SACRAMETO PERCH

[mikecromaine]

DOES ANYONE HAVE A PIC OF ONE. I WAS ALSO WONDERING WERE THEY MIGHT BE COUGHT. JUST WONDERING I SAW IT IN THE PROCLATMATION AND IT MADE ME GO HUMMM
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[fish4fish]

I think that they are still in the same lake as the record came out of, it is clear in the heck out west, i think that the name of it is presuss, something like that
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[acey]

Mike- As far as I know the only place in Utah to have Sacramento perch is Preuss, better known as Garrison Reservoir. I fished there several times years ago and caught channel catfish, but no perch. Rod, the guy I was with, caught two fish that we assumed were the Sacramento perch, but not sure. The reservoir gets drawn down for irrigation, so I am not sure if any have survived still after all these years. To get there travel west from Delta on US 6 & 50 ninety miles to the Nevada border. Just before the Border Inn turn south toward the town of Garrison. Go through town and several miles to the south to find the reservoir along the west side of the main highway going toward Milford. I think it is about 11 miles south of US 6 & 50. There wasn't any facilities there last time I was there, just primitive camping. You can camp several places around Baker, NV just back up the road. The best is at the Lehman caves area in the Great Basin National Park. It is worth your time to take a tour of the cave and see the stalagtites and stalagmites. If you go for a road trip let me know how you do. Acey
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[mikecromaine]

Thank you so much for the info if I go there I will leave a post
thanks again
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[Utcatman]

hey acey was there any size to the cats that you caught??? just curious, always lookin for a new cattin lake... thanks
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[acey]

Joe- I think they were around 18 inches long. It has been about eleven years since I have been there, so I don't know what the water conditions have been through since then. There are a lot of rocks on the north east side and it looked like quite a few prople had been fishing from them. Where we caught the catfish was in the deeper channel going to the north from the rocks towards the dam. A friend and I were float tubing there at the time. They put up a pretty good pull fighting them from a tube. A local farmer, Carl Dearden, who is now deceased used to do a lot of business with me in Delta. I asked him about the fish in the reservoir and he confirmed at the time there were lots of big channel cats in there and often in the summer they would get sucked through the dam into the irrigation ditches running to his fields in Garrison. His son would take a pitchfork and walk the ditches looking for them when the water was turned off and getting shallow and stab them with the fork to get them out to take home. Carl said some went ten pounds, but I never saw them. No guarantees now. Acey
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[UintaIce]

They look like a cross between a crappie and a perch; the body shape being like a crappie, but with wide vertical stripes.
The state record came from Garrison Reservoir (Pruess) and weighed 4 pounds, 5 ounces. And all that was packed into 17" of length, and a 15" girth.
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[IceFishingGod]

Mike,
X-man and I discussed trying to go after these guys a year or two ago. He reseached it and decided it wasn't worth going after them in Utah. I don't remember the exact reason but I think it was because they were not stocked since the lake was drained. X if your still around can you shed some light on this.

IFG

[RiverRat77]

K, maybe somebody can tell me if this is whats in the bluegill ponds besides bluegill out at B. Lake. Fsh4Fun and I caught some of these chunky little fish that we guessed were white crappie or a cross between bluegill and crappie. They were beautiful fish but we had no idea what exactly they were. I got a picture but I haven't had it scanned or even developed yet but I'll try to post it when I get the pics back. The biggest one I caught was about six inches is all so they might have been something totally different.
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[Mc_Lennon]

I think their something like tilapia. People have a habit of planting stuff into those lakes out there. I've heard of pleco's and even a big oscar coming out of there.
One of my dad's friends said that thats what they looked like to him. And last fall when my uncle was out there he saw a big silver fish in the main lake. He couldn't catch it, so no positive ID. This is all just what I've heard. Who knows if it proves true or not.
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[RiverRat77]

It basically looked like the fin formations and size of a crappie but with sky blue/almost white bars down the sides and the rest of the body was a grayish color..... Man they were pretty and I seemed to catch them suspended about a foot to six inches off the bottom while the bluegills were out cruising around in groups.... I think an Oscar would be fun to catch....maybe its time to invest in a big tank at home to fish in or something.... [] Just kidding. I just want to go out and get some more of em.... maybe in a month or so.... I can't wait to get some topwater action on some of our local lakes... I just got rehooked on my last trip out.... what a stinkin rush.....
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[Catatafish7]

