Now that's a perch

[292]

Caught it on Saturday fishing with my son. Over 11 inches long.

[jlm223]

That's a good one, did you eat him?

[One Gun Andy]

Maybe with help from a couple friends... : )

[Jim Flinchbaugh]

Dont look like Montana perch

[skeeter2]

Doesn't look like a Minnesota, Wisconsin, or ND perch either. We have yellow perch. What is that thing?

[bruce drake]

It's a White Perch and they taste GOOD!!!!!

[DHurtig]

Looks a lot like a crappie. Dale

[bruce drake]

From an online fish encyclopedia so you can compare yourself with the original picture.

[Plate plinker]

Nevere seen a perch like that in Michigan. Must be a warm water variety. Do they eat well?

[smoked turkey]

Nice perch. What ya catch it on? Looks like you and your son had a great time.

[tomme boy]

Looks more like the Striped or yellow bass we have here on the Mississippi River

[TCLouis]

I have never seen a perch like that.

KEWL!

[swheeler]

Caught it on Saturday fishing with my son. Over 11 inches long.Nice! We get some decent sized ones up here too.

[MT Gianni]

When you get into pound perch you are going to have some great eating.

[swheeler]

When you get into pound perch you are going to have some great eating. Yep, tastes just like chicken, errrr walleye.:bigsmyl2:

[danski26]

We have White Perch here in Wisconsin on the waters of Green Bay. They are useful for......fertilizer, turtle food, Comorant bait or eating all your walleye crawlers. No disrespect meant 292 but you can catch as many as you want in Green Bay!!! I bet if you kept them, on a good day, you could have 100 eleven inch white perch in an hour up here! No kidding.

[WILCO]

Looks a lot like a crappie. Dale

Yeah, sorry Bruce. I agree with Dale. Looks like a crappie.

[starmac]

When I was growing up in east texas crappie and white perch were one and the same. It just depended on who was doing the talking.

They are also still my favorite fish for the dinner table after trying just about all fish caught in North America.

[missionary5155]

Good morning
Congradulations. Any day out with the family is a great success !
Growing up along Lake Michigan in the Benton Harbor area I did not know for years there was another type of perch beyond Yellow Perch. Then when we moved to Chattanooga after my Pickle Suit years I discovered a fish could have a different name but still a whole lot of fun to wrassle up .
Mike now in ILL.

[292]

All of the local names for fish are interesting. Here we have black crappy and call them speckled perch. Old folks around here used to call a largemouth bass a "chub." Check out this white perch profile.

http://www.ncwildlife.org/Portals/0/Fishing/documents/White_perch_profile.pdf

[bruce drake]

292,

Thanks for the backup data. White Perch it is.

[onesonek]

I went fishin in Kansas with friend,,,,first one of those I caught, Jim said, "nice perch",,I go huh what! He explained, yeah those do look like a crappie here in the north. I could see the difference, but it's little at that. We having Yellow Perch, are not use to seeing White Perch.
Here's some nice Yan,,,err Yellow Perch my son caught on a spring fed slough through the ice.
(iirc, those are in the 15" range)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v629/onesonek/100_3734.jpg