Posts tagged 'Perch'

Ice fishing can be as rudimentary or state-of-the-art as you make it. 

I never knew the ice fishing season would turn out this way, but as of yesterday, my tally is 3 monster adventure trips on ice in the past 2 months. I do a lot more ice fishing than that, as I have done numerous day trips to familiar places, but these trips ...

If there is a thing that can be more gear intensive than you think, it would be perch fishing. With all the small spoons, tiny jigs, the crazy assortment of baits, I find myself

The Winnipeg River winds its way from Lake of the Woods in southwestern Ontario to Lake Winnipeg in central Manitoba, passing through some of the most beautiful Canadian Shield landscape along the way. Historically speaking, the river has made a meaningful mark.

Straddling the Saskatchewan - Manitoba border, Reindeer Lake is the 9th largest lake in all of Canada, so it’s no surprise that it hosts a broad diversity of fish.

If there is one spot worth chasing fish on a lake, it is a steep drop off.  The bigger, the more pronounced it is the better.  And if this drop off has some wrinkles and twists and curves, it gets real interesting really quick. 

It’s human nature, I guess, to pursue goals that are indicators of success or proficiency in whatever our chosen field of interest happens to be. For the golfer it may be a hole in one, or shooting a sub par round. For a gardening enthusiast it might be the perfect rose or the pumpkin that tops three hundred pounds. As anglers, we all dream of landing the big one, the 20” or better brown trout, 10-pound walleye or 20-pound pike.

Last month, in our tips column, I talked about the virtues of catching big perch up shallow which definitely happens on occasion but is most certainly not always the case. Generally most perch like to hang out deeper and catching them requires a different approach. Deep water perch are a schooling fish so, where I find one, I typically find a bunch and it then becomes a matter of getting the critters to bite.

It’s ice fishing season which brings all kinds of opportunities to catch many species of gamefish. One year I even caught an arctic grayling through the ice while fishing Edith Lake for brookies. One of my favourite fish species during the winter months is the yellow perch and, over the years I have caught a pile of them. Sometimes I catch them deliberately, like when I fish Calling Lake out deep, but other times I catch them incidentally.