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I caught a big fish! (lemmy.world)

submitted 8 months ago by Bunnylux to c/fishing

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This was my first time catching a perch and eating it too.

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[–] Zachariah 5 points 8 months ago

reel nice

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Nice catch! Is that baited with chicken?

[–] Bunnylux 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Thanks! No, it's a little bit of shrimp

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I'm fairly new to fishing and I've been mostly targeting trout with lures, so I'm trying to pick up tips, so thank you! I got a medium power and action rod as a hand-me-down that I was thinking of setting up for targeting bigger fish, can ya tell me how you're targeting perch? Like where to look and so on?

[–] Bunnylux 3 points 8 months ago

Hi, I'm new too and I don't know much about the language or technicality of it. I got this perch in a small lake/pond off the shore, using a bobber and putting the shrimp down about 2.5 feet, with a medium sized hook around 7 pm. I was more trying to get a catfish, I didn't even know there was perch in this lake.

[–] Dkarma 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Eat it!!! Perch are delicious!!!

[–] Bunnylux 6 points 8 months ago

I ate it already! Battered with Cajun breading and pan fried

[–] hydrospanner 1 points 7 months ago

Nice one!

I caught two nice perch yesterday on a kayak trip, but not quite as big as that one.

Try using a slightly smaller hook and bait piece and you'll likely pick up more perch in the same location, but smaller. In my experience they often tend to be a strongly schooling fish, meaning where there's one, there's often ten or more!