What is this fish called in your neck of the woods? (Page 7): Blue Gill on top Yellow Perch on bottom. You ever make a trip this far, we have more Yellow Perch than they can trap and...

Johnston89 Loc: Eastern Oregon

Blue Gill on top

Yellow Perch on bottom.

You ever make a trip this far, we have more Yellow Perch than they can trap and net out of reservoirs, very abundant and absolutely delicious, eat as good as a crappie do, if they're caught in good water!

Redwhiteskirtfan Loc: N C

I grew up calling the top one bream and the bottom one red fin trout. Learned later it is yellow perch. We used to call war mouth perch yellow perch. I recall the yellow perch as really hard to scale.
Tight lines

Jawjajoe

Top is Bluegill
Bottom is perch

Able Man Loc: North Coast (Cleveland, Ohio)

Spiritof27 wrote:

I put this picture into another post on here, but thought I would do a separate post to see if I might get more responses. I find it fascinating, the number of names we all have for the same fish in different parts of the country. So, these are just about anywhere in the US that folks fish, except for a few places probably, when you catch one what do you call it?

And the second picture, where could I go in California to catch one of those? And what would you calll it?

What do you call them, where you're at, Spirit?

Johnston89 Loc: Eastern Oregon

Justoldjim wrote:

Most lakes in Oregon have them

Yeah seriously, that map is missing some serious info, I have perch in a lot of the white area in Oregon, way over to the Idaho border!

Johnston89 Loc: Eastern Oregon

Big A wrote:

Hi, ranger ! Don't know where you br are in Calif... (show quote)

That map is missing a ton of info! Must really old or something

I have personally caught Yellow Perch in a huge chunk of the white part of Oregon, South Eastern Oregon, has a ton of them, all the way to the Idaho border.

Brownlee Reservoir which is on the Snake River bordering Oregon/Idaho has a healthy population of Yellow Perch and has since the Mid 90s when I caught my first ones there!

Just Sayin!!

Johnston89 Loc: Eastern Oregon

Big A wrote:

Hi, ranger ! Don't know where you br are in Calif... (show quote)

Also Phillips Reservoir in Baker County, OR has over 1.5million Yellow Perch, roughly 87% of fish in this once great Trout fishery are now Perch, illegally introduced around 15 years ago!

In case you'd like more info on their range!

Big A Loc: Mesa, Arizona

Johnston89 wrote:

Yeah seriously, that map is missing some serious info, I have perch in a lot of the white area in Oregon, way over to the Idaho border!

It may be outdated - hard to verify
how recent anything may be on the
'net', especially since my phone is
my only computer, and haven't yet gotten it down pat ! I'll see if I can
dig up anything more recent !

Spiritof27 Loc: Lincoln, CA

Able Man wrote:

What do you call them, where you're at, Spirit?

.I grew up in Indiana, not California, so to me they are bluegills and perch. I just have noticed that folks in California, at least around here in Lincoln, tend to call bluegills perch. I just find it real interesting.

Big A Loc: Mesa, Arizona

Big A wrote:

It may be outdated - hard to verify
how recent anything may be on the
'net', especially since my phone is
my only computer, and haven't yet gotten it down pat ! I'll see if I can
dig up anything more recent !

So far, no good ! I'll try again on the library computer next time I go !

Big A Loc: Mesa, Arizona

Since we're on the subject of yellow perch, here's a little 'human interest' story that is definitely related !

The young lady in the photo is
12-yr.-old Tia Wiese, holding her
world-record yellow perch, caught somewhere in Idaho back in 2014 !

The perch weighed 2 lbs.11.68 oz.
and measured 15.5 inches, with a girth of 12.75 inches !

Spiritof27 Loc: Lincoln, CA

Oh my!

Johnston89 Loc: Eastern Oregon

Big A wrote:

It may be outdated - hard to verify
how recent anything may be on the
'net', especially since my phone is
my only computer, and haven't yet gotten it down pat ! I'll see if I can
dig up anything more recent !

Okay cool!

I wasn't trying to call you out or say your wrong, and I appreciate you not taking it that way!!

I just happen to live over here and have my whole life and there's definitely some good opportunities to catch some Yellow Perch

I find they're one of the most overlooked/under appreciated fish as far as table fare goes. Most people around here have never tried Perch which can be caught year round pretty easily but are obsessed with eating Crappie which are only easy to catch a few months out of the year without a boat and some knowledge
I think its pretty interesting

Able Man Loc: North Coast (Cleveland, Ohio)

Big A wrote:

Since we're on the subject of yellow perch, here's a little 'human interest' story that is definitely related !

The young lady in the photo is
12-yr.-old Tia Wiese, holding her
world-record yellow perch, caught somewhere in Idaho back in 2014 !

The perch weighed 2 lbs.11.68 oz.
and measured 15.5 inches, with a girth of 12.75 inches !

¡¡Phookin' WOW!! (What a SLOB!)

DCGravity Loc: Fairfax, VA (by way of Cleveland OH)

Big A wrote:

Since we're on the subject of yellow perch, here's a little 'human interest' story that is definitely related !

The young lady in the photo is
12-yr.-old Tia Wiese, holding her
world-record yellow perch, caught somewhere in Idaho back in 2014 !

The perch weighed 2 lbs.11.68 oz.
and measured 15.5 inches, with a girth of 12.75 inches !

Holy cow!! I've caught tons of perch from Lake Erie growing up but never any even approaching that size! Looks like a mutant!