How do you target a perch in a lake?

Fishing piers and docks are especially good perching spots during warm months. If your favorite lake has one, pick a comfortable sitting spot, bait a lightly weighted hook with a small live minnow, release the bait to the bottom, then relax until a perch bites. Most times, that’s all it takes.

Where do white perch go in summer?

White perches like to be warm but not too warm. Therefore, they like to stay in shadowed waters. Furthermore, they will stay in the shallow water during summer but mostly the shallow parts of deeper water.

Where can I find white perch in a lake?

Some White Perch Tips

Know the Best Fishing Times. White perch congregate in large numbers in the river and lake to spawn approximately from April through June.
Pick the Right Bait. One of the most effective ways of quickly catching white perch is by using natural bait.
Aim at White Perch Hot Spots.
Choose the Right Technique.

How do you catch white perch in the spring?

During their spring spawning runs, white perch are caught with live and cut baits as well as artificial lures. In brackish creeks of coastal areas, bloodworms are a favorite bait for white perch. Other popular baits for white perch include grass shrimp, small minnows, crayfish, or other local favorites.

What is the best white perch bait?

Small stickbaits, like the Rapala Ultralight Minnow, are the perfect size for white perch. Catching perch isn’t complicated. They’ll take hair jigs or soft plastics, inline spinners, and stickbaits. Fishing bait is also effective.

What’s the best bait for perch fishing?

The best set-up is the hook sinker with a worm bait. Although you can also use a spinner tipped with a worm or a small jig head with a worm or minnow bait. Perch fishing with worms tends to produce the best results, but maggots, prawns and lobworms are also amongst the best bait for catching perch.

Where do white perch go in winter?

Like the yellow perch found in tidal creeks, white perch will bite right through the winter months (even through the ice, when tidal rivers freeze over).

Are white perch bottom feeders?

White perch are opportunistic feeders with voracious appetities. They’ll eat almost anything so you can catch them with many different kinds of bait. Chubs and silversides fished along the bottom also work for tidal and estuary white perch.

How deep do perch go in the winter?

The typical depths are 19 to 36 feet. Shallower mudflats in 8 to 12 feet are used primarily when the vegetation is still green. If plants are dead, perch move to deeper flats. A camera tells the story quickest.

What is the best time to fish perch?

Part 2 of 2: Fishing for Perch

During late spring and early summer, early morning and early evening hours are best.
During late summer, late afternoon and evening is best.
In autumn, the best times are morning, and late afternoon evening.
During the winter, the low light of late afternoon-evening is good.

What do perch bite on?

When it comes to perch fishing, live minnows are arguably the most effective bait there is. Perch can’t resist struggling live bait. I’ve also found that live minnows consistently seem to catch larger perch.

What time of year does perch spawn?

spring

What size hooks for perch?

4 to 8

Where can I find perch in spring?

1 FIND THE HOTSPOTS. Schools of big yellow perch hug the bottom in open water, usually between 10 and 30 feet deep. Use a lake map and electronics to locate gradually sloping bottoms and mid-lake reefs with scattered submerged weeds.

How do you fish for perch in the winter?

One way that Brosdahl attracts perch is by jigging a Northland Buck-Shot Flutter Spoon or a Northland Rippin’ Shad. The rattle chambers in these baits quickly attract roaming perch. I’ve found the tactic effective, as well.

Can you fish for perch all year round?

Perch are one of the few predator species we can genuinely target all year round, so I will try to cover how my approach changes through out the seasons across different venues.

Is perch fishing good in winter?

Added to this that the Carp are at their most active and fishing baits desirable to Perch like Prawn, Worm, Maggots and Caster are just as desirable to the large number of Carp present making it hard to target the Perch at this time. In the winter months with the temperatures low, the carp activity is greatly reduced.

Are perch active in winter?

While perch are still active in winter, their metabolism is depressed by the frigid waters. As evening approaches, perch retreat to secluded spots along the bottom and become dormant for the night.