Tips on Fishing for White Perch

White perch are the preferred fish of many anglers. They are a mild tasting fish that resemble a bass in the way they look but have flesh that tastes milder than that of a bass. The white perch spawns between April and June each year and these fish love live bait.

When you are fishing for white perch you want to use live moving bait as your first option. Small bream have been known to attract these fish and they love minnows. They will also eat crawfish, crickets, grasshoppers, small shrimp, and of course all manners of worms. But sometimes the fish can be picky and will want their dinner to be moving in just the right way before they will consider it.

When you are fishing for white perch then you should be getting hung up or tangled is some type of brush or tree top. These fish love to be close to tree tops, stumps, piers, and things like this. Fishermen say that if you are not getting hung up you are fishing in the wrong place to catch a white perch.
You will often hear these fish being referred to as croppie or crappie. It all depends on the location you are fishing at. In Georgia they refer to these fish as croppie and the fish are generally ten inches or smaller while at Lake Sam Rayburn in southeast Texas the fish are called crappie and they have to be at least ten inches long for them to be a legal catch.

These fish put up quite a fight when they are hooked and this creates a lot of fun for the angler when they try to reel them in. You will want to use rather light tackle because the fish can bite very demurely and then again they can hit the bait like they are a five pound bass.

You want to have a net to help you land the fish because the hide at the corners of their mouth tears easily and you do not want to get your fish to the boat only to have it tear loose and swim away.
As the weather heats up the fish go deeper looking for cooler waters so when you are fishing for these fish remember to try out different depths to see if you can locate the exact depth they are at.