It is such a beautiful place. Thanks for watching!

Was a jewel 😞

Ponds Solo Fishing I fried some of them up Saturday. 🤤🤤🤤

I don’t believe I said where I was fishing once. If someone knows the lake then they probably know about the perch. Nothing will stay a secret. The only thing that can save the perch is to set limits and size restrictions on harvesting perch. I spoke to the game warden out there several times and he told me that many people are keeping every single perch they catch. I’ve expressed my concerns about having no restrictions on them and everyone else should do the same.

Gotcha, I agree about restrictions. I've seen lack of restrictions become a big problem in parts of Florida. Hopefully they enforce it. I'll probably reach out to TWRA myself. The sooner they enforce it, the better. No I'll will btw, just hope something is set in place soon.

You obviously don't catch as many as you think because there's thousands of yellow perch in those lakes I know and they are undersized because there's so many of them

@@robertbaker231 I don't think anyone here is arguing that, my point is to prevent diminished population. I'm from Tampa Bay Florida, and I know what overfishing can do. Only reason fishing in TB is still good, is because of strict regulations. Without them, it would be a marine ghost town. These perch definitely aren't there yet, but the very fast growing attention to them points to first signs of concern. We saw it down there in the 90's with grouper, redfish and snook. Populations and fishing took a noticable dive, but increasingly strict regulations have kept it in check. Gag grouper used to be 22" and 5 a day with no closed season about ten years ago, now it's 24" and 2 a day with limited seasons... It's simple environmental science, the increase in attention and harvest, will eventually lead to diminished population. The great lakes have even noticed drops in perch and walleye populations from overfishing. Setting regulations, and fish stocks are the only way to combat this. It's not necessarily a matter of opinion, but a matter of fact.

Brittany Gunas he’s in 2 of my videos now!

Yep

I sure did thanks for watching!

DaWitts Wine Outdoors they all do. Some have higher populations like Melton hill and the clinch. These were up above tellico.

@@downriverfishing3639 ok thanks ill have to get on them and hunt some perch. the lakes i fish in tennessee dont have them. i think the spinner rigs i tie they will eat up like candy

DaWitts Wine Outdoors I’m not sure about rigs i just catch them with minnows usually. They like to hang out in about 30ft of water where I catch them. I use a double hook rig and spider rig. It’s a lot of fun when you get into a big school of them like we did In this video.

@@downriverfishing3639 we catch our big walleyes in 80 foot of water on dale hollow suspended in 20 foot to 30 foot we troll mainly

DaWitts Wine Outdoors that’s awesome bud! I’ve always wanted to get on some walleye but just haven’t been able to make it work yet. Down here in East TN we don’t have many of them. Most folks just catch them at the dams.