Simcoe Perch

Have the perch started schooling in Cooks Bay and/or off Pefferlaw? If not when does the fall perch fishing get started on Lake S?

guess no one is fishing perch ,I received no replies either, I'm just going to go !!!

Hey folks,

I'd help, but I don't target perch. I'm sure someone else can help out if they know.

I'm going to Cooks on Thursday which is very early in the year for me....
Not sure what it depends on but when I go for fall perch it always has been way colder.

I have not been for perch on Simcoe in quite a while but perch on Simcoe is biting ALL YEAR ROUND, including right now.

The areas I go is Cooks bay and Eastern basin - Port Bolster/Beaverton area.

In Summer it's more of a morning/evening bite and the closer it's get to the fall the more they are schooling in larger schools and willing to bite throughout the day.

Shiners is your best bet and bigger ones get bigger perch in general.

This a pic from a few years ago when I took a friend and his dad perch fishing in mid September to PB area.

Good luck and let us know how you did.

Good info.

Perch are tasty, but fileting a ton of small fish like that would be a chore.

For medium sized and smaller perch I scrape the scales with a fish scales remover and fry them with skin .
So yummy… 🤤

So just scrap scales, take guts out, chop head and fry?

Yes , pretty much

For medium sized and smaller perch I scrape the scales with a fish scales remover and fry them with skin .
So yummy… 🤤

Mmmmm crispy perch skin is the bees knees

I have not been there for a few years now, but I used to go to Lake Simcoe during the Canadian Thanksgiving Holiday for 15 years in a row and we always got a lot of large perch in great numbers during that three day trip for us. I may do it next year if they open Canada to us without all of the extra testing we have to go thru for the Covid.

Was on the east end of the lake today, just to test the waters for perch. Looks like they didn't yet show-up in big schools. I also didn't have any minnows with me. I managed two nice size and a few smaller perch along with some pumpkinseeds and a small bass. Kept those two for dinner. Big schools should show-up on their usual digs pretty soon.

Couple of nice jumbos !
Water is cooling off and the perch maybe shallow now chasing shallow moving minnows .
Last week I was fishing couch for bass and pike and caught 5 good keeper perch on a jerkbait in 8-9 FOW

Now that Simcoe laker and whitefish are closed for the season, I am going to head back to Cook's Bay looking for those yellow and jumbo ones:-)

Couple of nice jumbos !
Water is cooling off and the perch maybe shallow now chasing shallow moving minnows .
Last week I was fishing couch for bass and pike and caught 5 good keeper perch on a jerkbait in 8-9 FOW

Looks good . I tried a few different lures like Simcoe bug, Rapala Ripping Rap and Jigging Rap, and some jigging spoons. The larger jambo fell victim to the Ripping Rap, smaller one to a Simcoe Bug.

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