02-14-2009, 04:41 AM
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] You are right, perch are usually deeper in warmer months. That's because they are classed as a "cool" [cool]
water fish, intermediate between trout that are cold water fish and bass which are warm water fish. I've had luck trolling in y float tube for bigger perch just off bottom in deeper (and cooler) water using a jig and worm. I'd kick my legs just slow enough with enough line out to occasionally bump bottom with the jig. That way I new I was just off bottom where the perch usually were. From time to time I would feel that tell tail tap tap of a perch and then hook em.
DeeCee
I ice fish not because I love the cold, but because that is the only time I can impress my wife, by walking on water.[
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] You are right, perch are usually deeper in warmer months. That's because they are classed as a "cool" [cool]water fish, intermediate between trout that are cold water fish and bass which are warm water fish. I've had luck trolling in y float tube for bigger perch just off bottom in deeper (and cooler) water using a jig and worm. I'd kick my legs just slow enough with enough line out to occasionally bump bottom with the jig. That way I new I was just off bottom where the perch usually were. From time to time I would feel that tell tail tap tap of a perch and then hook em.
DeeCee
I ice fish not because I love the cold, but because that is the only time I can impress my wife, by walking on water.[
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