wanderer
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GULP MINNOWS
Wondered if anyone tried the emerald shiner gulp minnows for perch on erie thought it might save on buying many dozen emeralds thanks
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RE: GULP MINNOWS
2012/03/15 14:02:32
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Tried it once during a pretty fast paced perch bite. An emerald cut into 3's works better than gulp. lol
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RE: GULP MINNOWS
2012/03/15 14:25:47
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Thanks good idea emeralds get a little pricey sometimes guess it doesnt matter though boat gas for truck motel perch about $300 dollars a pound lol sure is fun though thanks again
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RE: GULP MINNOWS
2012/03/15 16:30:02
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I tried it for perch last year and did pretty decent. We were running out of minnows so I put one of them on and caught a bunch. They caught about the same as live minnows, but that was only from one experience...
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RE: GULP MINNOWS
2012/03/15 16:56:03
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thanks i run out of minnows sometimes i got into them one time last year on waxworms tryed them one day just for heck of it
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RE: GULP MINNOWS
2012/03/15 16:58:28
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As much as I love Gulp minnows for smallies, I have tried many times to perch with them. No luck. Used the 1", 2.5" and 3". They wanted NOTHING to do with them. Ended up jigging a Silver Buddy to get a few in the box.
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RE: GULP MINNOWS
2012/03/15 19:09:50
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I only buy a couple dozen live minnows when we go out. If you can get the perch fired up, you can switch to salties and they never know.
You could also buy a minnow trap and leave it out while you fish the first dozen. Depending on where you are fishing it can fill up pretty quick.
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RE: GULP MINNOWS
2012/03/17 11:22:21
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I don't know about perch but did good on crappie and some huge gills on the 1 inch ones last spring.
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NeFiShNeTiMe
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RE: GULP MINNOWS
2012/03/18 01:09:51
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I believe that the Lake Erie perch pretty much are fixed on the emeralds. Any other lake ya can just about catch perch about anything. I have tried tons of plastics and jigging raps but they just want those shiners. If ya run out of bait use the eyes out of the fish you are keeping.. Works well on all perch erie and inlandI
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RE: GULP MINNOWS
2012/03/18 21:48:59
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tried gulp and powerbait minnows. no good. BIGTIME bite was on, and ran out of emeralds. caught pigs on tube jigs w/grubs, but not one nibble on the fake minnows. case closed.
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RE: GULP MINNOWS
2012/03/18 23:24:31
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ORIGINAL: NeFiShNeTiMe
I believe that the Lake Erie perch pretty much are fixed on the emeralds. Any other lake ya can just about catch perch about anything. I have tried tons of plastics and jigging raps but they just want those shiners. If ya run out of bait use the eyes out of the fish you are keeping.. Works well on all perch erie and inlandI
+1 Ive used the perch eyes and they work
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RE: GULP MINNOWS
2012/03/19 07:46:30
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Slammed the perch, in the bay, on tube jigs with no bait attached. They were even hittin the PERCH lookin rubber minnow. As for the lake, they dont seem to want artificial. Sometimes the salteds wont work either. But NEVER have I seen them turn down a live minnow.
BH
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