15" 2lb perch

[fishin'magician']

http://pmsports.net/yahoo_site_admin/assets/images/001.35245335_std.JPG

I only know it was caught in Ludington

[NorthChain]

It's a fattie!

[lookin for the gills]

Thats a HOG!!!!!!

[esoxer]

That's what I'm talkin' bout!

[eddiejohn4]

Man I could use about 50 of those.:)

[Joeker51]

Whoa ! :SHOCKED: Gotta get me one of them !

[johnobub]

very nice catch

[T4HALO]

congrats!

[WALLEYEvision]

...And I thought the 12"er I caught out of Hamlin a few years back was big. That's one awesome perch!

[DaveW731]

....maybe that perch knew some baseball players

[dobes]

That perch takes FGH (fish growth hormone):D. You should put that sucker on the wall . Pretty good chance you'll never catch another that big . Great job and thanks for posting the pic .

[Gone Fishing]

That's a beauty! I've fished Perch for almost 50 years and haven't topped that! Congrats!

[rico1391]

I've only seen two bigger than that. Caught by the same guy, from the same lake while fishing for rainbows. The first one was 15 1/2 he got it mounted, then two week later he gets a 16 3/4.......well, his wife wasn't gonna let the second one go to the taxidermist

[automan4025]

I got one that I have mounted from Hubbard lake 16 inches 2 and a half pounds.

[DE82]

GREAT fish, when I was like 14 I was fishing off shore at metro early in the year with my dad and brother with a perch rig and got a 14incher that weighed 2lbs according to a spring scale. I was SOOO Happy. Sadly those are so rare in that lake now I may never get another one there again :(

[BigEyeHunter]

That for sure is a nice fish.
DE82 There are still nice fish to be had in LSC. We get a couple every year around 14 inches. I always seem to find bigger fish south of where you have been fishing, all we need is ice!!
My buddy got one last year that was just shy of 15 inches

[DE82]

That for sure is a nice fish.
DE82 There are still nice fish to be had in LSC. We get a couple every year around 14 inches. I always seem to find bigger fish south of where you have been fishing, all we need is ice!!
My buddy got one last year that was just shy of 15 inchesThat's some good news. My Dad's told me how that lake once was with jumbo's. It's sad it isn't like that anymore. Regardless that's a beauty that was posted.

[jampg]

Man O Man! NICE!!!

[JDHUNTER]

Wow, That is a hog leg:D

[grizzzcd]

That's a mounter, good job.

[RJSwirlz]

Is that photo digitally enhanced? Jeezo, that's a pig. I caught 30 last saturday that were about as long as the stripes on that perch. Nice Job.

[wartfroggy]

shawn, do you know who the kid that caught it was?

[Boardman Brookies]

what a PIG!!!! I am getting hungry!

[Dking(MI)]

:yikes::yikes::yikes:

[Craig M]

Mmmmmm, big perch!!!!!! It's nice to see them! I hope the kid mounts it too 'case their arn't that many of those pigs around.

In Lake Huron, my biggest was 17 inches way back in the late 80's, it was long and skinny and my heaviest was a 15 1/2 incher from Lake Simco that went 2.66 pounds (also late 80's). Being a young stupid kid at the time, I ran a knife through both of em.


Where's seaweed when you need him? That hunny needs to milked!:lol:

[jlcrss]

That perch takes FGH (fish growth hormone):D. You should put that sucker on the wall . Pretty good chance you'll never catch another that big . Great job and thanks for posting the pic .

Yeah I think I saw that fish's picture in the Mitchell Steroid Report.

[sfw1960]

Nice pic Shawn you don't know this guy then??
How'd you come across this???


RAS

[brigeton]

It does't look like a Lake Michigan fish. I used to get jumbos out of Pere Marquette in Ludington but it petered out. I did catch a 16 incher on a tip up once out of a little lake in northern Kent county.

[Willie Tippit]

I got one that I have mounted from Hubbard lake 16 inches 2 and a half pounds. my dad and grandfather use to troll for big perch in hubbard and the stories were told of some reaching 19 inches....Good Luck Mark

[ALLEYES]

The fish was caught out of Pere Marquette Lake. Out in front of Copeyon Park. But the ice is getting real iffy now.

[fishin'magician']

I found the pic on pmsports checking the fishing report. I just wanted to post the hog even though it wasn't mine.

[laker24]

thats a hog and, i mean hog

[doublell]

Belive it or not Lake Gogebic in the far western UP produces perch like that on a fairly regular basis.

[teacup13]

well whoever caught it, its a beaut

my biggest was 2lbs 4oz in Saskatchewan Canada - the amazing part is that she didnt have any eggs in her, imagine the weight if she did..lol

[AceMcbanon]

the only perch i have caught of size and didnt realize perch records before deep frying it. But it did taste great.


Lake independence still not near the record. But it was negative 15 out and the only fish caught. almost 20 inches




http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v209/AceMcbanon/000_0298.jpg

[laker24]

world record perch 3lbs 5oz 16.5inhttp://www.dnr.state.md.us/dnrnews/pressrelease2006/2007record_yellow_perch.jpg:yikes:

[teacup13]

world record perch 3lbs 5oz 16.5inhttp://www.dnr.state.md.us/dnrnews/pressrelease2006/2007record_yellow_perch.jpg:yikes:

actually that fish is the 4th largest caught in the world but the biggest in Maryland.

1st - 4 pound, 3 ounce perch caught in New Jersey in 1865
2nd - 3 pound, 12 ounce perch caught in Michigan in 1947
3rd - 3 pound, 8 ounce perch caught in New York in 1982

[laker24]

sorry, i just skimmed the artical

[teacup13]

sorry, i just skimmed the artical

no prob, i just wanted to make sure that everyone knew michigan had a bigger fish than that one..lol

[walleyein]

nice perch.

[jtmethod125]

Look at that stomach, what a fat ass. I bet it was good eatin!

[Fish_on]

Way To Go.:)

[bucko12pt]

actually that fish is the 4th largest caught in the world but the biggest in Maryland.

1st - 4 pound, 3 ounce perch caught in New Jersey in 1865
2nd - 3 pound, 12 ounce perch caught in Michigan in 1947
3rd - 3 pound, 8 ounce perch caught in New York in 1982

Never knew what the world record was. When I was a kid back in the 50's, my great uncle was a commercial fisherman in Omena, which is north of Traverse City in Leelanau Co. I remember going over to his place once and his guys had gotten the gill nets into a bunch of spawners and they had a bunch of fish that were 2-3 #'s and one that was over 4#. To this day, I kick myself for not getting that fish, but no one was into mounting fish back then and I was just a kid anyway. It was gutted with all the others and went into a box of ice and shipped to Chicago.

[fish-on]

Would'nt take many of those to make a meal :corkysm55:corkysm55:lol:.

[tracker14]

I'd like 49 more of those. That would be some extra weight to bring back in off the ice.:D

[sigman]

Nice One! My big one in the avitar was no where near as FAT!