Great video! I live along Kinderhook Creek, south of you, but in summer, I go up to LG, Bolton Landing and fish and was tickled pink to hear you mention the Adirondack area as a fishery.
I really love the things I learn on your channel. This really confirms my belief of releasing larger fish, I thinking of Bass in particular. It is amazing how long a fish can live, my family had a common Goldfish that lived to be 15 years old, and he would actually let me pet him!
wow I am going to try aging a bunch of fish this year. Super interesting. If you want great perch fishing, you should try the connecticut river in VT/NH through the ice. Craziest school of giants I've ever seen
I appreciate that Brandon! there is a ZILLION 3 year old perch off your point this year. we can only hope that year class grows to maturity. thanks for watching!
that is all i gotta hear!!!!!!!!!! I'd love to take a road trip up there. let me know a good time. the next 3 weeks are crazy but after that i think i open up a bit and i have some availability during the week as well. its been a while since we have seen consistent big perch down here. i lived in LP for 2 years. but i never fished Colby.
Joey, Where on Colby are you catching such great perch? I have fished there a couple times and got skunked. You using minnows and tip-ups? Jigs and waxies, perch eyes, etc.? At the recent derby, the winning perch was 11 3/4 inches.
Wow! that is interesting. In Erie the perch eat a lot of minnows right? I wonder if the walleye predation thins out the dinks a little and lets the population grow faster? there are so many factors. what is the average size perch in Erie right now?
Could have used this video earlier this week. Buddy and I both caught a 13" perch and I wasn't sure if I should put it back or not. Bite wasn't great so he went in the bucket. Lol Between the two of us we might have limited out.. and that was 9 hours on the ice. 😩 Good news he gave me his fish so I now have 3 bags of frwsh perch in the freezer. 😀 Love all the videos lately. 👍
its ok to keep a few big ones. i think its just not great to target them and try to cull through everything else and keep numbers of them. I want to get you over to my bay, but the bite has been lame. ZILLIONS of 5" perch and hardly anything over 7" i'm hoping the big ones will come in soon
@@RogersRigs Let me know if you wanna try sometime this week. Preferably not Monday or Tue... Need to get some work done. Guess I could have emailed you instead of using RUclips. Lol
I'll let you know if i get an opening. its just a little sad when we cant find enough perch big enough to fillet. i took a few days off from fishing. trying to come up with a new place maybe. what percentage of keepers were you finding when you went out?
Thanks for watching Mike. i do have some Champlain perch heads in my freezer to age. The 5-7" schoolies were the same growth rate in Lake george. 5-7 years!!!!!!!!! But the heads in my freezer are from Westport and were feeding on alewives so I expect that they were growing faster
The larger & older fish have more eggs. Say a teenager lays 500 eggs a mature one will produce 5000 & and more viable(#'s are made up). As for growth rate you get a faster growth rate at beginning and it kind of tapers off. High protein and abundance of nutrients with fry & fingerlings makes a world of a difference. (I've bred fish for 40 years). As for eating minnows etc, they would eat small fry and or suitable size, that is why it is important you don't overfish. The fry from the perch and other fish support the food chain. They should limit all catches.
THANKS FOR THE INFO!!! Did you ever raise perch???? What was the best high protein feed? i made a vid with similar conservation teachings a year ago. hoping to get people to keep the neenagers and not target the mature ones. ruclips.net/video/5XUqCvqOR2s/видео.html
WOW!!!! how big is the average perch!????? this one was 13.5 and the next day my buddy got a 14.5 in the same hole. but hundreds of perch came from that spot in the 6 to 8" range.
