White Perch

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   Seems like my local lake is overpopulated with white perch (go lots of white bass too).
Any one know if the white perch are edible?
Seems like they hit at soon as the minnow touches the water!  Best size is about 10-11 inches.
BEAR

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Guests Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Guest	Post Options Post Reply Quote Guests Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: White Perch Posted: 21 June 2005 at 10:21
	Seems like my local lake is overpopulated with white perch (go lots of white bass too). Any one know if the white perch are edible? Seems like they hit at soon as the minnow touches the water! Best size is about 10-11 inches. BEAR

d4570 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List .416 Rigby Joined: 27 January 2004 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 9961	Post Options Post Reply Quote d4570 Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 21 June 2005 at 11:44
	I Don't Know what a white perch or bass is?????????? "D"
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Hudge Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List .375 Holland & Holland Magnum Joined: 30 October 2004 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 889	Post Options Post Reply Quote Hudge Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 22 June 2005 at 11:30
	D4570, White bass or hybrids or stripers as they are known by, are pretty popular fish in the South and Midwest. They are usually caught in lakers, and are fun to catch. Here is a picture.

Canku Nunpa Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List .243 Winchester Joined: 22 May 2004 Status: Offline Points: 136	Post Options Post Reply Quote Canku Nunpa Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 22 June 2005 at 11:46
	If this is the true White Perch (Morone Americana) and not something just called that - yes it is good to eat. When I was kid, the colloqial name for Fresh Water Drum was "white perch."

d4570 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List .416 Rigby Joined: 27 January 2004 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 9961	Post Options Post Reply Quote d4570 Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 22 June 2005 at 11:47
	Thanks?? We call Lake trout "LAKERS" There is no White bass up here!!
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drinksgin Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List .243 Winchester Joined: 17 October 2004 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 218	Post Options Post Reply Quote drinksgin Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 22 June 2005 at 13:05
	There are a lot of problems with common names, most are not really common, but very regional. White perch, black perch, sac-a -lait, paper mouths, are all regional names for the white and black crappie, a sunfish with no relationship to the perch family. Lage mouth, small mouth and spotted "Bass" are actually sunfish, not basses, also large mouth and spotted "Bass" are called green trout in some places, again , no relation to trout, even though the name of large mouth is Micropterus Salmoides, meaning small finned salmon, the collected fish that was named had a damaged fin, smaller than normal. Most sunfish are called perch or brem/ bream, none of them are perch, walleyes, yellow perch and darters are perch. There are no brim/bream in the Americas, they are a European family. Rio Grande perch is not only not a perch, it is the only member of a very large family of chinchlids that extend through Mexico, Central America and South America, the best known one being the peacock bass, again , not a bass. Members of the Morone genus are the true basses, most are anadramous , that spend at least part of their lives in both salt and fresh water. Striped bass, white bass, yellow bass are native to the US, the hybred bass is a cross between the striped bass and the white bass.Morone Americanas is not a perch, but a true bass. The common names are really misleading. Don Edited by drinksgin
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	When I was a kid we called freshwater drum sheephead. In the Mississippi river on the west side of Wisconsin the small ones were silver but as they grew to the bigger sizes they had a reddish cast to them. In the late summer the meat got kind of mushy as the water warmed. In the spring they had a firm white meat that filleted easily and fried up very well. We caught them on gobs of crawler fished on the bottom with a slip sinker. RD
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Guests Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Guest	Post Options Post Reply Quote Guests Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 23 June 2005 at 04:10
	These are "white perch', yep that is a misnomer as they are actually from the bass family. the same way a largemouth bas is NOT a bass at all but an overgrowth sunfish family member. Freshwater drum was always a "sheephead". And they do indeed have an ugly sheed looking head. some guys call them "Savageheads" also. I do find the New York custom of calling a walleye an "yellow pike" disturbing, it doesn't look like a pike, act like a pike or taste like a pike. But if I want to sound 'local' I'll ask other guys if they caught any 'yellows'; if they stare blindly at me I know they are visitors from Ohio. Our walleye population is down and I suspect the invasion of the white perch had something to do with it. White perch like walleye eggs. BEAR