I have seen these strange fish out at Blue Lake as well. Looked for a long time on the internet and couldn't find anything that quite looked like them. I've spent hours casting everything in the tacklebox at them and haven't been able to get a hit. The ones I saw were all good sized...at least a foot in lenght.
Not a perch, not a crappie, not a bass, not anything I've ever seen before except out there. It bugs me. What the hell are those fish?
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[Mc_Lennon]

Yah, that sounds about like a Tilapia. Atleast I hope thats what they are. I know of a few aquarium fish that could also fit the build, among them calvus. If their in there let the big man up stairs help the baby blue gills.
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[GEEZER]

I SPENT MY PRESCHOOL YEARS IN BAKER & GREW UP IN ELY NEV. 50 OR SO YEARS AGO WE WOULD CATCH THOSE PERCH OUT OF PRUESS LAKE BY THE SACKS FULL. AT THE TIME WE THOUGHT THEY WERE CRAPPIE. THERE WERE A COUPLE OF SPRING FED PONDS IN NORTH SPRING VALLEY NEV. THAT HAD THEM ALSO.

I'M TOLD THAT THEY WERE BROUGHT FROM WALKER LAKE NEV. & PUT IN SPRING VALLEY SOMETIME IN THE LATE 30'S OR EARLY 40'S. SOMEBODY DID A "BUCKET BIOLOGY" TRANSPLANT TO PRUESS LAKE.

TWENTY-FIVE OR SO YEARS AGO I ASKED THE UTAH FISH & GAME ABOUT THEM & WAS TOLD THAT THEY HAD DONE A GILL NETTING AT PRUESS TO CHECK ON A LARGEMOUTH BASS STOCKING. THEY SAID SOME OF THE LARGEMOUTH HAD SACRAMENTO PERCH FRY IN THEIR STOMACHS. I BEAT FEET OUT THERE TO SEE IF I COULD CATCH ANY & THE TRIP WAS A BUST.

WE USED TO CATCH THEM IN MARCH OR APRIL AS I REMEMBER DOWN ON THE SOUTH END WHERE THE STREAM FROM BIG SPRING ENTERS THE LAKE. ALL WE HAD AT THAT TIME WERE COLORADO SPINNERS WITH A HUNK OF WORM & WE COULD CATCH ONE NEARLY EVERY CAST.

THERE HAVE BEEN SOME AWFUL DROUTH YEARS BETWEEN THEN & NOW SO I DON'T KNOW IF THERE WOULD BE ANY LEFT IN PRUESS. I DO KNOW THERE AREN'T ANY LEFT IN SPRING VALLEY.

I WOULDN'T MIND RUNNING BACK OUT THERE LATER THIS SPRING TO JUST CHECK IT OUT AGAIN. IF SOMEBODY WANTS TO GO ALONG, LET'S GET TOGETHER.
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[mikecromaine]

HUMMM SENCE I STARTED THIS I WOULD SAY I WOULD LIKE TO TAKE MY TOON OUT THERE IF SOMEONE WANTS TO SHOW ME THE ROPES
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[GEEZER]

I DON'T OWN A 'TOON OR BELLYBOAT BUT I DO KNOW THAT COUNTRY LIKE THE BACK OF MY HAND. LET'S KINDA KEEP TOUCH LATER THIS SPRING.
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[fishnutts]

Here is a picture of a Sacramento Perch (if i posted it right). I make a Trip to Lake Crowely California to fish for them every year. In June and early July we vertical Jig for them during the spawn (6 to 10 feet of water). when the spawn is over the Perch move to deeeper water (30 to 40 feet) and suspend at about 12 to 15 feet deep, at this point we actually Troll for them (1 mph,lead core or downriggers) using small crawdad or crick hopper lures, or any small crankbait style lure that has plenty of wobble action. (colors that we found work best are -- all white, orange top & white bottom, purple top & white bottom). If a breeze kicks up we then drift and jig (white or yellow jig tipped with a crappie nibble or piece of a nightcrawler). I hope this gives you a few tips if you decide to try for them, I to have been very tempted to one day visit Garrison Resevoir, just haven't got around to it yet.


FIND'EM and WIND'EM
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[Red-head]

I saw them at Blue Lake as well. I was diving so I tried to chase them a bit. They were skittish, not like the bass, bluegill, or crappie. Georgeous fish. If you ever figure out what the devil they are, PLEASE pm me and let me know.
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[wormandbobber]

Before Minersville Resevoir was first drained and the dam repaired about 6-7 years ago, I would occasionally catch Sacramento Perch there. They were illegally stocked and had begun to establish a pretty good population. My bet is that they had been brought in from Garrison Reservoir...there is a good bunch of Fishermen from Beaver County who like to catch them.
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