Catching big Perch on a fly.

[Bill Kiene semi-retired]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyiFalGKf_A

Denmark......

[MHeuch]

Are there any waters in N. Cal that have good yellow perch fishing?

Mark H.

[lee s.]

Copco Lake, above Irongate damn on the Klamath has yellow perch. We have pestered many of them with buggers and nymphs and small baitfish immi's.....but NOT nearly the size of the European fish.
....lee s.

[John Sv]

My personal record yellow perch is over 14 inches, back in Chesapeake Bay.*
*i did not catch it, I was on the oars and my buddy did.**
** it was caught on a crankbait***
*** it was about 30 years ago and we were young teenagers. It might not have been that big but we both remember it that way.

[Bill Kiene semi-retired]

We have Sacramento Perch around here?

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The Sacramento perch (Archoplites interruptus) is an endangered sunfish (family Centrarchidae) native to the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta, Pajaro, and Salinas River areas in California, but widely introduced throughout the western United States.

The Sacramento perch's native habitat is in sluggish, heavily vegetated, waters of sloughs and lakes. It can reach a maximum overall length of 61 cm (24 in) and a maximum weight of 3.6 kg (7.9 lb), and it has been reported to live as long as six years. Its adaptability to different habitats is high, and it can survive on a wide variety of food sources. As young perch, they consume mainly small crustaceans and eventually move on to insect larvae and then smaller fish as adults.

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Historically, the Sacramento perch was found throughout the Central Valley of California at elevations below 100 m. The Sacramento perch was very popular for recreation fishing. It was so abundant that this species was commonly used as a food fish eaten regularly.[3] It inhabited sloughs, slow-moving rivers of the Pajaro and Salinas rivers, and lakes with emergent vegetation such as Clear Lake.[4] This species has been eliminated from 90% of its natural habitat due to habitat destruction, egg predation by invasive fish species, and interspecific competition. Sacramento perch are quite rare now and found primarily in warm, turbid, and alkaline farm ponds, reservoirs, and recreational lakes that it has been introduced into. There are only two native populations of Sacramento perch that are still maintaining themselves and those reside in Clear Lake and Alameda Creek drainage as well as gravel pit ponds in the Calaveras Reservoir.

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I heard they are in Pyramid Lake, Nevada.

Where else?

7.9# is a big perch......maybe we need to go after them?

15636

[albiec22]

We have Sacramento Perch around here?

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The Sacramento perch (Archoplites interruptus) is an endangered sunfish (family Centrarchidae) native to the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta, Pajaro, and Salinas River areas in California, but widely introduced throughout the western United States.

The Sacramento perch's native habitat is in sluggish, heavily vegetated, waters of sloughs and lakes. It can reach a maximum overall length of 61 cm (24 in) and a maximum weight of 3.6 kg (7.9 lb), and it has been reported to live as long as six years. Its adaptability to different habitats is high, and it can survive on a wide variety of food sources. As young perch, they consume mainly small crustaceans and eventually move on to insect larvae and then smaller fish as adults.

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Historically, the Sacramento perch was found throughout the Central Valley of California at elevations below 100 m. The Sacramento perch was very popular for recreation fishing. It was so abundant that this species was commonly used as a food fish eaten regularly.[3] It inhabited sloughs, slow-moving rivers of the Pajaro and Salinas rivers, and lakes with emergent vegetation such as Clear Lake.[4] This species has been eliminated from 90% of its natural habitat due to habitat destruction, egg predation by invasive fish species, and interspecific competition. Sacramento perch are quite rare now and found primarily in warm, turbid, and alkaline farm ponds, reservoirs, and recreational lakes that it has been introduced into. There are only two native populations of Sacramento perch that are still maintaining themselves and those reside in Clear Lake and Alameda Creek drainage as well as gravel pit ponds in the Calaveras Reservoir.

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I heard they are in Pyramid Lake, Nevada.

Where else?

7.9# is a big perch......maybe we need to go after them?

15636

And they are fun to fish for when you're bored of indicator fishing with midges...