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   10.02.24

Yellow Perch in Kentucky?

Robert Welsh lll of Madison County, Kentucky, isn’t any stranger to bass fishing. He’s fished for bass his complete life and at present fishes the BFL Collection.

On Welsh’s newest journey, he was fishing out of his new 12.5-foot Feelfree Moken. “Oh, I like that factor! That kayak is lots of enjoyable. I can get into spots that I might by no means get to in a ship,” he mentioned.

Welsh was fishing at Lake Linville in Mount Vernon, KY, which is about quarter-hour away from his dwelling. The lake is about 360 acres. He has been fishing the lake for years and wasn’t anticipating to catch something over 2 kilos.

Welsh tried quite a few lures however wasn’t having any luck. That’s when he reached for a crankbait. “I attempted a buzzbait and tried a chatterbait. It was kinda darkish and cloudy with mild rain, which is normally prime time for a spinnerbait, however they didn’t desire a spinnerbait both,” he mentioned. “I don’t know what made me decide up a crankbait.” Welsh tied on a Cotton Cordell Huge O C77 Squarebill Crankbait in Perch coloration.

He made a number of casts and set the hook on what he thought was a log. “There was some extent with a rock and an oak tree hanging over it,” he mentioned.  “I solid on the market and it got here off the rock and simply stopped,” Welsh mentioned. He set the hook, and after he noticed the road transferring sideways, he knew he had a fish.

Welsh battled the fish and managed to get it close to the boat. “I used to be simply kinda enjoyable fishing, and I didn’t have a web,” he mentioned. “I reeled her up, and she or he got here near the boat, and I grabbed her.” He weighed it and the dimensions displayed 4.5 kilos. The bass was the largest bass he’d caught in Lake Linville.

However whereas the fish was a shock to Welsh, there was one other fish that he caught, that was much more of a shock. Welsh was casting and set the hook on what he thought was a small bass. He reeled it in and flipped it into his kayak. Because it was flipping round, he grabbed it so he might get a greater have a look at what he simply caught. “I obtained it, checked out it, and mentioned, ‘Man that’s a Yellow Perch,”

It was the primary yellow perch he had ever caught in Kentucky. Welsh despatched an image of the perch to his pal in NY. “My pal texted again and requested the place I used to be fishing,” he mentioned. Welsh informed him he was in Kentucky. “He was as shocked as I used to be,” Welsh mentioned. The bass fisherman didn’t understand there have been yellow perch in Lake Linville.

The catch reminded him of an outdated story he had as soon as heard from the locals. “A few of the older gents within the space used to speak a few truck that was carrying some yellow perch and broke down. Then the motive force simply threw them within the lake simply so that they wouldn’t die. However who is aware of if that’s true or not,” Welsh mentioned.

Whereas the report of yellow perch being caught in Kentucky is uncommon. The fish have been reportedly caught even farther south in South Carolina and Georgia.

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Keith Lusher is an award profitable outside journalist that resides in Covington, Louisiana. He owns and operates NorthshoreFishingReport.com and writes a weekly outside column for the Slidell Impartial Newspaper. He additionally writes for the St.Tammany Parish Tourism Fee’s VisitTheNorthshore.com. He’s the previous host of The Northshore Fishing Report Radio Present and is on the board of the Louisiana Out of doors Writers Affiliation. Keith contributes to quite a few publications each on-line and in print and prides himself on selling South Louisiana’s distinctive fishery. To contact Keith e-mail: keithlusherjr@gmail.com



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