Yellow Perch

[Wooden Arrow]

I have never caught one of these - or had a chance to eat one. Are YP in upper northeast tn lakes (Boone, PH, Cherokee etc). ?

have never heard of them here in those lakes. folks might be catching them but not mentioning them. Patrick Henry should be good for them, deep and cold. there are some in upper end of Tellico lake if rumors are true. Chilhowee & Parksville too.

 

[Lt.Dan]

Nothing special about this. I'm just showing off a pair of yellow perch we (me and partner Bill Swan III) caught on Chickamauga yesterday while trolling for crappie. Crappie are great, but big yellow perch are the icing on the cake! I wish I knew how to specifically target them (on Chickamauga) rather than the occasional random catches. I've targeted them up in the mountain lakes where they are far more plentiful, but have never tried in on the Tennessee River. Anybody else ever tried?

Biggest one was 13.75 inches(well over TARP length, but I've already got a YP TARP )

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Next best thing to Walleye

 

[CATCHDAWG]

have never heard of them here in those lakes. folks might be catching them but not mentioning them. Patrick Henry should be good for them, deep and cold. there are some in upper end of Tellico lake if rumors are true. Chilhowee & Parksville too.

Strangely enough, I don't catch them in deep water, actually pretty shallow. Cold water, yes, but not deep.

 

[Smoke]

I have never caught one of these - or had a chance to eat one. Are YP in upper northeast tn lakes (Boone, PH, Cherokee etc). ?

Ive never caught any up here but have seen pics of a few. Saw a good mess supposedly caught on Douglas about a week ago and saw a big one that was caught in a tournament on South Holston last year