What rigs do you like to use when fishing for perch? Line, terminal tackle etc. 

 

Thanks. 

Is this real yellow perch or TX/southern "perch"?

Thinking you're talking about yellow perch.  I use the same rig as I do for crappie. A B n' M SHSS in 7' length with a Pflueger President #6920 spinning reel. The reel is filled with 2# Fireline Crystal with a 4# test fluorocarbon leader.

 

Perch love the same stuff as crappie do. 1/16 oz. ball head jigs dressed with a variety of plastics.

I can catch perch all day on nightcrawlers. But I can't catch crappie all day with crawlers. Crappie like baitfish imitations. Perch are less picky. And good eatin. I don't target them. I'm after what eats the perch. But a cup of crawlers will fill your bucket full of them 

I've always had the best luck catching bigger perch on live 3 inch emerald shiners. Many ways to fish/hook these that will end with results. 

On ‎1‎/‎27‎/‎2017 at 7:29 AM, Crestliner2008 said:

Thinking you're talking about yellow perch.  I use the same rig as I do for crappie. A B n' M SHSS in 7' length with a Pflueger President #6920 spinning reel. The reel is filled with 2# Fireline Crystal with a 4# test fluorocarbon leader.

 

Perch love the same stuff as crappie do. 1/16 oz. ball head jigs dressed with a variety of plastics.

how do you fish the plastics?? bounce em off the bottom? new to this. Thanks!

I only had a short time fishing for yellow perch, but I had my best luck with 1/16 - 1/4 jigs with tubes mostly and other plastics. Not dragging bottom, but not jigging them either. Second rig was a slip bobber rig and did well on that. Drop shot is very effective. In TN they fish for them with a spreader rig and do well. I didn't like it as much since it's a very drop down/vertical way of fishing and I like to cast, but it is very effective.

Yellow perch are very aggressive little devils, easy to catch and great table fare.

They often hit lures meant for other species, and sometimes hit lures 3/4 their own length

If they're specifically targeted though, it's hard to beat live worms or tiny live minnows.

 

Roger

6 hours ago, Dakota Stewart said:

how do you fish the plastics?? bounce em off the bottom? new to this. Thanks!

 

I always cast out the jig, let it hit the bottom and retrieve slowly (and steadily) along that bottom. Yellows usually hug the bottom - unless there's a new hatch of baitfish swimming just under the surface. Then they'll come up to station themselves just beneath the bait ball, while snacking on them. Drifting is a good way to locate them if they are cruising.

I've never targeted yellow perch specifically, but I've caught the most off of 2-3" grubs on 1/16 or 1/8th heads, fished deeper; and 2-3" minnow shaped cranks with lots of bright colors like firetiger patterns, etc.  Gear, I would drop to 4#-6# on a medium light rod.  Watch your drag though, lot's of stuff likes to eat the same thing.  :-)

In deep water, drop shot with minnys. Two hooks up the line one on a leader right on the bottom. On Lake Erie we fished them this way for about 80 years before some bass guy coined the name "drop shot" lol. 

22 minutes ago, HookRz said:

In deep water, drop shot with minnys. Two hooks up the line one on a leader right on the bottom. On Lake Erie we fished them this way for about 80 years before some bass guy coined the name "drop shot" lol. 

 

Same here on Ontario.  I have good luck on little Gulp! minnows, too.