Eating Yellow perch

[The Rusty Crab]

Awesome result of a post guys!!! Always wanted to go to Maine to ice fish, we talk about it all the time when on the ice here. 
I can believe 14 hours, my sister in law lived in northern Maine. Drove to her house once, was just over 12 hours.
I'm between Albany and Platsburg. I'm over two hours from Pulaski.
Still would be a great time, and worth any drive.

Total driving time was around 12 hours but stopping to eat, we did take a quick spin over to the beach to see if it was worth trying to hit for stripers, then waited outside cabellas for 1/2 hour. 

[Mainehazmt]

I go away for a day and you start this crap up!!!!   perch are for eagles only!!!  sea gulls even turn their nose up on em (got pictures!)I dont eat those worm infested things!   at the banquet I picked out the perch!   but if ya want to really get perch  come on up   got a few lakes we'd love to see em gone from   I do my part in eliminating all I can   we have derbys approved by the State of maine some with nice prizes for the most killed   last one up here  think was 250+ by one person    bring your bags up   ya can follow around on the ice and get your fill   I dont take em home EVER!

[bee]

I go away for a day and you start this crap up!!!!   perch are for eagles only!!!  sea gulls even turn their nose up on em (got pictures!)I dont eat those worm infested things!   at the banquet I picked out the perch!   but if ya want to really get perch  come on up   got a few lakes we'd love to see em gone from   I do my part in eliminating all I can   we have derbys approved by the State of maine some with nice prizes for the most killed   last one up here  think was 250+ by one person    bring your bags up   ya can follow around on the ice and get your fill   I dont take em home EVER!

  No leaving them on the ice anymore. Thats one of your trips you won,t have to do.

[J Man]

Nice. Welcome Team NY. Take all the perch you want. A few years ago i put my nephew onto a pile of them. this pic represents probably about a quarter of all we caught in a few hourse before the SuperBowl. I filleted these up and gave them to a friend from wisconsin. He was stoked. Nephew was as well.

[J Man]

Well, i guess you won;t see the pile until i figure out posting pics...

[J Man]

Better...

[H.T.]

Wow thats a nice pile of fish. are there worms in the meat or are they pretty clean 

[J Man]

Not sure. this is the first time i cut them up. It was during the winter, and i didn't see one worm. But, i hear that is to be expected during the winter...

[H.T.]

i can not belive that you guys dont eat perch. here in NY people will give there left nut for fish like that. i spend a lot of my ice fishing season chaseing those and monster blue gills. i would love to get up there this year. we will be working on a trip for sure. let us know if any of you guys decide to come down for some of these mud sharks that will be running the river soon. we will send you home with a truck load if you want them 

[The Rusty Crab]

i can not belive that you guys dont eat perch. here in NY people will give there left nut for fish like that. i spend a lot of my ice fishing season chaseing those and monster blue gills. i would love to get up there this year. we will be working on a trip for sure. let us know if any of you guys decide to come down for some of these mud sharks that will be running the river soon. we will send you home with a truck load if you want them 

Wish I would have known I just got back from lake Ontario.  We did boat one nice king but would have loved some "mud sharks"

[H.T.]

they are still out in the lake right now. another couple of weeks they will start pouring into the river. first or second week of october is normally prime time. keep an eye on the salmon river thread. 

[The Rusty Crab]

they are still out in the lake right now. another couple of weeks they will start pouring into the river. first or second week of october is normally prime time. keep an eye on the salmon river thread. 

will these fish have holes in them

[H.T.]

no guns on the river allowed so no bullet holes. just full of fish hooks 

[KingPerch]

Better wear armour gloves, there will be all sorts of sharp things hanging out of them!! They kinda look like x-mas ornaments once they get upriver aways!!! --KP

[The Rusty Crab]

will these fish have holes in them

I heard about the old times when they would use the pitch forks to scoop the fish out of the river.