perch At Yuba.

[fuzzyfisher]

anyone rerember when the perch fishing was like this at Yuba????
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBlyUg1KMWg
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[DKStroutfitter]

I remember fishing at the BFT Perch Party and getting my limit of big Perch [10] in about an hour.
I never went back because the drive was too long for only 10 Perch.
The Party was a lot of fun though.
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[fuzzyfisher]

that video was made about 2 weeks before the new year you could not keep any perch but the rule of have to keep was not in play ether.. i think i caught about 100 perch that day.. as fast as i could drop it they were on it!!
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[RYsenTrout]

Yuba has been very exciting as of late as an up and coming Northern Pike fishery. However, count me as one who misses the "good old days" at Yuba.

We used to trolll for the walleye with bottom bouncers and man those were plentiful, big, and fun to catch. Then we would fish for perch and rainbow. The biggest perch I caught at Yuba and will probably catch ever again was a 14 inch hog. It was a beautiful fish and not sure you could find better eating fish in the state than a walleye/perch haul at Yuba back in the day.
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[fuzzyfisher]

when you say good old day's do you mean 70's, 80's, 90's, or 2000+?

in the late 70's and early 80's the perch were much better and no one fished there much i rerember days on the weekends out in my boat and not seeing anyone else on the lake all day.. we would fill a cooler full of walleye and take them home.. we never even worried about a limit what limit? no one was going to check us anyway, lol them were the days..

the pike have been there a long time too.. we would catch them every now and then trolling for walleye but not like we do now.. lol
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[RYsenTrout]

Well now... good ole days are relative, considering I wasn't born in the 70's. For me it was the late 80's and early 90's with my dad and yes I remember pulling up a big northern every once in awhile. Usually we would lose them at the boat as we weren't prepared for the teeth.

I grew up down near Yuba so we went there more than anywhere else due to proximity. The size of the perch was what I remember most.
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[bassrods]

Yes good old days??
I fished it in the 50's and started ice fishing it in the 70's (late 70's) and the perch fishing was great with 100 fish days and all Perch kept was over 12" and bigger..
Then the 80's and still great fishing and lots of big perch some to 18" but still not many fishing for perch..

And Gunnson res. had a few perch with most over 12" and on most days no one else on the lake..

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[TubeDude]

[#0000FF]I'll back you up on that. We both fished Yuba in the 70s and early 80s with a small group of hardcore perch jerkers. Caught lots of mega perch and more than a few walleyes through the ice too.

I'm sure you recognize the guy in the picture below. Wasn't he the guy who caught two 18 inchers in one day...and they both weighed in about 3 pounds?

For those who do not know Rick (picture) he is about 6'5"...and the fish was over 14 inches. We caught lots of those.

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[dubob]

[quote bassrods]Then the 80's and still great fishing and lots of big perch some to 18" but still not many fishing for perch..[/quote][font "Comic Sans MS"][#800000][size 3]Let's see - Ray Johnson holds the Utah State record at 15.13" and not a single other state shows ANY perch record of over 16" (except Michigan at 21" - not sure I'm buying that one either) and Cliffy wants us to believe he, and he alone, was catching more than one 18" yellow perch out of Yuba. Anybody else buying that one?[/size][/#800000][/font]
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[stan55]

I have caught 16" perch in MN and know some 18" were caught in MI by people I know. Most perch records are by pounds not length. I never weighed my big perch since I just release the big ones. It's possible to catch a 18" but it for sure is not frequent. My biggest UT perch was just under 15" at Starvy last winter.
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[Northman]

I have a friend that is older that showed me a picture of two perch that were laid up against a measuring tape that were just over 16". He said they were from Yuba back in the 80s. When I lived in Michigan there would be some 16'-18" perch that would be caught although it was very rare. I think it takes some extraordinary conditions to grow a perch over 14" but it can happen. Personally the biggest perch I have caught was 13".
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[PIKEMAN99]

i got couple 15.5 in. perch on the wall from 2000 out yuba []
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[dubob]

