Big River Perch

[Andy Macfarlane]

On a mission tomorrow for some big river perch. I was going to collect lobs but I'm going out so I'm going to fish maggots and maybe fish spinners for a bit. I should bang a few trout in the process but hopefully the Sergeants will make an appearance.

 

I haven't really fished for river perch much as a target species. I tend to get the odd one here and there as a fluke add-on to whatever else I'm aiming for.

 

I wonder, apart from the spinning, which I'm fairly adept at, how do you think I should go for the perch? I'll probably fish maggots but I'm not ruling worms out.

 

Loosefeed, feeder, leger, float under obvious shades & bushes in the slower glides....what?

 

I'll be popping in tomorrow morning for a look before I head off to the tackle shoppe for provisions. I reckon I know stillwater perch pretty well but rivers? I'm a bit baffled. Any bright ideas would be useful.

[Tigger]

Is there no closed season up there ?

[davedave]

I like to float fish (trot) worms or fish a free running maggot feeder with worm on the hook.

[corydoras]

Is there no closed season up there ?

By law only for game fish. An individual fishery can of course make up it's own rules but if there is public access to fish for coarse fish then no there is no close season. At lest that's the way it was when I lived there.

 

 

On a mission tomorrow for some big river perch. I was going to collect lobs but I'm going out so I'm going to fish maggots and maybe fish spinners for a bit. I should bang a few trout in the process but hopefully the Sergeants will make an appearance.

 

I haven't really fished for river perch much as a target species. I tend to get the odd one here and there as a fluke add-on to whatever else I'm aiming for.

 

I wonder, apart from the spinning, which I'm fairly adept at, how do you think I should go for the perch? I'll probably fish maggots but I'm not ruling worms out.

 

Loosefeed, feeder, leger, float under obvious shades & bushes in the slower glides....what?

 

I'll be popping in tomorrow morning for a look before I head off to the tackle shoppe for provisions. I reckon I know stillwater perch pretty well but rivers? I'm a bit baffled. Any bright ideas would be useful.

May I ask which river we are talking of Andy?

[SpecimenSean]

I always fish for them very simply. Weight, hook length and a size 8 with a bit fat lob and feed chopped worm and MUD! Where the bushes touch the water have always produced well for me or in wier pools very close to the wier!

[lozza]

i would fish a maggot feeder to locate the prey fish and then a small live bait in the same area will target the larger perch. low light conditon are always favorable. what type of river are you fishing? fast, sallow, etc

[Anderoo]

This might seem a pedantic point, but do you mean big-river perch, or big perch from a river generally?

[Steve Burke]

Andy, this article of mine might help; http://www.anglersnet.co.uk/Coarse-Fishing...mmer_perch.html.

[JV44]

Andy livebaits work well

[corydoras]

This might seem a pedantic point, but do you mean big-river perch, or big perch from a river generally?

This thought occurred to me. I think he might be talking about the River Leven (the Loch Lomond one.) In that case it would be potentially big perch from a rather large river.

 

It's a funny old river. It's not very long, about 7 miles from source to sea, but it because it the overflow from the loch it starts off as a fairly large river, about 60 foot across and is fast, turbulent and deep. Ground baiting would be a waste of time. Your ground bait will be a hundred yards downstream before it gets anywhere near the bottom.

 

If you have Google Earth you can see it in this .kmz file.

Source_of_R._Leven.kmz

Edited May 19, 2011 by corydoras