@@RogersRigs I got into a honey hole last week and the average size was probly over 10"...fishing in 21ft of water off a point near a shallow spawn bay...been back to that hole twice and struggled to get a bite...running an aqua view camera plus a Garmin 5 ECHO... Probably try some darker colored tungsten jigs was catching them on chartreuse spoons with dropper chains but their bellies are full of little dark bugs.. may fly nymphs
@@troysnyder6273 that sound like quality fish! have you tried the new microplastics? some of those look JUST like a nymph . somtimes they will bite those when they will not take anything else
I checked out that Lake that you're fishing over there looks like a nice mountain range around it.. bet you get a lot of snow off the coast..I live right on Flathead Lake in Northwest Montana...its the largest freshwater lake this side of the Mississippi..when the water temp gets up around 42⁰-48⁰ usually in April the spawn starts and the average size perch 12.5"... It's on an Indian reservation and the tribe has a slot of 10 fish over 10" which is a great program to help protect the population of the healthy breed stock
@@RogersRigsI do have a bunch of mud scud alien like microplastics that I will be trying tomaro if there tight lipped again...there's a family perch derby on the lake I've been fishing so hoping to get my girls on sum fish..we are allowed 2 poles in Western Montana so each girl will get a bonus jaw jacker... interesting about the jaw bone never knew that
Great video! I live along Kinderhook Creek, south of you, but in summer, I go up to LG, Bolton Landing and fish and was tickled pink to hear you mention the Adirondack area as a fishery.
Thanks for watching ! yes I'm trying to build up the lake George fishery it is great for Lakers and can be a good perch fishery.
I never would have guessed they were that old. Great stuff and that is one massive perch. Blessings to you and your family.
Thanks 👍 I was surprised too. big bucks are babies compared to a perch!!
I really love the things I learn on your channel. This really confirms my belief of releasing larger fish, I thinking of Bass in particular. It is amazing how long a fish can live, my family had a common Goldfish that lived to be 15 years old, and he would actually let me pet him!
Great to hear! yes they really do live a long time. i am learning about bass in the past year. maybe ill do a vid on that soon.
Very informative, thanks
iow i just gotta figure out how to get them to grow as fast as ERIE perch
Very informative. Well said. Thanks
Glad it was helpful!
Good information, Roger. Blessings going out to you and your wonderful family.
Same to you!
Awesome! Great idea and really neat to find that stuff out.
Glad you liked it! im taking more samples from more places to get a better understanding of the growth factors. that will be in a video in the future
New to your channel and watched 2 videos and learned 2 things. Cool 😎 fish on 🎣
@Don R. Navarre thanks for watching!
wow I am going to try aging a bunch of fish this year. Super interesting. If you want great perch fishing, you should try the connecticut river in VT/NH through the ice. Craziest school of giants I've ever seen
Sounds great! I'd love to know the age of the river perch. i'll be making a how to age a perch vid soon
Thanks, I learned a lot from a great video! Also, the beard is looking good!
I appreciate that Brandon! there is a ZILLION 3 year old perch off your point this year. we can only hope that year class grows to maturity. thanks for watching!
Good info. 👍
Thanks Clayton, i never guessed they would take that long to grow
Not sure if you’d ever come up to SL… average size on Lake Colby is around 12-13 inches, and you can catch 50+ in a few hours!
that is all i gotta hear!!!!!!!!!! I'd love to take a road trip up there. let me know a good time. the next 3 weeks are crazy but after that i think i open up a bit and i have some availability during the week as well. its been a while since we have seen consistent big perch down here. i lived in LP for 2 years. but i never fished Colby.
Joey,
Where on Colby are you catching such great perch? I have fished there a couple times and got skunked. You using minnows and tip-ups? Jigs and waxies, perch eyes, etc.? At the recent derby, the winning perch was 11 3/4 inches.
Crazy the difference in lakes. In Lake Erie the dec says that the one year old perch average 6-7 inches.
Wow! that is interesting. In Erie the perch eat a lot of minnows right? I wonder if the walleye predation thins out the dinks a little and lets the population grow faster? there are so many factors. what is the average size perch in Erie right now?