[quote PIKEMAN99]i got couple 15.5 in. perch on the wall from 2000 out yuba [][/quote][#800000][size 3][font "Comic Sans MS"]Would have been the new State Record had you registered either one. Same goes for Northman's friend. [#800000]The current record fish came out of Sevier Bridge Reservoir in 1984 and weighed 2 lb, 11 oz.[/#800000][/font][/size][/#800000]
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[TubeDude]

[#0000FF]There have definitely been bigger perch than that caught from Yuba...in the "good ol' days". But a lot of folks are more concerned about dining than winning.
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[Fowl-Hook]

The good old days indeed.
50 years ago I remember throwing 13 " perch one after the other back up the rocky shore of Deer Creek. Cussed every one of them, Had No Idea what a Treasure they really were, or how hard I would fish for them later in life!
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[Northman]

Well, personally I think that the state record fish are not the "real" state records. I believe that most of the documented state records are just that. What was documented by a fisherman that was willing to document it. There is another class of fisherman that looks at the sport of fishing as a religion/cult. Where secrets are not to be reviled. The fish that those people catch and the location are not going to be documented. But if you are going to go off the documented state record fish then no, no one has ever caught a 16" perch in the state of Utah.
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[dubob]

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[font "Comic Sans MS"][#800000][size 3]You appear to be taking offense when none was intended. I never said or implied that nobody in Utah has caught 16" yellow perch. What I did do was look up the Utah State record on yellow perch and then researched the records of ALL states and found that the longest length recorded for any state except Michigan is 16". Some states only record the weight of the recorded fish so there may be others that were 16" or longer. Michigan shows a yellow perch recoded at 21".[/size][/#800000][/font]
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[font "Comic Sans MS"][#800000][size 3]Bassrods made this claim "Then the 80's and still great fishing and lots of big perch some to 18" but still not many fishing for perch.." implying he had caught more than one yellow perch at 18" out of Yuba. I doubted his claim and wondered if anybody else did as well. You see, I have personal knowledge that Cliffy has been known to stretch the truth on occasion. Then Tube Dude (aka Pat) chimes in and backs Cliff up on the 18" perch. I’ll take Pat at his word any time.[/size][/#800000][/font]
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[font "Comic Sans MS"][#800000][size 3]I was living in King Salmon, AK for a year and caught some smallish King Salmon and saw some 50 pounders caught. The world record at that time was over 90 lbs on hook and line. The commercial salmon boats all boasted about catching kings in their nets well over 100 lbs every year with some approaching 120 lbs. So yea, there are larger fish swimming around than those paltry few documented as being caught by man.[/size][/#800000][/font]
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[font "Comic Sans MS"][#800000][size 3]And the only other thing I said was that your friend or Pikeman COULD have had the state record for yellow perch had either taken the time to get it documented. I didn’t condemn either of them for not doing so or belittle them in any way. No hard feelings either way. Life is good.[/size][/#800000][/font]
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[PIKEMAN99]

1 was 1 9 oz and other was 1 8 oz 1.9 had a 12 3/4 in girth go figure[]
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[PIKEMAN99]

now now kids let me tell you of another story that happened when i lived in redmond utah. there was 2 ol'boys one from redmond one from salina and they fished yuba faithfully 2 days a week. i would see them there when i fished my 3 days a week. that was when i worked 4-10s in the mine. i seen the one ol'boy at the gorcery store he told me you should have seen the perch dan caught today. he said it was the shape of a foot ball. i said what'd he do with it? you guys know i got scales it could have been the new state record. so i booked it over to dans house and knocked on the door. he said come in. he was sittin there with a big plate of perch fillets that hed just got done cooking. i said norm said youd caught a big perch today. he said like a redneck yah i did. i said whatd you do with it. i just got done eatin it he replied. so i said did you put a tape to it dan. he said yah i did it was 16.5 inches long. i said did you measure the gurth? he said whats that? i said around the widest part of the belly. yah i did he said it was 21 inches. i said holy shit!!! you might have ate the state record. after i put the lenght and the gurth together and multiplied it by the square root of 600. that bad boy would have been not only a state record but possibly a world record. caught on a red sider minow at the narrows. so put that in ur pipe and smoke it. and my perch that was a quarter inch longer and three inches larger gurth and was 2.oz under the state record ray jonshon must have done somethin fishy. my fish was lead free so was my 47.75inch northern pike. [cool]
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