Iowa Perch 1/29-1/31

  • nick858
    Eldora, Iowa
    Posts: 367
    February 2, 2009 at 12:35 am #1284629

    I spent half of Thurs, Fri, and Sat. chasing some farm pond perch in Central Iowa. We didnt catch a ton of fish, but for this area, the quality was awesome!
    Thursday, my buddy ended up with a sumo right at 13.25″
    Friday I got the same treat, an identical fish.
    And Saturday, we ended up getting 5 perch over 12″.
    Totals were 8 Thursday, 9 Friday, and a dozen Saturday.
    The presentation was pretty typical of perch, drill a ton of holes, jump around, and catch the few active fish. We were using Swedish Pimples and Lindy Frostees, tipped with spikes. Here are some pics from the last 3 days.

    At the owners request, we kept all the perch. The perch were someones “midnight stocking” into his pond, and he would rather they not be there. When the perch are running this size, Id love to have a pond full of them, these are not that common in Central Iowa. I kept a handful to eat, and gave the rest to some relatives that eat fish but dont get out much.

    sliderfishn
    Blaine, MN
    Posts: 5432
    February 2, 2009 at 1:33 am #743516

    WOW, those are sumo’s

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    At the owners request, we kept all the perch. The perch were someones “midnight stocking” into his pond, and he would rather they not be there.

    I am sure that we could arrange a IDO GTG and rid him of those nasty perch

    Ron

    NickJohnson
    Posts: 255
    February 2, 2009 at 1:46 am #743518

    wow those are dandy perch im on board for the gtg to rid them of those nasty perch

    wade_kuehl
    Northwest Iowa
    Posts: 6167
    February 2, 2009 at 2:21 am #743529

    Beautiful Perch!

    jighead-two
    Cedar Falls, Iowa
    Posts: 642
    February 2, 2009 at 3:49 am #743545

    WOW…those ARE nice

    eye-full
    Waterloo,Ia,USA
    Posts: 660
    February 2, 2009 at 4:37 am #743557

    Awesome fish, crappie looks good too.

    nick858
    Eldora, Iowa
    Posts: 367
    February 2, 2009 at 3:40 pm #743617

    Thanks guys. Is there anybody on here that does reproductions? My buddy is going to get one of the perch he got, and for the life of me, I cant remember where I had mine repro done. Seems like Northern MN, and they shipped it to me?

    andyjcraig
    Iowa City, Iowa
    Posts: 390
    February 2, 2009 at 8:43 pm #743727

    Nice perch Nick. I think I’m going to start a midnight stocking program in eastern iowa.

    fish-them-all
    Oakdale, MN
    Posts: 1189
    February 3, 2009 at 9:00 pm #744161

    Nice tigers! Could Artistic Anglers in Duluth have been the place for the reproductions?

    chomps
    Sioux City IA
    Posts: 3974
    February 5, 2009 at 11:36 pm #745115

    give me a shout, I’ll help tackle some population problems.

    HommeDeNord
    Independence, Iowa.
    Posts: 82
    March 5, 2009 at 5:02 am #755223

    Andy, Hopefully your midnight eastern iowa stocking program will take place at Volga Lake in N.E. Ia. The lake really needs something. Could use some vegitation in the lake also…

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