I guess this is as good a place to put this as any. We have white perch as an invasive species here. Do any of you East coast guys have flies for them? They are easy to catch on worms, especially red wigglers, but I would like to try it on a fly. Maybe a San Juan sort of thing? Thank you for your help.
I catch them on a small silver streamer, it has white marabou tail with a couple strands silver flash, silver metalic estaz body, tied on a small jig hook. If I can I will post a pic
I caught one a few days ago hardware fishing a topwater lure. The target fish (White Bass, Hybrids, Stripers, and Spotted Bass) were slamming anything that looked like a minnow.
Can someone post a picture … I don’t even know what a white perch is.
That’s one of the name some folks use for white crappie. But I don’t think that is what he is asking about.
Here is a pic of white perch that are typical of Maryland.
Bobber hook and a worm will nail them over and over.
Cheap white spinners, beetle spins…lotsa stuff will catch them and they are
very good eating…
Joe
Small Clousers, Crazy Charlies, work for me; catch them a lot when fishing for shad in the spring.
Regards,
Scott
Whoa! So made me think of JC on this header. He so loved his fried perch! Even after all these years, that still pulled at the heart strings.
As shown in the picture, White Perch are actually members of the same family as Stripers, White Bass, and Yellow Bass. White Perch look like a White Bass…without the stripes.
Very similar to stripers, so much so that we have Wipers around where I grew up…white bass/srtiped bass hybrid. We used minnow imitation or a white marabou crappie jig
Yeah, fried yellow perch = Castwell’s Dinner in my mind, too.
Ed
Yeah, I knew white perch aren’t perch. They are related to the true bass as posted earlier. That’s how we got them, they were accidently stocked with White bass and Hybrid fingerlings. They are anadromous on the east coast, that’s why I worded my query the way I did, and thank you for the answers. I used to catch yellow perch as a kid in Ohio, and they are yummy.
Hickory Shad, Yup, that’s a white perch alright. They breed like minks and eat every thing in sight. KDWP has raised the length limit on large predetors like walleye and striper/wipers and reduced the bag. It seems to be working, there aren’t as many as before, but they still manage to spawn. Maybe that will give the big boys something to eat.
greenlantern,
They seem to like pretty much the same things that bluegill, green sunfish, and red ears like to eat. Good luck catching as many as you can, just don’t C&R them, unless it is onto a big circle hook under a bobber for a cat to eat. 
(Can I say that here?)
Thank you for the picture. I recognize them now, from Indiana. We don’t have those in Florida, as far as I know. I remember catching those with my Dad in Monticello below the Lake Shafer dam in the Tippecanoe River.
They just gave up at Kingman to them. KDWP announced that they are going to drain and poison the entire lake to get rid of them. I was out there earlier in the year, and it was absolutely full of carp and white perch.
Small Kastmaster loaded with waxies…
Yep! And the same fly patterns that work on White (Sand) and Yellow Bass will work on these critters.