02-07-2011, 12:28 AM
That was fast!! For fun, what were you doing before?
In case others are reading trying to learn, still don't always kill em, and I'm not great at crappie. but........
Take 3 baits... some days they hit everything, some days they only hit perch meat..
Get it deep fast.. they can't bite what ain't there, and they will be at least pretty deep.
You'll get bites in every hole, alot, but there are bites and then there are BITES. If you're not getting bit every minute, you aren't on the right bunch of fish.
I used to use little lures cuz they're panfish, but perch have a pretty big mouth. They bite kinda lite, not cuz they are taking nibbles, it's cuz they put it in their mouths and just sit there. Hook should not fit in a 4" perch's mouth, but comfortably in a 9" perch's mouth.
Get an attractor spoon and make it flash, but don't jig constantly. Youtube videos proved to me that constant jigging for coldblooded perch is almost too much for their foggy brains. On TV I saw a guy fishing a hali-type who dropped it, got it off the bottom, jigged it twice, counted 3, and set the hook.
Use glow....
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In case others are reading trying to learn, still don't always kill em, and I'm not great at crappie. but........
Take 3 baits... some days they hit everything, some days they only hit perch meat..
Get it deep fast.. they can't bite what ain't there, and they will be at least pretty deep.
You'll get bites in every hole, alot, but there are bites and then there are BITES. If you're not getting bit every minute, you aren't on the right bunch of fish.
I used to use little lures cuz they're panfish, but perch have a pretty big mouth. They bite kinda lite, not cuz they are taking nibbles, it's cuz they put it in their mouths and just sit there. Hook should not fit in a 4" perch's mouth, but comfortably in a 9" perch's mouth.
Get an attractor spoon and make it flash, but don't jig constantly. Youtube videos proved to me that constant jigging for coldblooded perch is almost too much for their foggy brains. On TV I saw a guy fishing a hali-type who dropped it, got it off the bottom, jigged it twice, counted 3, and set the hook.
Use glow....
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