Biggest Perch ever!

[Renneberg]

I went fishing out on Leech lake this weekend and caught my biggest perch ever. 15 inches. It was great watching that big girl swim in and hit my bait. The only bad part about that day was that I had a second one on equally as big, but got the hook caught on the bottom of the hole and watched her swim away.

I was wandering what everyone elses biggest perch is and what lake did you catch it on?

[Guest]

13 inches on LOTW

[slick2526]

11in stump lake, becker county

[Wigeon]

I was fishing with a guy who caught a 1# 12oz and a 1# 14oz perch in less than a hour. The bigger one he got after coming back from shore and his bobber was down.Lucky,Lucky,Lucky!!

[chow]

Saw a 15.5"er come out of a lake in Canada last year (bad part was that it was on my uncles line about 20 feet away). My personal big perch was from lake Simcoe (sp?) in canada through the ice and it was 13.5"

chow

[fisherman]

Thats a huge perch! I caught one this year on L.O.W. that went 14 1/4 and many others 12-13.

Good fishin'

[mistermom]

14" a month ago on LOW.

mm

[Selmer]

15" 2lb. 6oz. on my wall. I came out of Lake Preston in SD during the winter of 95-96, what a year for perch fishing! Of course it killed out during that horrible winter of 96-97, too bad.
Selmer

[mtreno]

15in on mille lacs 2001 opener
picture is on my desk

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[shadrapla]

2 14 1/2 inches perch round lake (near big winnie lake) on opening i have them mound and still wait for it to be done

[Renneberg]

WOW! Those are all big perch!

[Snowman]

17 3/4" out of Hobart Lake near Valley City, ND in February of 2001. I didn't (and still don't) own a scale, so I never weighed it. I would guess she would have been fairly close to the 3 pound mark. All I can say is that it was one of the most grotesque looking fish I have ever seen.

[Guest]

14.25" shortly after Christmas '02 on a lake real close to where the MN state record perch came out of.
It was so ugly and spotted, I let her go. Wish I had a picture of it, well, it was so ugly maybe not!

[Renneberg]

Hey Snowman, depending on what time of year you caught that pig it could of gone 4lbs easy. She was at lease 3lbs.

[John19]

Amazing a 3lb(plus) perch, way to go snowman!! I didn't think they could get that large.

[Gotem]

A 3lb(plus) perch?? The state record form '82 is only 2lbs 15oz. I think there was a little drinking going on.

[merc]

Fishing and drinking?? I didn't know anyone would do that!!!

[Selmer]

Gotem, what state are you talking about? The SD record has been broken a few times in the last ten years, in 96 when I caught my 2 lb. 6 oz. perch it would have been SD record two weeks earlier, it got bumped up to 2lb. 9oz, and that is the official state record, altough I've heard rumors of larger caught they were never official, I caught mine on February 27th, 1996, the state record was caught Feb. 24th, 1996, and a co-record was caught March 30th, 1996, those are the official numbers in the book.
Selmer

[Gotem]

North Dakota, since that's were Snowman caught this 3lb+ perch. Read the previous posts.

[Snowman]

I guess I will defend myself. I never said the weight of the fish that I caught, only the length. If you don't believe me, that is up to you. A perch that size is very uncommon, and I consider it the catch of my lifetime. I have a few pictures, but they really don't do the fish much justice.

During the time that I caught mine, there were a lot of large perch being taken from Hobart. I personally saw a 16" perch caught by a fisherman that same year and my wife's cousin caught one that went 16 7/8" that I saw a picture of.

By the way, I don't drink, and though I have heard and told many fish tales over the years, this one was real. I guess that I shouldn't expect everyone to believe what they read on an internet bulletin board and I am not surprised by the response. However, I know the truth and I don't care what anyone else says.

[Selmer]

Got it Gotem, thanks for the clarification, and 3 lb.s is one HUGE perch, but I believe the guy, I've seen some people with huge fish that don't even know it might be a trophy, they're just out fishing for supper and look, they caught supper for the next two weeks!
Selmer

[Guest]

When I was attending college up in Ely at Vermilion C.C. my roommate and I used to slay huge perch on Shagawa everytime we went out(3-5 times/wk). This was back in the winter of 95-96. Both of us caught perch in the 15"+ class. Of course we were broke and hungry and stuck a knife to every last one of them. We used to joke with our other roomy from Washington D.C that we were going to the fish market to pick up some fresh fish for supper!Thats how good the perch fishing was for us.

[Havin' Fun]

Several 14" on Mille Lacs...of course several years ago. Last winter a 14.2" on Otter Tail.
Buddy got a 14" on Vermillion last summer.

I believe SD state record perch was caught last winter.

[walleyewacker]

Was just wondering what the length of the Mn record is. I was looking and it only gave a weight. Would anyone possibly know how long this was. Had an experience this winter but im not going to even bring it up yet for people to spectulate.

[Lunker]

I know this is a little off topic, but my dad caught a beautiful 3lb bass years ago that he decided to have mounted. Well the bad sighted taxidermist painted the fish like it was a perch when he mounted it. So my dad had a 3lb bass that looked like a perch!