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Kawishiwashy

12/16/2011 12:09PM

While pan fishing in our Northern WI lake, we catch a few of these. Someone, please convince me that you know what kind of fish this is.

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mr.barley

12/16/2011 12:25PM

perch

Because I'm wearing one and I just did....

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Kawishiwashy

12/16/2011 12:27PM

I think you're right, but the crazy thing is that we've never caught a perch bigger than this on our lake...ever.

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gsfisher13

12/16/2011 12:59PM

Looks like a perch to me too. Maybe you need to catch and eat more of these little ones to make room for them to grow. If there are too many in the lake and not enough predators they will be stunted and not grow bigger than a certain size.

Not all those who wander are lost - J.R.R.Tolkien

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Kawishiwashy

12/16/2011 03:37PM

Good point, but those would be some pretty small fillets. That's my 8 year old's hand in the picture. Fish fingers it is then for breakfast, lunch, and dinner if it's gonna get 'em to grow.

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mooseplums

12/16/2011 04:35PM

I'd say perch.

"I am haunted by waters"~Norman Maclean "A River Runs Through It"

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gsfisher13

12/16/2011 04:59PM

quote Kawishiwashy: "Good point, but those would be some pretty small fillets. That's my 8 year old's hand in the picture. Fish fingers it is then for breakfast, lunch, and dinner if it's gonna get 'em to grow."

I have one of those subdivision water retention ponds behind my house and we have bluegills that size, never any bigger. The kids love it they can catch a 3-6 inch bluegill almost every cast. I wouldn't want to fillet those either :)

Not all those who wander are lost - J.R.R.Tolkien

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fitgers1

12/16/2011 05:13PM

Stunted growth Perch.
A very rare find.

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” Ralph Waldo Emerson...and...“Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading".

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Woodtick

12/16/2011 05:29PM

Makes me hunger. Now I want to eat some perch...

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mpeebles

12/16/2011 05:56PM

Definitely a perch. It could just be part of a certain "year class" of fish. We have a lot of perch in Lake Winnebago and their size usually depends on how old they are assuming the food base is adequate.

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Savage Voyageur

12/16/2011 07:21PM

That is a very small perch. If it were a jumbo perch now you could eat them, We used to catch Jumbo's in the reservoirs in North Dakota. They are closely related to the Walleye.

"So many lakes, so little time."

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saacman5033

12/16/2011 07:23PM

That's what we grew up simply calling a "Whee". On my home lake growing up, there were a ton of stunted perch. If trolling, we'd hook one without even knowing it and the fish would simply be hooked until we happened to check our line. Ice fishing, us kids would simply take off running along the ice when we got a bite, 3 seconds later... Whee!

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gutmon

12/16/2011 08:17PM

"The trouble with the world isn't that people know too little, but that they know so much that just ain't so." Mark Twain

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kanoes

12/16/2011 08:23PM

quote Savage Voyageur: "That is a very small perch. If it were a jumbo perch now you could eat them, We used to catch Jumbo's in the reservoirs in North Dakota. They are closely related to the Walleye. "
the walleye is in the perch family.

perch

i think bigfoot is blurry. (mitch hedberg)

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mc2mens

12/16/2011 09:03PM

Perch. I catch about 30 that size in Gull Lake each summer off the dock.

"Big fish eat little fish."

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snakecharmer

12/16/2011 10:07PM

A mess of jumbos is excellent eating. I prefer them over walleye, pike or other panfish.

"Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing it is not fish they are after"
~ Henry David Thoreau

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Wallidave

12/17/2011 06:45AM

It's definitely a perch. We might catch a few that size on our Quetico trips to Saganagons every year but haven't caught one bigger then 3 inches. We also see them in the shallows and occasionally a smallmouth spits one up. On other lakes in Illinois I've seen small perch populations so high that it's almost impossible to catch a decent size one until that year class has had a chance to grow.

Might not be stunted but perhaps just an ideal spawning year or two.

Jumbos are fun to catch but I prefer the 8-11" size for better eating.

How long have you been fishing this lake?

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fitgers1

12/17/2011 10:03AM

quote gutmon: " "

Please tell us that thing is on the wall somewhere.

Agree with wallidave. 8 - 11 inchers are good eating.
can't agree with snakecharmer. Jumbos are good BUT NOT BETTER than walleye. I know you didn't say they were better, just that you preferred them. Of course, that is just imhdao.

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Sierra1

12/17/2011 10:26AM

quote gutmon: " "

That looks like it has about 10 lbs of #8 shot in it.... :-)

Watch out for that rock!!!........ Oooo.... That's going to leave a mark...

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Jeriatric

12/17/2011 04:57PM

You needed only to compare the fish to a perch-pattern Rapala.

I dissected yellow perch in both high school and college labs. Now, because of this thread, I have learned that we have them here, in three lakes, in California. They were introduced in 1891.

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maxxbhp

12/17/2011 07:34PM

Before my house in Alabama burned down in 97, I had a small lake. There wasn't a bass in there bigger than 2 pounds, but in the spring you could catch 100 bluegills over 1 pound each. I don't claim to understand lake biology, I just know it's weird sometimes.

"Old Nashville still has a song and dance, and the Florida girls still wear no underpants. And we all get drunk at the football game, yeh the new south, thank God is still the same" Hank Williams, jr

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PINETREE

12/19/2011 06:02PM

Its a Yellow perch and in many lakes they do not get over 9 inches because of limited food supply for them in or many lakes the perch are ate up by fish like northern pike. When lakes get a very high northern population,yellow perch abundance drops. Many lakes in central Minnesota a 6 inch perch is about 3 years old. I have seen them close to 14 inches and when eaten they taste sweeter than walleye. The yellow perch is a preferred food by many fish from when they just hatch and for the rest of their life.

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Jeriatric

12/20/2011 02:17PM

" The yellow perch is a preferred food by many fish from when they just hatch and for the rest of their life. "
.....because they taste sweeter than walleye.
:-)

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