John, I read in your post to g/s the words[white perch]
thats my first love, tell me how many can be caught in a tide? when? and how long are they around ?
I fish dead serious for them babies, nothing like those blackish,yellowish,silver jumbos!!!!!!!!!!!!!! thanks Mike/////:p

i don't know which thread that was i was rambling about white perch, then again i don't know what i had for breakfast yesterday :rolleyes:

i almost stopped on my way home from norwich yesterday but it would have been a pain in the 8ss to launch this boat @ that spot.

Far as i know the white perch school up big time in certain places in the CT river coves. Went out thanksgiving weekend twice for them, but they were spotty and not to many big ones. They bit so soft i thought i was fishing for crappies. Even with killies on the back of the jig they were just s#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&g it in. i did however catch a 28" carp on a small pan fish tube last week ;) took me 15 minutes on 4lb. test. caught 4 stripers mixed in as well for the 2 days fished
To answer your questions;
you can catch a bucketful in a tide, even a cooler full sometimes.
this time of year is as good as any.
i think they hang all winter in certain coves i have seen huge schools sitting in a ball in late feb/early march. But size is down, must be the commercial nets in the river taking the bigger humpbacks.
oh yeah there not to bad on the table if ya don' mind cleaning em,
i am lazy, i just go catch em for there pulling capablities!
JohnS

I meant to take a picture of the white perch I caught yesterday, what a slob, maybe 1-1/4 lbs. I had it in the live well in case I got on more, because they are good eating. You need to go to Maine because there sweet and yummie up there and in numbers you'd die for.

Caught a mutant American Shad yesterday, which was even too large for bait. The warm weather actually had the bass too spread out, but I managed around 40, with a 20 lber at the end of the day that was the icing on the cake. It was donated to the cause by a couple that fishes there from the Orange mass area and they weren't set up to live line, but I was :). Good battle, but no pic :(, because apparently my partner didn't push the right button. Oh well, great weather and good fishing for Dec. 1 st, too good to be true. I hope it doesn't mean we are going to be dumped on, because I hate having to shovel out both cars and to my boat.

Good for you Bob, enjoy
My kid has been kind of messing me up a little the last three weeks,his truck died in my driveway and have my tin boat blocked in. On the new moon I couldn;t go where I wanted and today I wanted to go up river, the day he gets it moved the weather will have changed !! later////

Bob, I would have taken a school of white perch in between.

Did you get the perch and the shad on your hand poured creation? How deep was the perch?

JohnS

Everything came on either my 2 or 4 inch plastics, but I think the crappie hit the smaller offering. I was vertically fishing in 14 foot of water at the time, up under the 2nd bridge. The American shad came up in there too.

Right now I have a seroius amout of large/xl mummies, you should see what the perch will do to these //////////////;)