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Old 11-17-2017, 05:42 PM
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I have had the worst fall of fishing...so far......in many a year. I went today looking for crappie at Nickajack and found none...zero...nothing. I knew a bank that holds a lot of red breast sunfish so I headed to it and whipped out my super UL spooled up with 1.5# test line. I caught around 100 of those and some of them were in the 8 inch range. A lot of fun on the supper UL with the very light line. I started catching yellow perch. My first thought was “I am not going to catch many so no need to save one fish”. Well after I had caught 15 of them like in the pics I thought “Man was I stupid not to save them”. ‘This can happen to us at any age...but it seems the older one gets the more it can happen....LOL.


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Old 11-17-2017, 07:13 PM
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Throwing the first 4 or 5 back is not stupid. After that on becomes a dumb ass.

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Old 11-17-2017, 08:10 PM
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Those look huge.
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Old 11-17-2017, 10:42 PM
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Wow nice! we have yellow perch here?
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Old 11-17-2017, 11:06 PM
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Wow nice! we have yellow perch here?


I have caught them on and off for years in KY Lake while crappie fishing....mostly in winter. But I have never caught any as big as these. East TN has a pretty good population of yellow perch at a good size but in middle TN you don’t see many this size.

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Old 11-18-2017, 09:14 AM
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I had no idea we had yellow perch in TN. Good looking fish!
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Old 11-18-2017, 12:38 PM
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Nice catch your bad year is still pretty darn sweet another great post like you style are the yellow perch considered an invasive fish in that part of tn
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Old 11-18-2017, 01:07 PM
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Good stuff alpha how deep were you fishing
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Old 11-18-2017, 05:50 PM
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Nice catch your bad year is still pretty darn sweet another great post like you style are the yellow perch considered an invasive fish in that part of tn
Oh no....there are just not many around.....and the ones that are don't get anywhere near the size of those they catch up north.

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Old 11-18-2017, 05:52 PM
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Good stuff alpha how deep were you fishing
It was between 4-6 feet of water.

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Old 11-18-2017, 08:58 PM
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It was between 4-6 feet of water.



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I always like to catch the yellow perch. Kind of like a prize.
Caught them on Tennessee River. Nickajack and Ky Lake.
Always release as they seem to be scarce. I understand they are tasty.
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Old 11-18-2017, 09:03 PM
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Perch are in the Walleye family so you know they're great eating. It was a main food fish I targeted when I grew up in Michigan. I've caught a few in Kentucky Lake, but yeah, they're few and far between in TN.
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