aznflycaster
Senior Member
Been catching a good bit of yellow perch and want to keep a few. Looked in the hand book and did not see them listed for length or creel. Are they called something else or not listed?
they FILET perfectly! Just be CAREFUL of the rear edge of the gill plate, it comes to a point in the middle and believe me they can FILET YOU BACK if you put your wet finger against that point!!! ....
I have caught and eaten a few yellow perch over the years. I find them to be delicious,hard to scale though. I've never seen big concentrations,the most I've ever known of are at Lake Juliet.
Yellow perch will go after crappie minnows. I've not seen bag/size limits either. Maybe they are like yankees,no one wants to acknowledge them living here. I would say to you,try some.
Just here collecting my war spoils. What would a bunch of Southerners do without Yankees to gripe about? Oh yeah, I remember.
The same goes for "yellow bass" which are also a "non game" fish in Georgia, but are in Alabama. I've got plenty of scars from just taking out the hook. Sorry for the hi-jack.It's not a gill plate. it's a RAZOR BLADE First time I caught one (long, long time ago) I learned my lesson...the hard way.
That’s a monster! I don’t think hunk I’ve ever seen one that big.scale?!
they FILET perfectly! Just be CAREFUL of the rear edge of the gill plate, it comes to a point in the middle and believe me they can FILET YOU BACK if you put your wet finger against that point!!! Put your 'hold' thumb [I think, I just do it and don't think about where my fingers/thumb is] into the gill area UNDER the razor sharp gill plate when fileting them.
Tasty? YES
tough scales? YES
easy to filet and cook? YES
I tried the roe this spring because they were so big, it was ok but fried down to almost 'air'...just not much there to taste unless I did something wrong.
I love to fish for Yellow Perch! The Chattahoochee is full of them. Troll 2" floating Rapalas or throw 1/16 or 1/8oz jigs with curly tails. Let sink to bottom and bring back slowly just over the bottom, or even jig them ON the bottom if you are in deep enough water [12-14'] in the river. If water is up and running when they generate, then look for eddies by the shore where creeks or other openings creat eddies. They can hole up there, too.
Ultra lite or lite action open face spinning rod, and 4 lb line. Great for yellow perch if you can keep the spots off it : )
2 lbs 1 oz! {the perch, not my toe : ) } on 4 lb line and my own graphite rod with Mitchell 408. Using flourocarbon now.
Great eating,maybe not as good as walleye,,,,but,,,,Yellow perch are great eating, I used to catch them as a kid in Michigan. Surprised to know they're in Georgia, I always thought it was too warm for them here.
Great eating,maybe not as good as walleye,,,,but,,,,
Yep,,,.Yeah well, you take what you can get. We have crappie and white bass/hybrids. If you clean the bloodline out they taste as good as anything IMO.