Fishing The Fly Scotland
Index => Main Discussion Area => Topic started by: spiros on 17/10/2006 at 20:08
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Was wondering what types of fly to use to catch Perch does anyone have good tips?
Paul
:grin:
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They'll take pretty much everything in my experience, but anything reddish usually works well IMHO :wink:
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A Mickey Finn usually did the trick for me.
CU
Jeroen
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I used to catch a good few perch on the River Dove using appetisers, Jack Frost and white lead head lures.
A gold head fritz with long marabou tail would probably be effective or perhaps a cats whisker variation. As Hamish says perch seem to like a bit of red in the fly.
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A PTN with an orange thorax used to catch more than my fair share of Pitfour Perch :wink:
Did alright with the rainbows too :z4
Best wishes
Mike
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I've been catching the yellow perch over here in Maine using a red buzzer or a cats whisker. The pickerel seem to love cat's whiskers too!!
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Years ago at Loriston I used to catch heaps on size 12 or 10 Red Tags, Soldier Palmers etc..but these days I fish large flies upto 5-6 inches long, normally something like a Bunny Bug. Naturally I am trying to get BIG perch on flies like this :grin: Black seems to be a good colour for some reason at this size.
When lure fishing for Perch I am using plugs of a similar size.