45cm redfin perch
Posted Jun 8, 2020, 9:47 AM UTC
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This is so absolutely massive for a perch wow!
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They do grow into the 50's, still a dream to catch one of that size.
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Mooie vangst!
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Kon ook niet anders dan dat ik een Nederlander was he!
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Hahahah ik zag het ook al! Dikke vis man!
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Lmao and here’s the perch I caught yesterday. They don’t get very big in the lake I fish.
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That's a yellow perch. North America has yellow perch. They are a lot smaller than red perch.
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Yeah I know that but when then I still haven’t caught many yellow perch bigger than like 6 inches.
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Yeah it really depends on the lake. Some lakes hold huge bass and bluegill, but have dinker perch. Some lakes have huge perch and walleye but very few bass and bluegill. Usually the farther north you go the bigger the perch.
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The best lakes for yellow perch are large, flat, shallow lakes with lots of weeks and no northern pike/Musky to eat them all. The weeds give them places to hide and the shallows give lots of warmer water for bait fish and forage to spawn in.
Allegedly, anyway. Biggest perch I've ever caught was only as long as my hand. Still tasted good though.
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What is it with Netherlands and HUGE perch
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The Netherlands have beautiful fishing waters. I live in Northrhine Westphalia and everyone here who likes spinfishing journeys there
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That and we have a lot of waters that are easy accesible, I mean, I can fish anywhere in Holland and the longest travel time will be just 2 hours to get to the other side of the country :)
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Fuckin toad 🤙
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Fatty
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Did you weigh it?
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Jesus!
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2kliksphilip?
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Damn, what happened to your bass?!?
;)
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Dude, I wish we had bass here in the Netherlands, still a dream to catch one.
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Come to North America! They're everywhere and relatively easy to catch.
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Are they good to eat like the yellow perch?
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I only C&R because I live 5 minutes walking from the coast so I'm more of a salt water fish eater, but I believe yellow perch and euro perch taste pretty much the same, like Zander and Walley if I'm not mistaken
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Must have been using a whole trout as bait
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Get you a girl who looks at you the way Bro looks at his Redfin!
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Must have been a really fun drill on your new 10g W4 ;)
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Ngl you freaked me out for a second there but after looking at your profile I know how you know what rod I was using . How are you man.
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Holy crap.
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Did you weigh it? I love perch, one of my favourite freshwater fish here in the UK. I have caught them to maybe 1.5lb but that looks at least close to 4 if not more!? Going to google what is the perch record in the NL.
Edit - NL record is 56cm here https://www.fishinginholland.nl/english/about-us/news/79/new-dutch-perch-record-56-cm!.html It doesn’t mention weight either - are fish not weighed generally in NL for any reason? The UK record is 6lb 3oz.
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I think we generally go for length instead of weight, the only thing we measured in weight here is carp. But I might get a cheap scale to weight perch if I ever manage to get a decent size one again.
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Amazing fish!
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I guess that's what I was catching. A few weeks ago I caught some perch with red find but I thought they were yellow Perch. Guess I was wrong.
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So we started to drive to the location at 5:30 am, 1 hour passes and we are on location. Walking for 15 minutes to the first hotspot if the day, nothing, and nothing it would be for the biggest part of the day, switching from spot to spot we slowly started to move into the city centre's channel's. We finally found a spot with active fish, we caught a couple of perch in the high 30cm's , but still nothing worth a good picture.
The day passes and we start to make our way back to where we started early in the morning, so I casted out my rod with the c-rig and a craw, fishing it really slow, suddenly I feel something slowly nibbling at my bait, I wait, I wait longer as the fishing has been slow the whole day, then it comes, with confidence I set the hook, and minutes later this beautiful perch comes up to the service and we're sort of freaking out.
The perfect end of the day.
Wow, that's a beast. Nice catch. đź‘Ť