Fishing for White Perch

White perch are extremely fun to catch and even better to eat. Many different anglers’ fish for these perch, and most all of them have their own secrets that they believe adds something to their success at finding, and catching, the white perch.

The first thing you need to know is that a white perch like most perch likes to have cover to hide in. So when you are attempting to locate the white perch you need to fish where there are tree tops in the water. Many people take their old Christmas trees to the lake after Christmas is over and they tie weights on these trees to make them sink to the bottom of the lake. The white perch will use these tree tops as cover to hide in and the angler has a baited hole for his perch fishing pleasure.

You will find the most of the white perch near tree stumps in the water, and near the piers of docks. These are the places where they can find natural vegetation to hide in. When you fish for white perch you can expect to get hung up at least once.

White perch can be caught on artificial lures. Most people use a jig when they use an artificial lure to fish for these perch. Worms will attract the perch but live minnows seem to be the food of preference. The white perch can be fickle. They generally like their minnow moving. Catfish will bite a dead minnow just as fast as a live minnow but white perch are pickier about their food than the catfish.

Where you find catfish next to stumps in lakes you can generally find white perch also. If you are catching the catfish then reel your line up one more turn and see if you do not entice a white perch to take a bite. These fish change the depths of water they like depending on the weather conditions. They are in deeper water when it is really hot or really cold. Because of this you will need to fish at different depths until you find the exact depth the fish are currently happy at.

Some white perch fishermen even use a line with a float so they can set the depth of their minnows. This method works perfectly well sometimes but for the most part the closer you get to the debris under the water the more fish you will catch.