Yellow Perch

Yellow Perch

Yellow perch have to be some of the most aggressive and "user friendly" fish that there are out there in the freshwater realm of fishing.  I have recently found them as a target species and they have more than exceeded any expectations for them that I might previously have held.  

Yellow perch do not have very discerning tastes when it comes to the baits they will hit.  I have had a great deal of luck with them hitting similar colors to themselves in the areas I fish.  They seem to have cannibalistic tendencies, but they seem to be voracious and are very fun to fight.

Yellow perch have a lot more meat on them than I thought they might, but are not so easy to fillet as some other fish.  I have found that scaling them first and then filleting them seems to keep the edge on a fillet knife much more easily.  They have quite a bit of meat over top of their ribs and have a very firm fillet.  Even the small fish have a good fillet on them.  

I have had more fun catching these little orange and green warriors than most anything and they have been very consistent throughout the year regardless of the season.  They seem to be more consistently caught at very slow speeds or even sitting still, but I have caught quite a few on crank baits at certain times of year and they hit them at a pretty fast clip.  These are fast moving up the ladder of popularity with me and I hope to enjoy many years to come fishing them.  I am thankful that these little orange titans are out there and have been certainly blessed to do battle with them.  

Matthew 13:45-50