12-17-2009, 07:47 PM
For the Perch to be of any size you need weed growth under water. Dropping a camera or getting down on your hands and knees will tell you a lot about the size of the fish. No weed growth, small fish. The next thing I look for is an irregular bottom. Perch tend to move along small ridges in the bottom structure. Fishing up against one of these ridges will be much more productive than even 5' away. A lot of times if one rod receives more bites then the rest you can look down there and find that rod is fishing next to weeds or a small ridge running along the bottom.
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