Crankbaits for perch

[Water Wolf]

Hi everyone, what crankbaits/stickbaits do you like to use for perch?

WW

[Waubay Fisher]

I've picked up a few while trolling in shallower water on Rapala Shads in perch color... also remember getting one on a blue/silver color too.  Have never tried cranks/plugs for them specifically though...

[camo_fish]

I got a big perch last year on a 1/4oz. Rat-L-trap last spring. 
Good Luck, tube-jig is always the easiest and best way. 

[Big Burk]

Caught my share of them on Rapala Shad Raps

[vipercat64]

My wife always seems to get them on floating rapala's.  Usually the 5-7 sizes, in perch color, but has even gotten them on the #9's, usually blue or green...even firetiger a couple times. 

[ButchT]

A lot of the perch I caught through the ice this winter had small (1") crawfish in their stomachs.  I'm going to try Rebel Wee Craws fished deep, twenty feet +, probably behind bullet sinkers either cast and retrieved or slow trolled.

[bassjunky]

I dont think that cranks are an effective way to target Perch

Yes you will cath the odd one while using cranks...but if you are targeting them you may be in for a long day.

[Fishingking]

I remember about 7 years ago catching numerous perch one day on a blue/white sinking Rapala that was about 2 inches long.   It was catching perch pretty decent but I  do not remember catching any bass or pickeral on it that day.

[Basskicker]

I catch them on a small redfin stickbait.

[Rapala]

Yo-Zuri Snap Bean

[MasterAngler]

I dont think that cranks are an effective way to target Perch

Yes you will cath the odd one while using cranks...but if you are targeting them you may be in for a long day.

I concure.  Never used a crankbait ever for perch.  Theres is more effective ways to catch them.

[drakeman70]

I use the Rebel Wee Craws alot. The lake we fish has lots of crayfish, but they only seem to work where the crayfish actually live.  If you try using them over the sand flats you are out of luck, but in the rocky gravel bottom we limit all the time.

[reelNeYesin]

sounds to me everyone picked up a perch here or there
are you guys really targeting perch with such baits and why?
if you want to eat im sure you will change your bait soo

[panfishman13]

I dont think that cranks are an effective way to target Perch

Yes you will cath the odd one while using cranks...but if you are targeting them you may be in for a long day.

aha! i know for a fact that you can specifically catch perch on crankbaits, last year i went through all the local stores and bought the smallest ones i could find, i even found a rapala husky jerk no longer than my thumb. the ones i've caught them best on were gold yo-zuri snap shad and snap beans,
snap shad:
snap bean:

other tiny crankbaits work also, but yo-zuri is the only company i found that makes them almost exclusively for panfish.
not to mention the occasional big bass

[Fatboy8]

Rapala original floater in shiner size 05 gets the perch and the crappie.