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I always see everybodys posts that they catch tons of perch and crappie and I go out and can't really dial in on them I catch about ten every time what lure should I be using were are some good spots on the lake please help I want to have the pics. Like every body els that have over 30 plus fish haha
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I am willing to help, what do you use and where are ya fishing? For perch during the day i have found that the bst time is right in the am when the sun comes up, i have fished both the narrows as well as browning and cemetary all three locations have produced well. Normally i fish in 40 to 55 ft of water with my line just a crank off the bottom. I normally use a swedish pimple, or a marmooshka or some kind of small jig tipped with a waxie. After i catch a perch or two i cut them up and use small chunks as well as eyeballs!! Once you find a good school the action is pretty hot. The trick is finding em hope this helps
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Browning Point, Drill a hole in 15-25 ' and drop down a tandum rigged chart tic fly setup tipped with crawler. Hit the bottom a few times, reel up 1" and then wait a few seconds. Strike indicators are a must....lite bite. If no hits in 5 mins move to another spot till you find the fish.
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Thanks every body info really helped I got abot 50 today
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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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Wrong bait I guess I used a Swedish pimple and a ratfink with cast master as a weight with wax worm and that seemed to do the trick
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Sounds about right. I will either use a jig or an ice fly tipped with wax worms. They can't leave it alone.[cool]
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