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Perch anyone??
« on: March 26, 2010, 08:46:28 AM »
On Sunday, March 7, 2010, Bob Ruff of Garnavillo, Iowa, landed a perch while ice fishing a bayou of the Mississippi River’s Pool 11 that turned out to be a new state record. The jumbo yellow-belly weighed 2 pounds, 6 ounces. This fish breaks the old record, shared by three other anglers, by 3 ounces
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Re: Perch anyone??
« Reply #1 on: March 26, 2010, 08:49:06 AM »
What a toad!  Silver Lake (in Spokane Co) should be turning on real soon, and Down's Lake should really produce by mid-July.
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Re: Perch anyone??
« Reply #2 on: March 26, 2010, 09:04:33 AM »
I've caught some big perch, but that fella is a fatty. Awesome.

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Re: Perch anyone??
« Reply #3 on: March 26, 2010, 09:39:47 AM »
my biggest one was maybe ehh 5oz :chuckle: that's a nice one!

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Re: Perch anyone??
« Reply #4 on: March 26, 2010, 09:51:04 AM »
That is a big Perch! I think our new state record is in Moses Lake. We have got quite a few jumbo's, my Dad got a 15''er a few years ago!
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Re: Perch anyone??
« Reply #5 on: March 26, 2010, 01:56:20 PM »
full of eggs...

we used to catch them by the bucket load back east through the ice....good fun.
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Re: Perch anyone??
« Reply #6 on: March 26, 2010, 02:43:28 PM »
WHat a nice perch
Used to catch big perch ice fishing for walleyes. Funny the perch would try and swallow a minnow half their size!
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Re: Perch anyone??
« Reply #7 on: March 26, 2010, 04:19:19 PM »
Havent really done much lake fishing other than trout... are there westside lakes that have perch in them ?

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« Reply #8 on: March 26, 2010, 04:48:06 PM »
Just about all westside lakes have perch. 
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« Reply #9 on: March 26, 2010, 05:01:15 PM »
hmm.. shows how much i know i guess  :chuckle:

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Re: Perch anyone??
« Reply #10 on: March 26, 2010, 05:23:22 PM »
thats a biggen,love perch..seems most places have them here, just small

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Re: Perch anyone??
« Reply #11 on: March 26, 2010, 05:35:33 PM »
 :EAT: :EAT: :EAT:

Perch and Crappie fillets, mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm good!  makes me want to go fishing.  :fishin: :fishin:
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Re: Perch anyone??
« Reply #12 on: March 26, 2010, 07:47:11 PM »
That's a whopper! I caught one 13" in potholes a few years ago, it hit a 5" grub. I didn't even get a hook in him, he just swallowed it and couldn't spit it out. Not nearly as fat as that pig, but it's the biggest I've ever caught.
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Re: Perch anyone??
« Reply #13 on: March 27, 2010, 08:34:50 AM »
I've caught big perch in the Dakotas, lots of 1-2lbers..Nothing that big..Eat it or mount it??  Reminds me of this crappie I caught several years ago..I released it.  Should have mounted it?  
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Re: Perch anyone??
« Reply #14 on: March 27, 2010, 08:39:19 AM »
 :drool: :drool:

I can't even begin to think how much Perch I ate growing up.....whole camping trips nothing but pancakes in the  morn, perch for diner...

 


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