,good ole minnows we catch a lot of 13" 14" fish 2 at a time. Nut'n like a mess of big 0'l perch!!

Wow! That's a slew of biiiiig perch.

Use a worm and bobber while sitting on a 5 gallon bucket drinking a PBR.

But then again we don't have "perch" like those pictures above.