Could have used this video earlier this week. Buddy and I both caught a 13" perch and I wasn't sure if I should put it back or not. Bite wasn't great so he went in the bucket. Lol Between the two of us we might have limited out.. and that was 9 hours on the ice. 😩 Good news he gave me his fish so I now have 3 bags of frwsh perch in the freezer. 😀 Love all the videos lately. 👍
its ok to keep a few big ones. i think its just not great to target them and try to cull through everything else and keep numbers of them. I want to get you over to my bay, but the bite has been lame. ZILLIONS of 5" perch and hardly anything over 7" i'm hoping the big ones will come in soon
@@RogersRigs Let me know if you wanna try sometime this week. Preferably not Monday or Tue... Need to get some work done. Guess I could have emailed you instead of using RUclips. Lol
I'll let you know if i get an opening. its just a little sad when we cant find enough perch big enough to fillet. i took a few days off from fishing. trying to come up with a new place maybe. what percentage of keepers were you finding when you went out?
@@RogersRigs I'd say out of the 30 or so I kept I probably threw back 15. Give or take.
Nice Expression! 😆
Thanks 😅
Cool Info...
Thanks for watching Jim! I wonder how the perch got so big in Long island. I caught a few at Artest lake 30 years ago.
Can't wait to get out on the ice!
oh yeah! the shantoon is in position!
Any thoughts on how the growth rate for Champlain is compared to George?
Thanks for watching Mike. i do have some Champlain perch heads in my freezer to age. The 5-7" schoolies were the same growth rate in Lake george. 5-7 years!!!!!!!!! But the heads in my freezer are from Westport and were feeding on alewives so I expect that they were growing faster
have you seen any schools of big perch in Champlain lately?
The larger & older fish have more eggs. Say a teenager lays 500 eggs a mature one will produce 5000 & and more viable(#'s are made up). As for growth rate you get a faster growth rate at beginning and it kind of tapers off. High protein and abundance of nutrients with fry & fingerlings makes a world of a difference. (I've bred fish for 40 years). As for eating minnows etc, they would eat small fry and or suitable size, that is why it is important you don't overfish. The fry from the perch and other fish support the food chain. They should limit all catches.
THANKS FOR THE INFO!!! Did you ever raise perch???? What was the best high protein feed? i made a vid with similar conservation teachings a year ago. hoping to get people to keep the neenagers and not target the mature ones. ruclips.net/video/5XUqCvqOR2s/видео.html
13.75" is my season best thus far...got my sights set on a 14..lots of perch meat in the freezer at the moment.
WOW!!!! how big is the average perch!????? this one was 13.5 and the next day my buddy got a 14.5 in the same hole. but hundreds of perch came from that spot in the 6 to 8" range.
@@RogersRigs I got into a honey hole last week and the average size was probly over 10"...fishing in 21ft of water off a point near a shallow spawn bay...been back to that hole twice and struggled to get a bite...running an aqua view camera plus a Garmin 5 ECHO... Probably try some darker colored tungsten jigs was catching them on chartreuse spoons with dropper chains but their bellies are full of little dark bugs.. may fly nymphs
@@troysnyder6273 that sound like quality fish! have you tried the new microplastics? some of those look JUST like a nymph . somtimes they will bite those when they will not take anything else
I checked out that Lake that you're fishing over there looks like a nice mountain range around it.. bet you get a lot of snow off the coast..I live right on Flathead Lake in Northwest Montana...its the largest freshwater lake this side of the Mississippi..when the water temp gets up around 42⁰-48⁰ usually in April the spawn starts and the average size perch 12.5"... It's on an Indian reservation and the tribe has a slot of 10 fish over 10" which is a great program to help protect the population of the healthy breed stock
@@RogersRigsI do have a bunch of mud scud alien like microplastics that I will be trying tomaro if there tight lipped again...there's a family perch derby on the lake I've been fishing so hoping to get my girls on sum fish..we are allowed 2 poles in Western Montana so each girl will get a bonus jaw jacker... interesting about the jaw bone never knew that
The jaws perch lol
ha ha ha. words are hard :-) thanks for watching!
My best was 15 3/4 ......
WOW! that is a beast. i have not seen over 14" in 20 years!
@@RogersRigs I've heard a couple people getting one or 2 just over 16....I'm just excited to get the one I got.....
yeah those are rare in most lakes!
Too early to say depends on the lake and average temps?
yeah, and the good sources. but they really don't grow fast!