Perch Spawning Locations

  • Jake_A
    Posts: 569
    February 25, 2009 at 3:35 pm #1300378

    Where would be an area to look for spawning perch to catch through the ice?

    andyb
    Farmington, MN
    Posts: 139
    February 25, 2009 at 3:40 pm #752247

    I believe if you can find a shallower area with sand and weeds that would be good, I could be wrong tho been quite a while since ive quarreled on perch.

    jeremy-liebig
    mpls
    Posts: 1455
    February 25, 2009 at 5:57 pm #752323

    They are definitely pre- spawn in the metro right now. Still finding them staging deep near the shallow bays. Might post a report this evening.

    scottsteil
    Central MN
    Posts: 3817
    February 25, 2009 at 6:53 pm #752344

    Most lakes they spawn on Gravel bars. Usually the ice is so bad you can’t fish when they start spawning.

    Johnthomas
    Posts: 8
    March 2, 2009 at 4:07 am #753950

    Perch don’t actually spawn until the ice is out. The water temp. needs to be between 45 and 55 degrees so they will usually spawn in 6 feet of water or less which will be the warmest water on the lake. The actual spawning process usually happens at night or early in the moring. Perch are unique in that they need to deposit there eggs, which come out of the female in long coiled strings, on verticle stucture, preferably weeds. In lakes that don’t have weeds, perch will lay there eggs on the bottom of the lake, but the eggs have very little chance of hatching due to being covered in sediment and washing up on shore. This is why some lakes, particularly in the glacial Dakota lakes, have such erratic perch reproduction. During drought years, there is no vegetation resulting in little or no perch reproduction.

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