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Title: Perch on the fly?
Post by: spiros on 17/10/2006 at 20:08

Was wondering what types of fly to use to catch Perch does anyone have good tips?

Paul

 :grin:

Title: Perch
Post by: Hamish Young on 17/10/2006 at 22:11

They'll take pretty much everything in my experience, but anything reddish usually works well IMHO  :wink:

Title: Perch on the fly?
Post by: Dutchfly on 18/10/2006 at 08:18

A Mickey Finn usually did the trick for me.

CU

Jeroen

Title: Golden Oldies
Post by: Kev Danby on 18/10/2006 at 08:39

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.

Title: Perch on the fly?
Post by: Mike Barrio on 18/10/2006 at 23:09

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

Title: Perch
Post by: Mike Livingstone on 18/10/2006 at 23:57

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!!

Title: Perch on the fly?
Post by: Rob Brownfield on 23/10/2006 at 08:08

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.