What is the best time of the year for yellow perch?

[bluecrab]

Is it not about the time when yellow perch start coming in heavy? Or have I missed them yet again.
I know they are open all year but when to they run?

[3E971]

Geographical vernacular tends to change in different parts of the U.S. do you mean these?

[bluecrab]

To be more specific
What is the best time in the Chesapeake Bay to fish for Perca flavescens?

[reds]

To be more specific
What is the best time in the Chesapeake Bay to fish for Perca flavescens?

February through middle of April. All depends on the weather.

[bluecrab]

February through middle of April. All depends on the weather.

Thanks.
I remember fishing the shores of dundee with him in really cold windy weather.
But we went fishing whenever.

Is the weather fish or fisherman dependent :-) ie you won't go out when it is bad? Or the fish hit better  when the weather is fare or worse?

[bluecrab]

We use to use grass shrimp or minnows.
Why or when would you use one over the other?

[Fishbonzs]

Catching them now

[C-Hawk18]

Catching them now

^^^^^What he said.....no minnow nor grass shrimp.....Plastics & Metals

[bluecrab]

^^^^^What he said.....no minnow nor grass shrimp.....Plastics & Metals

Really just using jigs and mister twisters will nab them?
I have always thought minnows and grass shrimp only. I have a hard time finding that kind of bait around these parts.

What sizes (plastics/metals) do you use?

[mdjohn]

I was catching one yellow perch every 15 minutes and the guy next to me was catching one almost every cast.

after getting to know him - I asked

he told me when to go and he showed me the bait and the method he used and made me promise not to tell

it worked

I was catching a fish almost every cast. I learned a technique and bait for catching carp and also white perch. Then it was nothing to it.

It did kinda of take the excitement out of catching fish. since you did the same thing every time and caught a fish almost every  time. It became routine.

 

So, you won't get bored with fishing and since I promised - I won't tell you when, the bait and the method

 

did the same thing for rockfish
the boat ride took longer than catching your limit of fish
 

[bluecrab]

I hear ya MD.
I only ask to get an Idea.
I believe I know what to use, I just like to hear what other people use.
I am and has always been a "poller" type person.
Always interested in what other folks are using. Asking questions etc.

I just never was into the plastics and stuff to know. I always used something form the bait store for fishing.
;-)
Blue

[mdjohn]

some fisherman frown on using bait - alive or dead. Takes away some of the challenge and then you are feeding them

got to say, I have seen fish steal a bait and take off but I don't recall a fish steal a lure and take off.

and I doubt if any one on this site is foolish enough to publish really good info on the world wide internet "for the world to see for the next twenty years" about where, when and how to catch a certain fish.

 

talk face to face with some oldtimers down eastern shore

 

[rollinrock]

sounds like you might have fishhed with lou napfell md? that is some of the same things he told me when i was a boy.

[bluecrab]

I did not realize that some folks do not like bait.
I made the assumption that lures might frowned upon more.
Oh well.
I have a few spots I am familiar with. Just need to make the two hour drive :-(
Thanks for the insight.

[mdjohn]

I did not realize that some folks do not like bait.
I made the assumption that lures might frowned upon more.
Oh well.
I have a few spots I am familiar with. Just need to make the two hour drive :-(
Thanks for the insight.

don't ever talk to a fly fisherman about putting a dead bait on his line
 

most that do catch and release use lures. ---------  Don't even know if you can use real bait in bass tournaments
 

avid fisherman frown on using bait - It DON"T take much talent to stick a hook up a worms [arse], then sit and wait
 

[jack1747]

some fisherman frown on using bait - alive or dead. Takes away some of the challenge and then you are feeding them

got to say, I have seen fish steal a bait and take off but I don't recall a fish steal a lure and take off.

and I doubt if any one on this site is foolish enough to publish really good info on the world wide internet "for the world to see for the next twenty years" about where, when and how to catch a certain fish.

 

talk face to face with some oldtimers down eastern shore
 

Don't bother..... Everyone knows there ain't "noth,in" to catch on the shore... 

[mdjohn]

Don't bother..... Everyone knows there ain't "noth,in" to catch on the shore...  

good point - the lower down the eastern shore, the better

and tell them you're from Baltimore City

they have a special place in their hearts for ballmore city

just kiddin

 

[jack1747]

good point - the lower down the eastern shore, the better
and it always helps to buy them a beer or two or four

at least it always worked for me

 

Whoa there fella...  Stop at the MD/VA line There is no'thin south of there but giant mosquitoes, harable big bite'n flies and ugly women.    No fish. No crabs. The beach is gone. Not even beer.  PS: Don't try to come north on the CBBT either. It's full of water.                                     

[mdjohn]

Whoa there fella...   Stop at the MD/VA line There is no'thin south of there but giant mosquitoes, harable big bite'n flies and ugly women.   No fish. No crabs. The beach is gone. Not even beer.  PS: Don't try to come north on the CBBT either. It's full of water.                                    

don't forget ticks, jiggers, snakes and wombats

but those mosquitoes - had one bite through a leather belt, to get to my skin. You can hear them break branches when they walk.

ah yes the women. I try to keep to the upscale trailer parks. Wheels gotta be off the trailers.

 

note: the pretty butterflies on "her" tee shirt

[bluecrab]

Whoa there fella...  Stop at the MD/VA line There is no'thin south of there but giant mosquitoes, harable big bite'n flies and ugly women.    No fish. No crabs. The beach is gone. Not even beer.  PS: Don't try to come north on the CBBT either. It's full of water.                                     

Yup I never catch anything on Va Shore!

[bluecrab]

and tell them you're from Baltimore City

 

I don't tell that to anyone anymore!!

[Dreampixels]

Whats a Wombat?

[shedking]

there all over the eastern shore, Just ask Ravendave

[TAXI CRAB]

I think I hit one the other day it put a big dent in my van but what do I know I wasn't paying attention.    

[Summertop]

note: the pretty butterflies on "her" tee shirt

Looks like Flacco with that fu man chu!