Hey guys,I'm interested in your tactics! I'm a UK Perch angler and as Bass are very similar, UK Perch anglers are now adapting methods more commonly known and used by Bass anglers.

 

I've looked on YouTube at many bass videos and tutorials but I'd like to interact more with Bass anglers directly and hopefully get some extra tips!

 

So my first questions........ what baits y'all throwing and what's your favourite deadly method that if incorporated into my Parch fishing, will see my catch rate increase?

 

Regards,

Ady

We have very few true perch where I'm from, but I have caught them on a Ned rig. Drop shots with live bait or plastics are a popular way to catch perch in some areas also. 

I've been fly fishing Texas hill country limestone creeks for endemic bass and assorted sunfish and native cichlids since I could first drive myself to a remote bridge to get in the river.  

I've culled all my warmwater flies to one technique, variation on David Train's cats whisker, which best represents a ciprinid minnow. fished with a sinking shooting head, Teeny T130, and short leader.  It trolls or swings in the current, bottom-bounces, and catches everything, from the smallest long-ear sunfish to meter-long striped bass.  

 

So when I applied BFS to the same water, it was throwing small Japanese stream-trout crankbaits - 3 to 5 g, 40 to 50 mm. 

The best of these I've used is sinking Duo Spearhead Ryuki.  

 

Mine have the tiny trebles swapped with salt singles, because I also fish these in tide passes to imitate winter glass minnows for seatrout.  

 

I have one specific bottom-bouncing plug, but you might find it easier to bottom-bounce small jigs, and this was where I started my daughters in the same limestone creeks with UL tackle.  And that's the cats whisker fly beside them.  

 

 

I'll show you one catch on the cats whisker and Teeny fly line - a lifetime red-ear sunfish hen.