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Crappie major with a perch minor - davetclown - 01-06-2003
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[font "Verdana Ref"][size 3]So you are looking for jumbo perch,[/size][/font]
[font "Verdana Ref"][size 3]Well guess what, they aint going to sit there and wait for you to find them. [/size][/font]
[font "Verdana Ref"][size 3]They are constantly on the move. Their agenda for every minute of their existence is eat and don’t get eaten in the process. [/size][/font]
[font "Verdana Ref"][size 3]So hungry perch in a school will make for some vary fast but short action once located. They hit fast they hit hard, and move out of the way fast. Taking no prisoners they dance like a butterfly sting like a bee but once located by a pike they make like a humming bird and that all you herd.[/size][/font]
[font "Verdana Ref"][size 3]Pike and walleye-(some times called pickerel in the golden age or our gramps) are closely related in the gene pool not to mention the swimming pool. They coexist in the same hunting grounds like the same food and even bed in the same type of bedding.[/size][/font]
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vantage for the perch is that they have a smaller mouth but no means a smaller appetite, which explains why when most unskilled anglers when landing them, had found that the perch has swallowed the hook. [/size][/font][font "Verdana Ref"][size 3]So what do crappies have to do with this tip, well here it is. Once you have located feeding crappie you have found the high grounds of the feeding perch. So if it is perch it is you are looking for move deeper 5-15 feet to find them feeding. In the process you may locate a walleye or two.[/size][/font][signature]