Simcoe Jumbo Perch Onfire now! - Odd Pic

[Slayingm]

I had folks out on lake Simcoe charter this past weekend for Perch and depite the screaming winds we managed to slow the drift with x2 wind socks and caught approx 100 nice perch over the day. Various jigging spoons and Rapala jigging Raps all worked on Ultralight setups on 4lb line with the key to success. The key depths for us were in the 25 to 28' range with many fish icaught in the 10 to 13" range with one breaking the 14.50" mark! We released most of the fish but kept a few for the table. Unfortuanately the camera batteries died in the boat but have a couple of pics below of a few I brought home for a nice feed! I kept one really strange coloured big perch that had the colours more of a Walleye then a perch and in 30 yrs of fishing Simcoe have never seen one like this.... it had no barring or typical Perch colour patterns as you can see in the pic below.....


Also, most of the fish had shiners in their belly's but a number also had lots of smaller crawfish as seen in this pic!...no wonder they taste so great!!



I expect the action to continue to be good out there for the next few weeks so if your planning on going please dress appropriately and remember saftey 1st. The wind on Simcoe and falling water temps this time of year demand respect.

Take care and good Fish'n.... Greg.

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[ASK]

Good work Slayingm

sounds like good trip with fishing

Two weeks ago I and my daughters went to ottawa river and we were having a good trip with a perch 16 pcs medium size and hundreds of them we realesed.

Thank you for your advice.

ASK

[Chevy Champagne]

the different coulored perch
iv caught one like that to it was in dirty water though...
maby thats why?
maby breeding with a rockbass or smallie i donno

[Fishing 24/7]

i think it depends on what they feed.

but i dont know im no fish biologist.

great catch!

[steve-hamilton]

greg, i sent you a pm on aaron's site, requesting your services.

let me know if you have not received it.

thanks,

Steve

[wolfe]

Nice looking haul of perch. The pale looking one is a bit odd; I guess it's just a genetic fluke, but who knows? The belly on it lets you know it's eating well, so assume it was healthy!

W.

[baz fish]

Some nice perch you got there guys . Me all start to fish my usual perch hole on the St Lawrence real soon.

[JZ]

I was on simcoe in the summer and was using crawfish crank bait looking for the giant smallies and hit nothing but perch, they love them and simcoe has tonnes of crawfish

[tman12]

WOW..... big perch
keep the lines wet!
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