Yellow Perch tips? Snohomish county

[Kumacub]

Hey all. I’m a new angler. I’m looking into fishing here in the spring for yellow perch at some lakes near me. Most likely lake Stevens. I am hoping to buy some gear to have a set up in my tackle box for yellow perch. Any chance anyone is willing to give me a few tips to be successful? Trying to make some fish tacos if I get lucky.

[GWP]

Weed line if there is one. About 20’ if not. Drop shot rig with a smallish whiteish ‘something’ on it or match what is in the water.
If you are an ‘active’ or ‘nervous’ fisherman (as I am) slow drag weedless through the weed edge into open water or hop it along the edge of the weeds.
Or, if you have sonar on the front drive around with a trolling motor until you see a school, kill the trolling motor and drop same rig down to depth of fish so it passes through and settles in them. Nothing like a little competition! You can usually get a couple before they move on and you have to find them again or another school.
I watched three guys doing that and They literally had a 3/4 full 5 gallon bucket of them and were still fishing.

[birdshooter1189]

As stated above, I usually use one of 2 things:  Smallest jigs i have, cast and retrieve VERY slow, occasionally giving slight twitches.

First choice:

6lb test main line. Drop shot with 3/8" weight tied to end.  about 12" up the line I tie a small loop, and then attach a 4" leader of 6lb test tied to a size 12 plain dry fly hook. (low profile hook for tying your own flies).  I then put a small piece of live worm on the hook, or use powerbait artificial worm.  Cast out and retrieve very slowly.  This usually works great for me.  I took my boat out to a local lake about a week ago and tried this method with 3 rods between me and my kids. We caught 4 perch in 2 hours. Past trips with this method have landed 30+ fish in an hour with a single rod.

[Kumacub]

 Li didn’t even think they were active now. I thought I had to wait until closer to April/may. Thanks gents! I’ll be fishing from the bank but I’ll try my best here. Will post if there’s any success.

[30.06]

I use the same technique, # 8 or 10 baitholder hooks. Perch are active in winter. I tried off the bank a few weeks ago with no luck, didn't stay long. They tend to bite well near dusk in the summer.

[Shrimper]

On first perch you land, fillet small thin skinless strips off of that and use for bait.  This will out fish most other baits 10-1 in Lake Stevens for perch.  This method is also very effective for bass in Lake Stevens too, with larger fillet strips. Good Luck!

[Mfowl]

The Danielson double drop rigs are excellent for perch. Also just a standard bait plunking rig with egg sinker, barrel swivel and hook leader. A chunk of nightcrawler is the best starting bait but once you get into them chunks of actual perch meat work really good too! Small jigs/curlytails and beetlespins are standards as well. When drop shotting I usually use a heavy lure like a castmaster or small dart as the weight with hook/bait about 18" up from that. In the warm water months I catch them often on bass plugs, sometimes as big as they are. If you are fishing from shore a jig or bait under a bobber in the weeds will get them too.

[jason stevens]

Keep it simple, bobber an a small piece of night crawler. Or worm on the bottom. We get a bunch at fish lake. Good eats an fun to fish.

[jason stevens]

I know you said snohomish county  but fish lake is 1.5 hour drive. It's worth the trip

[Skillet]

If I had to pick one lure to fish perch with for he rest of my life,  it would be a 2" chrome Swedish Pimple with a perch eye on a #6 hook.

[WSU]

If I had to pick one lure to fish perch with for he rest of my life,  it would be a 2" chrome Swedish Pimple with a perch eye on a #6 hook.

Did this ice fishin at fish lake and it was real effective! Great fun for winter time fishing and fish tacos!