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9" Yellow Perch 19 months



Not bad considering the largest one I stocked this spring was maybe 5-1/2".

That is very good growth especially if the fish was 5" at stocking which means it grew about 0.68mm per day depending on exactly when the day it was stocked. If the fish was less than 5" at stocking then growth was around 0.68mm/day. Good growth IMO for a mature YP which was close to 19 months old - hatched April 2011.

In the last ten days I have caught two 9" YP and one 7-1/2", this is the first I have seen any of the YP since they were stocked. I did put 11 (3-5") YP in the pond at the begining of April that I got from TJ and then another 30 (4-6") went in the third week in April.

I was a little worried the heat this summer might have taken it's toll on them, surface temps were near 90 degrees with no aeration. I am pretty sure the YP haven't been eating pellets, just GSH, FHM, and the "other" usual stuff.

Outstanding! Congrats amigo you'll be filleting in no time!

Thanks TJ! I would not have stocked any YP if you hadn't have talked me into to it.

You'll be happy you did when you roll those fillets in beer batter and drop into the peanut oil!

Shorty,

Nice fish. I think yellow perch are one of the most beautiful fish species with that yellow gold color.

As far as worried, Bill Cody and I have found the ones under 11 or 12 inches seem to take the warm water pretty good. It's the larger 12 to 13 plus fish that have a hard time but I didn't loose too many of them this year either.

I've had fish up to 8 or 9 inches in cages near the surface during the summer with no problems.

Wow. Congrats Shorty.

great fish!

What did u catch tbem on .? Bobber & worm? Stcked my lake with yp & still no luck
Do they bite better when the water temps get colder. Tips on catching them would surely be appreciated

Great looking fish cant wait to taste one yummmmm

Minnows, red worm's, chunks of crawler, shrimp, jig's, crawfish pieces... the list goes on. We mostly use small minnows, what they call Perch Minnows up here. They are of various kind's but usually about 2" or less. At least in the lakes, YP school, so you have to find them.

My BIL was going to add a big pontoon to his charter service, and call it the "Perch Patrol". Would have been cool, but family issues in another state messed that all up.

Dipped in your favorite batter and fried in peanut oil is pretty darn good eats.

2" (green pumkin) curly tail jig bounced off the bottom.

JohnT - if you have the YP in with LMB you may not have lots of perch available. If YP are common they are willing bitters and pretty easy to catch on any of the above mentioned baits. If you are having trouble catching YP then my guess is relatively few YP are present. In weedy ponds YP will survive and flourish.

Thanks cody lots of weeds I dont have .killed most off when I killed off lilly pads
May have to try another stocking.

Without some weed cover or extensive brushy structure YP have a really hard time surviving unless the YP are beyond the forage size of your most common size of larger bass. This means that sizes of YP for supplimental stocking should be at least 8" and 9"-10" is even better when in sparse weed cover LMbass ponds. LMB at 16+" can easily eat 8" YP and they do it regurlarly. Scotty's 9.0" YP above has the 2.0" body height of a 5.2"-5.5" long BG. A 14" long LMB has the mouth gape of 2.5". Consider the fate of those cigar shaped 4"-6" YP with minimal weed cover with hungry bass present. Where to hide??? Fish structure just attracts YP where LMB are waiting for their next meal.