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Hey BFT,
So i primarily fish for trout and catfish. With the ice season started I've seen a lot of people catching pearch and other white fish. I also hear they are good eating. Now i know there is youtube for some info but if anyone has any pointers or can point me in the direction of any literature about lakes, bait, techniques, behavior, even cleaning and preping for cooking, even seasonings. Feel free to message me or post replys, i have the next 4 days off and would love to try my luck! Thanks you in advance.
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Ok Mantua for Perch, seems most are catching them a little deeper so 14' range. They are right on the bottom so fish within 1 foot of the bottom or closer if you like. You'll probably need the spring bobber to see their bites. Use small weighted ice fly or jig tipped with a wax worm. Once you catch them fillet the meat off the bones and skin. Wash and pat dry. Take some cheese it crackers and put in zip lock and crush then put meat in and shake place on cookie sheet and then bake in oven at 425 for about 7 minutes or until flaky and serve and eat. Good luck. J
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Perch are in a lot of lakes, and everywhere you can catch them you can use them for bait, check the rulebook to be sure of specific waters though. One of the best baits or sweeteners for perch is a perch eye but mealworms, waxworms or nightcrawler pieces will work. You need to use really small hooks or jigs as they have tiny mouths, anything much larger than a size 6 hook will be too big and they will just pick your bait off. Size 4 would work for bigger perch, but jumbos are a little sparse right now in Utah.
Personal experience fishing for a lot of perch by sight last year taught me something: using a swivel when jigging for perch is wasting a lot of time. People think they're getting bites when in reality the perch love the motion of the swivel and are attacking it repeatedly. Every time I fished for perch I ended up tying my leader to my line with a blood knot because I was literally watching about 50% of my action coming from perch trying to eat my swivel. You won't be able to see it on Mantua right now because of the cloudy water, but I've already read reports that sound just like perch attacking the swivel instead of the jig there.
Finding perch is usually a matter of a lot of searching. You find out where they should be hanging out for the part of the ice season that you're fishing in and drill holes in those areas until you find a school. Right now on Mantua people seem to be finding them mostly all around, my guess is it's because of the water conditions. Early ice logic says they should be hanging out in deep bowls or corners.
TD will probably chime in here, he's the master and anything I know is basically reconstituted from what he's seen fit to tell us.
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thank you guys for the awesome advice, especislly the cheese it recepie! And TD definetly seems to be the fish whisper in these parts thats for sure.
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[#0000FF]I have fished most of the perch waters in Utah, at least from the central to northern part. And I have cooked perch just about every way you can imagine.
I don't have extensive experience on Echo and never did like Rockport but I can hold my own on most perch ponds.
Here are some excerpts from larger writeups I have put together on Starvation and Deer Creek. Hopefully you can glean a bit from them.
And here is one recipe to get you started. More when you are ready for them.
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My arteries cry out in terror every time I catch a load of perch because they know that chowder is a comin'.
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Fish oils are very healthy for you and most people don't get enough. Butter is good for you and the information contrary to that is old and flawed and based on corruption with bought results to sell you hydrogenated vegetable oils which are very bad for health.
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[#0000FF]Most fresh water white-fleshed fish are very low in Omega 3 oils.
While butter has been awarded a healthier rating, the bacon fat in the chowder recipe...not so much.
If I have choices like that to make, I choose to die happy. There will be a grin on my face...not the grimace of pain from a major heart attack.
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Good news: All of the fats you've mentioned are not the major factors contributing to heart disease. Other factors have much more influence. That's contrary to what's been taught decades ago. Doctors are generally so busy that they aren't up on the latest corrections of flawed or currupt studies, so there is a momentum of continuation of erroneous information and since the majority still believes that, it fits the new dynamic of "consensus science," an oxymoron.
The exercise we get ice fishing for those perch greatly contribute to health much more than the fats considered EXCEPT do avoid vegetable oil (with some healthy exceptions) and particularly hydrogenated oils.
I didn't know about the low Omega 3 content in perch and other white meat fish. Thanks. I largely supplement my Omega 3 oils.
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