Nene Perch

[Paul33]

Figured a three hour morning session on the Peterborough Nene wouldn't produce a whole lot but I was wrong. Three perch, biggest weighing in at 3lb 3oz which, incredibly, was chased home by a fish at least as big !!!

 

[Guest Ferret1959]

Nice fish Paul and nice to hear the Nene is fishing well.

 

Just a bit of advice, when taking photos or handling fish try and use a wet cloth.

Or better still get yourself a unhooking mat.

 

 

Oh and anytime you want to show me where you fished I'd love to have a gander.

[Elton]

Ditto what Ferret said about wetting the towel/unhooking mat, but cracking fish all the same!!

 

Must have been quite a shoal. The one 'chasing' isn't that odd, as perch tend to shoal in year class and have a habit of following each other right up to the net. It's not unknown to net more than one, so fixated are they with their mate! LOL

 

Were you bait fishing, or lure fishing?

[Steve Burke]

Congratulations, especially on catching 3 such specimens!!

 

There's long been discussions about why perch chase each other in this way. My own idea is that they're trying to pinch the food from the fish that's got it, or at least worry the fish so it drops the food. This happens with a lot of animals, and I suspect perch are the same.

[Paul33]

Agree with the landing mat advice, I was caught unequipped for this one ....... lesson learnt !!!

 

The fish were caught in the Alwalton Lock area which I've been having fun at for a few weeks. There are some seriously big perch in the vicinity and I've lost some real monsters including one I would estimate at 4lb plus which, believe it or not, snapped my landing net handle and then the line as it plummeted back into the depths ....... gutted was not the word !!!

[Anderoo]

What a great session! Congratulations, there's nothing better than a big perch - except three big perch

[bingo]

Tremendous! Nice photo. What sort of camera did you use?

[Paul33]

Tremendous! Nice photo. What sort of camera did you use?

 

It was my wife's nikon digital "point and shoot" camera ....... I'll pass on your compliments !!!

[bingo]

It was my wife's nikon digital "point and shoot" camera ....... I'll pass on your compliments !!!

 

Ha!

 

I just asked because I'm fed up of getting my prints back from the developers to find that half of my photos are blurry, cloudy, misty, wobbly and just plain rubbish!