Love your channel man, been sifting through all of your videos lately.. I fish the bay of green bay frequently with Wisconsin Wings and Walleyes. Always thankful to live so close to such a great fishery. Pretty sure we were fishing by you up in Oconto a couple months ago.
@@Shad-e6f I’m not a professional and i don’t do this for a living. What i do is no different than the average joe, maybe getting to fish once a week. Obviously i don’t have anything against veterans or disabled anglers but if i have 1 day to go fishing it’s going to be with friends/ family. I just don’t have time to do it all.. 🇺🇸
I sure wish we had a fishable population in Alabama or Tennessee. We usually only catch 2 or 3 a year, incidental catches fishing for sauger. But every time I go up north I eat some wonderful yellow perch. Best I’ve ever had was at Port Clinton at Jolly Roger’s great video COLE
Hi. Great video of perch fishing. Do you share the location you were fishing? What boat launch you went out of? I’m from Racine, and would like to drive up and give it a shot.
@@RickKristopeit thanks! No i don’t typically share exact location in my videos, really don’t want 10,000+ people knowing where i was. Best bet is to do your research and send it. That’s the best way to learn
When perch fishing (and bluegill) I will always have 3 different king of setups. Bead/egg sinker with a hook or small jighead, gold hook and split shot, and a slip bobber, which I usually also have a bead/egg sinker and a small jighead. I have similar results as you had where one or the other works best. A few weeks ago when I was perch fishing in Sturgeon Bay the current was so heavy the only thing that worked well was a wolf river rig! So that's another one to try, plus the advantage of a wolf river rig is you can bounce the weight on the bottom, which stirs it up and sometimes keeps the perch around longer!
@@fishlovme it’s always a good idea to have multiple different perch rigs ready to go for the day. Seems like they always want something a little different every day. Or like you said, somedays it’s wavy, flat calm, lots of current, ect. I’ve got a tackle box dedicated to perch fishing so i can tie up any rig i need to for that day.
Great video, with some tips! Is that the east shore this time? I normally see you on the west shore, so if you're on the east shore this time it surprises me a bit. I usually fish up in Sturgeon Bay for the perch. They're making a good comeback, though still nothing like it was in the late 80's/early 90's!
@@fishlovme thanks! I do prefer the west shore typically because i live on the west side but i was on the east shore this time. Just depends on weather conditions and wind direction for me. Hopefully the perch continue to thrive in the Bay for a long time! We love to catch and eat those tasty things
@@bad_vaporizer this time of year a good majority of the perch are starting to move out of the mud and up into the shallows. I like to look for good rock/gravel transitions close to deeper water or good green weeds. In this video i was targeting rock/ gravel transitions close to the mud
@CNCoutdoors do you use side imaging to scan for the transition lines? How long does it take you to locate perch on side imaging? For 2 years I've been trying on bago and Greenbay and it always takes me hours and I still don't see them. I also have lowrance and so I don't have mega side imaging. Does it take you long to locate them?
@@bad_vaporizer i mainly use my side imaging to locate transitions and or anything i think the perch would be relating to. It’s pretty difficult to see the actual perch (especially if they’re in gravel/ rock) unless they’re schooled up tight or they’re big perch. Most days it takes multiple spot changes and figuring out what type of bottom they are relating to.
@CNCoutdoors that makes sense. So when you stop is it a guess and then hope for it? If not, you keep moving to similar bottoms? On the bay the gobies always take my crawlers by the reefs.
@@bad_vaporizeryes, pretty much an educated guess. Typically involves some guesswork and bouncing around to find what you’re looking for. On the bay when I’m fishing around rock I’ll always have minnows because of the gobies. If I’m fishing weeds i can typically get away with crawlers/ leaches/ hellgrammites but have to keep it off bottom at least 1.5-2’
