This hook did have a perch on it right before this.

Aggieangler93 said:

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We always used worms with my kids when little. Not the huge catfish ones but the small ones you find in the edge of your flower bed. They loved how squirmy they were. We would catch perch for hours on end. So many smiles and fun times.

When I was young and we had a baitstand nearby in town we would use crickets. Or if in a pasture, grasshoppers. They will bite on gum, anything that looks shiny or odd. I bet I have held 1 million perch in my lifetime and let about 90 pct of em go. Just a ton of fun. Start em like this:





Then they get like this:

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That's a really nice flounder

Morrish hopper with a size 12 prince nymph 2 feet below

Pretty much anything you can put on a hook. I've had the most success with any type of worms or corn. Bacon works fine too.

We used to use meal worms.

If no easy access to worms, I second the idea of cheap biscuit dough from a can. Did this all of the time when i was young if I needed a quick option for a spur of the moment trip to the neighborhood pond. Perch were all over it and it stays on the hook easy if you're fishing with the little ones.

Here's to hoping they become addicted like I used to be.

My cousin used to take his vacation every summer to camp on the Brazos just north of Hearne for a week, maybe even two. We put out trot lines and checked them all the time. Anyway, we did not buy bait. We went out at night with flashlights and collected big grasshoppers off the local trees and shrubs. My fingers were rough after that first night. We caught catfish every day. We ate catfish every day but I don't remember getting tired of it. For a kid of 10-12 it was a blast. We all slept on cots under a big canopy.

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If no easy access to worms, I second the idea of cheap biscuit dough from a can. Did this all of the time when i was young if I needed a quick option for a spur of the moment trip to the neighborhood pond. Perch were all over it and it stays on the hook easy if you're fishing with the little ones.

Here's to hoping they become addicted like I used to be.

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This is even better if you wrap chewed gum around the dough to hold it on the hook. Otherwise the fish can take the dough easily without actually getting to the hook.

mandevilleag said:

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TH36 said:

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I've had a day where I wished for barbless hooks.



But on topic, I like the panther martins with skirts for Perch.

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Just push it the rest of the way through and snip the barbs off. It'll back right back out after that. Rub a little fish slime on it and continue your day. No need to ruin a fishing day for everyone else.


Edit to stay on topic. Earthworms from the garden. My kids and now grandkids had nearly as much fun digging worms as fishing. They'd fight over them like chickens as soon as I'd turn the dirt over.

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That's it after being pushed through and cut off with a pair of dykes by the doctor. This was a very big hook. Was on about a 12-14" trolling lure. I had a King fish on the other hook. Between the swell and him flopping till we got him off, that was real fun.

We use shrimp from the local gas station freezer.

"cut off with a pair of dykes by the doctor."

Now that takes scissoring to a whole new level!

Had a good day! 5 perch and daddy was able to get a little bass!

What bait did you use?

The perch were all caught on live worms he and I dug up in the yard last night.

I threw a plastic worm for the bass. It had been years since I went fresh water fishing. I was throwing that plastic worm when I saw 2 bass swimming by. It was really exciting to see the one break off and attack my worm. Can't wait to go back again

Plastic worms bumping the bottom works well in this heat. If you get out at sunset throw a top water. Kid will go crazy if it's hit

Great pic's. Well done dad.

Good dadding... Small flies work really really well for perch. You can rig a spinning reel with a split shot and the fly hanging underneath.

Thanks for comments on my kid's flounder. It was a really nice flattie. Glad you had some luck with your little fella OP. I look back on those times when my kids wanted to fish with me and they are very special times. They get older and get lives of their own with their own priorities and it seems like we get to be together less and less. Soak it in!

Some days we would take my Grampa and Grandma who were in their 90s and they loved sitting in a lawn chair and watching my kids catch perch after perch. We had some creeks and ponds that would be a bite every cast for hours. Kids loved it, and I did to.

That Chiclid came out of Brushy Creek near Round Rock. I was pumped up when I caught it!

Texas perch are known as bluegill in the rest of the country. Louisiana white perch are known as crappie in Texas

Yellow jacket larvae are deadly on perch, but can be a literal pain to get if you aren't careful.

Meh... a lot of the country calls them bream, many outside of Texas also call them perch, bluegill is popular and just as wrong a lot of the time because bluegill actually refers to a specific sunfish species. Most of what people call bluegill in Texas are really longear sunfish, but Texans will call any sunfish species a bluegill/perch.

I use canned corn

Also starting them young is key

Badace52 said:

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Good dadding... Small flies work really really well for perch. You can rig a spinning reel with a split shot and the fly hanging underneath.

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Or you could use the maggots you found in the other thread!

Still can't get that out of my mind. Insert Clint Eastwood shiver .gif

mandevilleag said:

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Badace52 said:

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Good dadding... Small flies work really really well for perch. You can rig a spinning reel with a split shot and the fly hanging underneath.

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Or you could use the maggots you found in the other thread!

Still can't get that out of my mind. Insert Clint Eastwood shiver .gif

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What's your favorite perch bait?

Vagina maggots…

I've heard bluegill and bream used interchangeably in se texas.

Freshwater perch are a different deal.

And saltwater perch were always called piggy perch for whatever reason. You never heard people say piggy perch in freshwater.