First White Perch 2023

[J. Rentch]

Launched at a local creek off the Severn River this morning to fish for White Perch. Water temp was 71, air temp was 65 and the winds were from NW 5-7. After the launch I headed over to the shaded shore line and started throwing a small white Clouser (6wt, F line). After 30 minutes if landed my first fish. It was 9.5".
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I continued fishing up the shaded shoreline and found a half dozen more, all less than 8".
Near the end of the morning I switch to a spinning rod with a "Big Nose Spinner" and found a couple more nice perch.
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This was a short fishing morning-house duties, so I was off the water by 10:30.

[Mark]

Good for you, John.

Nice to know the perch are arriving on schedule.

[J.A. Veil]

I launched with John. We fished different sections of that particular tributary. I threw a Bignose spinner and caught 28 perch -- by far my best perch catching of the year. It is good to see that the perch can now be found in our local waters along the shoreline shallows.

[dsaavedra]

Way to go guys. I caught a decent number of white perch in a South River tributary a couple days ago, good to hear they are available in the Severn creeks too.