Perch help?

[armriverkiller]

I'm having a problem when it comes to perch fishing lately. I can't find any! In all fairness, I usually don't fish for them, but I used to catch them everywhere when I was younger, now your lucky to find any decent sized perch and when you do, they aren't there in the big schools like they used to be. A friend has a camera, and at Mission and Echo this winter, we saw perch quite a bit, but in groups of 2-3, never schools. Cisco by the thousands! These fish aren't the brightest (we've got something in common) and they are supposedly the "easiest" fish to find and catch. If I find em', I can still catch em', but all the spots I used to catch them are dead. I want to take my little brother out fishing for perch one of these days, so if any of you can share a couple good spots to catch decent perch from shore, PM me if you don't mind. I'm usually don't keep my fish, even perch or walleye, so other than a few for him, we won't be fish-pigs. I hate cleaning fish and so does my girlfriend, that's why she's someone else's girlfriend now, so that's my excuse. Anyways, any help would be greatly appreciated, and kept confidential. Thanks you fin- heads!

[fishingguy42]

where do u live?

[armriverkiller]

The Regina area. A region devoid of any fish in any great numbers save for Carp and suckers. You gotta have a boat in the Fort to find fish, and to find a fish in Last Mountain, you need to have a $40,000 walleye trail set up with every electronic device money can buy, and even then, it's still luck on yourside to get one of the rotten mountain 'eyes to bite a hook. It hurts them to move in that water! When I was a kid, (about 3-12 years ago, depending on who you talk to) You could usually see the bottom at 6-8 feet in Last Mountain, sometimes more in some places. Now if you can see deeper than 3-4 feet, it's a good water year. We used to catch Perch till we we're bored of it on any dock on the lake from Pelican Point, up to Rowan's on either side of the lake. Now, I get excited if I see a few Perch minnows there. It's sad because it used to be a great lake but now there are too many people there and the lake can't handle it. The amount of land sold for recreational use around lakes should be limited more. I want a lake front retirement pad too, but that's part of the problem on the lakes around here. And most people are disgusting as far as not caring where they throw garbage or dump sh!t.

[sitdaddy]

this is actually right about the exact time you can nail perch off the point at rowan's, go there this weekend i'm sure there will be a bunch of boats sitting there and i'm pretty sure you can throw anything down there and they'll take it.

[mlpikeman]

try willows damn near assisniboia haven't been there in a few years but there are some nice eyes and perch there and it doesn't get fished to hard like a lot of southern lakes.

[jlh]

Try Lac Pelletier. I was there a few years ago and had good luck catching perch as well as a few walleye.

[scales]

I was just at Lac Pelletier last weekend. The first day I tried for some perch, I caught about 12 in about an hour and a half. I started out using a tear drop with a small leach, but one of the many small pike in the lake got that one. When the perch seemed to be really hammering, I was catching them on a larger jig with anything from leaches, large nightcrawlers and even large minnows. A few of us took a few of their kids off a buddies dock. No one got bored very quickly, we must have pulled 40 in off the dock, 20 of which were keepers, and about 5 were some of the larger perch I've caught (not jumbo perch like i"ve seen caught in other lakes however)