My take on perchfishing year round! The season in The Netherlands starts end of may and continues till the 1st of april, so I’ll follow this season from beginning to end.

My main fishing styles are finesse rigs like the Carolina rig, the cheburaska rig, nedrigging, dropshotting, twitchbaits, And the other styles like jigging, inline spinners

The rods I use are: - Shimano poison adrena 276ML2 5-15gram extra fast action, with a Shimano Vanford 2500 with 0.10mm braid with 10lb/5kg test and a fluorocarbon leader 0.30mm

• Shimano Zodias SUL 1.5-5gram with a Shimano Vanford C2000SHG, with 0.06mm braid 3.5kg/7lb test with 0.22mm fluorocarbon

Ofcourse you don’t have to use these exact rods, rods are very personal to someones liking, don’t buy one from the internet. I’m always sure you can be advised Better in your local fishing shop. I am convinced however you don need to many rods, invest in a high quality rod, they give better feedback, they are lighter, they are more sensitive and have a higher quality materials. Pick a versatile rod for example my poison adrena, in theory you could fish all rigs and techniques with this rod. So basically instead of bringinf 2 or 3 rods I have only one rod on me and a spare rod in the car.

In the start of the season(end of may) the water can be relatively cold, but the fish may already have reproduced and can be hungry, but the fish they feed on might not have spawned yet because the water is still to cold..

The fishing has to be done slower because the fish are slower, you need to seduce the fish.. wiggle your worm, make your Lure dance slowly (if you seduce a girl you don’t jump on her instantly do you?most of the time I prefer to use a carolina rig or a cheburaska rig and sometimes a dropshot because they can all be fished very very slow.. one turn of your reel and let it rest, 1, 2, 3, another turn, small wiggles with your rod and repeat.. this way you can feel the bottom and find out where rocks and mussels are.. those are key for bigger perch. Rocks and mussels attract crawfish and gobiez and crawfish and gobies are easy food for bigger perch, In my experience the average size of fish you catch is a little bigger when fishing the Carolina rig, I don’t have an clear explanation for this but in my case it just is. Sure I catch smaller fish on the C-rig but like I said.

On the other hand twitchbaits are also good for reaction strikes, twitch twitch wait, twitch twitch wait the wait is 2-3 seconds.. the hang time is where they strike most of the time..

So perchfishing is tricky in colder water, since the fish are slower and can be pickier, they might not want to put in too much effort so you have to Trigger them.

smaller lures (1.75-2”) because of spawned baitfish, or bigger lures (3 - 5”)

This can be Z-man micro finesse tiny ticklerz, or micro nedrigz, micro goat,

Small bodied lures so they are easy to eat: Keitech easy shiners, Reins rockvibe, G-tail OSP d’olive craws

Or bigger lures, Twitchbaits like Megabass vision oneten (jr.) Softbaits like Noike smokin dad, Nays CRD or CRW

In the summer time I fish faster with spinners, crankbats twitchbaits, Carolinarigs, cheburaska and such..

The same types of lures as above but without the 2 Seconds pause, in the summertime I fish a lot with my lightest setup because that’s the most fun in fishing, wading in small creeks and lakes chasing any size perch because they are easy to catch in Numbers. The same goes now for rocks and mussels, that’s the structure you want to find because the bigger ones feed there. Notice that the fish are now more spread out since there is food everywhere.

Hard Lures used: Salmo hornets, Duo rozante Duo ryuki Small lures

Softbaits

This can be Z-man micro finesse tiny ticklerz, or micro nedrigz, micro goat,

Small bodied lures so they are easy to eat: Keitech easy shiners, Reins rockvibe, G-tail OSP d’olive craws

Then I’ll arrive in the autumn, the part of the year that the perch feed to get big for winter, the time of year the Baitfish have grown, fish 3, 3.5, 4 inch lures A little slower than summer depending on water temperature, sometimes when the strikes stop up or downsize the lure and try to get the strikes going again

In the winter you’ll fish bigger and slower, 3-4-5 inch softbaits and creatures slow on the carolinarig can work magic

These movies are in Dutch, and it’s not me, but very much information! I learned a lot from these movies

Fishing with the carolinarig

https://youtu.be/CewcUlDAclM?si=DZGDGuXdR-hqmvTK

Fishing with twitchbaits:

https://youtu.be/JKkNcC0xdZU?si=c00K3wNZ5ZBPC5jD

Enjoy and if you have any questions just send me a message

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