Late ice perch fishing

[Brian662]

Got out this week to get on some fish late ice on the Mississippi River. Hard to beat spring weather on the ice.

 

[Catscratch]

That doesn't look like spring to me!

The fish look great though! I'm going to have to find a way to catch and eat a perch someday. I hear they are very good.

 

[Jerry-B-WI]

Nice haul on some fat perch. Do you have trouble with grubs in the perch? I remember my Aunt and Uncle having a cabin on a lake in MN and the perch were no good because of the grubs.

 

[Catscratch]

I don't think the grubs make fish bad to eat. Maybe just unappetizing if the thought of that sort of thing bothers ya?

 

[roymunson]

holy smokes! Those are some fatties

 

[Brian662]

Nice haul on some fat perch. Do you have trouble with grubs in the perch? I remember my Aunt and Uncle having a cabin on a lake in MN and the perch were no good because of the grubs.

Never have had that problem

 

[Bill]

Don’t think I’ve ever seen perch that have been fed so well.

 

[Mortenson]

Nice haul on some fat perch. Do you have trouble with grubs in the perch? I remember my Aunt and Uncle having a cabin on a lake in MN and the perch were no good because of the grubs.

Hot peanut oil takes care of that problem. More protein.

 

[Brian662]

Switched it up today and ripped a few bluegill lips or as they call them in Minnysota "sunnies".

 

[bwoods11]

Fish are definitely biting !

This was back when we had fish houses out in Western MN …

 

[Ben.MN/WI]

Those are some jumbo perch, that's awesome. Were you down by LaCrosse? I've heard they are biting well there right now.

 

[Ben.MN/WI]

Nice haul on some fat perch. Do you have trouble with grubs in the perch? I remember my Aunt and Uncle having a cabin on a lake in MN and the perch were no good because of the grubs.

We've never had a big issue with those white grubs in fillets from the Mississippi River, but some lakes have that problem.

The first time we fished Lake Vermillion, we caught a pile of jumbo perch that we kept. When we were in the fish cleaning shack, we learned why nobody else kept them. I've never seen so many grubs in the meat, there was no way we were eating them. It was odd though because the walleye, bluegills and northerns from that lake had no grub problems.

 

[bigboreblr]

Having an Ice Fishing Shanty is a HUGE bucket list item for me. Anybody see something cosy for two that an ATV can tow. I do have a snowmobile too.

 

[fishin coyote]

Don’t think I’ve ever seen perch that have been fed so well.

They’re spawners full of eggs…That’s a mighty fine looking pile of fish. Brian how developed were the eggs?

 

[Cool Hand Luke]

Nice Job Brian!

 

[Brian662]

Don’t think I’ve ever seen perch that have been fed so well.

You should see our women.

 

[Brian662]

Those are some jumbo perch, that's awesome. Were you down by LaCrosse? I've heard they are biting well there right now.

Yes, LaCrosse area

 

[Brian662]

They’re spawners full of eggs…That’s a mighty fine looking pile of fish. Brian how developed were the eggs?

They're pretty developed I guess, only a few weeks away from them starting to pile up by the dams.

 

[Howboutthemdawgs]

Growing up in Minnesota my grandfather would take me to a fish camp on prior lake. We would spend all day catching sunnies with mealies (maggots i suppose?). But anytime he caught he perch he would hit it on the side of the boat and throw it back. I never knew what that was all about. This was a man who loved to eat fish. I always grew up thinking perch were trash fish but I’ve seen been edumacated. Maybe he did that because of the grubs? First I’ve heard of that.