Perch near Edmonton

[Penner]

Plenty of lakes around Edm to catch a Perch. If you want to catch a few to keep for the frying pan you'll need to travel quite a distance further for that.

Originally Posted by pikeman06

Pike and perch and whites were doing just fine until the massive stocking of walleye that were protected way too long. All the people fishing for walleye they couldn't keep would whack the pike and perch so they could have a fish dinner. Used to be plenty of big pike and perch not to mention a nice structured whitefish population for decades. They will never recover to fishable populations without stocking. I guess someone decided walleyes were the way to go at the expense of other species. It's happening in gull right now and sylvan is a couple years away from being a runty walleye lake too.

So ill informed, lol.

[forestrover]

Morinville and Cardiff are just trout ponds. Someone caught a few pike last year (which shouldn't be in the ponds) but I don't believe they hold any Perch at all. I've only caught small trout there.

[pikeman06]

Originally Posted by Penner

Plenty of lakes around Edm to catch a Perch. If you want to catch a few to keep for the frying pan you'll need to travel quite a distance further for that.



So ill informed, lol.

Here's a biologist. Lol.

[liketoshoot]

Best perch fishing close to edm is long lake. Fist the narrows before january and you will be impressed

[Mackinaw]

Elinore first left from ramp first bay on left back of the bay RHS close to reeds

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[Alberta Bigbore]

Originally Posted by 3blade

Updated. I used to hammer them and cook up plenty of 6-7 inchers from Cardiff, Nak and Morinville most weekends, no harm as they needed to be culled.

Had some bad winters about 10 years ago and all the little perch spots got killed off, and have not recovered. Nakamun hasn’t either. Cross (along with most of the lakes around there) and garner got fished out. Haven’t seen a perch at moose or fawcett since the walleye regs - stupid policy that wrecked way more than it fixed.

Honestly don’t have the slightest idea where you would find perch south of slave.

Lol!

[Alberta Bigbore]

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