White perch

[JLH]

Any tips for someone new to targeting them? Hope to get out and give it a try in the next couple of weeks.
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[numbskull]

Originally Posted by JLH

Any tips for someone new to targeting them? Hope to get out and give it a try in the next couple of weeks.
Posted from my iPhone/Mobile device

They used to be everywhere but nowadays finding them is the real trick....at least around where I live. I've had the best success in mildly brackish ponds with a connection to saltwater (i.e., ponds that have an inflow only on the moon tides). They tend to school up and move around.

I use a large, gold, Thomas Colorado spoon and fish it slow and deep.

Back in the day the commercial guys would chum and fish for them with grass shrimp.

[Diggin Jiggin]

There used to be some real big ones in the salt ponds on nantucket. We dont have any LMB or SMB down there so less competition for them in the ponds.

[Guppy]

I tried netting for the shrimp like days of old..... Zilch

I think the lack of eel grass has contributed to the lack of the grass shrimp

[Clammer]

yeah Gup / that ain,t what it use to be either ..............&&&&&&&when we get them they are all small .....very few of hook size .

to get any go in the holes & get them out of the mud ><><

[Guppy]

Originally Posted by Clammer

yeah Gup / that ain,t what it use to be either ..............&&&&&&&when we get them they are all small .....very few of hook size .

to get any go in the holes & get them out of the mud ><><

Hmmmmmm, will do

[DZ]

Back in the day there were some good runs in the headwaters of the Coles and Palmer Rivers. Maybe still? I know I would occasionally catch them while fishing for winter flounder in March.