Nobody knows more about fishing than this legend.

As usual with your work, the underwater footage is superb! Really nice-looking Yellow Perch. 👍

@timeonthewaterca

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you

Hi John! PHENOMENAL underwater footage- great video on my favorite species! I’ll be up Sunday night through Thursday. First trip in two years and I’m pumped! Staying on Duclos and will be fishing Woods and Chicken Bays.

I’ve just discovered your channel! This is great. Your videos are very educational as well as resourceful. Tight lines!

This is so helpful!!! I'm still learning to fish, and this was vastly more useful information than most of the big fishing KZreadrs out there. More like this please! (Maybe walleye and crappie for dummies?)

Really like your narrative through out the video. Neat underwater footage. Life long ice fishing yet sure can be challenging!

Great info that I haven't heard elsewhere. Thanks!

Great video! Really good information!! Thank you 🤠

The man The myth The legend.. always enjoy watching can't wait to get out this year 🙌

this is a solid video and gives folks a ton of options to try!

Very informative, enjoyed the information around tides and the moon too.

Not only that you are willing to share your knowledge but the way videos are edited is just perfect. It was pleasure watching it.

@timeonthewaterca

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you

Wow!! This is helpful, nice footage and tips

Great video John!im from Ottawa myself. Some good little spots around here for some jumbos, but never fished lady Simcoe! Glad I found ya, awesome video

@timeonthewaterca

5 ай бұрын

Thanks

Great tips for fishing perch. I use the 3 lure approach. Jigging Rapala first then spoon then micro tube the color of the scuds

Great scientific presentation! Thank you!

Excellent video and a wealth of information/knowledge. Thank you for sharing! I grew up in Sweden, ice fishing for large, European yellow perch. Now living just outside of Boston, I reconnected with my childhood passion of ice fishing again this season, after several decades of living and working in warm countries. I have been out on the ice every chance I've gotten this year. Nothing better. Fishing your Canadian perch waters would be an absolute thrill for me. I would LOVE to try my homemade Swedish jigs, lures and techniques and on Lake Eire or Simcoe. I'll definitely plan a trip next season, thinking the train has already left the station for this one. Thanks again for a great video!

@timeonthewaterca

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you and I hope you make it up here

Been a subscriber for a while now still putting a great content, thank you for your efforts I would love to go fishing with you sometime on the east side of Simcoe

I grew up being told bluegill and other small sunfish are called perch. Then I went to Wisconsin and actually caught perch. Not the same. 😂😂

This has to be one if the most informative fishing videos. Great job.

@timeonthewaterca

7 ай бұрын

Thank you

This is outstanding thanks from oneida lake NY

Thank you for the update.. Wish it was better for you folks.

Excellent so insightful!

Very informative, thank you!!

Fantastic video thanks

Great job there old man john✌

Miigwetch, simple but honest and effective. Thank you for encouraging to release what you won't eat

Greatings from Sweden. I fish perch at least 200 days of the year. About 100 of them from the ice. I agree you have to move around a lot in the middle of the winter. My go to bait for ice fishing is a big chromed spoon with a 25mm (1") long chain to a size 6 treble hook with a orange colored plastic bead. It works 9 out of 10 days. And it keeps the small perch of.

@timeonthewaterca

2 жыл бұрын

Are the perch there the same species?

@BoringJohnson

2 жыл бұрын

@@timeonthewaterca No it's their green cousins Perca fluviatilis.

@kabbythedog9409

7 ай бұрын

You are my hero

Great video!

Grea video!!

Great video

Excellent video, I wish you would come to Lake St. Clair (near Detroit) and give me a few lessons, Thank You

I needed this lol! Thank you for this awesome video. Can you do fishing for dummies for whitefish and Lakers also?

@bryanbenson6551

2 жыл бұрын

For whitefish, I found using a jig with a spawn egg on. Jig it about 12" off the bottom.

think ill just watch that again!

WOW! simply wonderful and informative. Just getting into ice fishing, kids are stoked and now so am I. Definitely will invest in an underwater camera. Any suggestion on augers? Hand or drill driven. I'll be on lake simcoe, this winter, so any advice is welcome :) Thanks :)

@timeonthewaterca

8 ай бұрын

I like the K-drill 8.5 inch. It's east to get a drill adapter, can be used for any species, and is very light. As for a hand drill, I like the Fin Bore. Just make sure to keep it sharp.

@SankaAbeysinghe1976

8 ай бұрын

Thank you :) @@timeonthewaterca Checking them out right now

Really helpful video. Ty! Do you know if there's a blood worm hatch in Presque Isle Bay in Erie?

@timeonthewaterca

Жыл бұрын

There typically is in most lakes.

Great information and underwater footage . What's the camera that you use hope too see some more jumbos tight lines 🎣

@timeonthewaterca

2 жыл бұрын

The camera in the video is an Aqua-Vu HD Quad cam

I’m happily married to my wife. But I think I love you. That was an amazing video. I learned more about perch fishing in 11 minutes 15 seconds then I have my 45 years on this planet. Please let me know anytime I can join you fishing.

@timeonthewaterca

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you. I try to make my videos fun and informative

all the ice here in metro detroit just melted past week. maybe a late freeze will save tje season

@timeonthewaterca

5 ай бұрын

It's not a good year for ice.

👍

Does the first ice period shift later when ice has taken a lot longer to form on lake simcoe this year? Also what is your go to colour for the Berkley nymph?

@timeonthewaterca

Жыл бұрын

First Ice generally lasts until the lake is frozen over and the ice is well established. My go to color is chartreuse

Were taking a trip to misery bay next weekend. Is it really as easy as just going out and catching them. Or is there alot of work to find quality fish ?

@timeonthewaterca

2 жыл бұрын

If they spawn in the bay it shouldn't be that difficult. I'm sure there is some local knowledge that can be found in fishing forums that could give you a general idea.

Excellent video and incredible footage. Have you considered dispatching fish that you keep, or is there a reason that you don't?

@timeonthewaterca

2 жыл бұрын

Sorry for the delay in replying. What do you mean dispatching them?

@LostLakes

2 жыл бұрын

​@@timeonthewaterca I mean any means of killing them instantaneously, like a club to the brain. I've found that they can cling to life for a frightening amount of time out of the water so I dispatch them with a club

@farinafranqui

2 жыл бұрын

@@timeonthewaterca He means killing

@timeonthewaterca

2 жыл бұрын

I just catch more than I can eat.

@LostLakes

2 жыл бұрын

​@@timeonthewaterca Yeah I get that but what I'm asking is for the fish that you do keep, if you've considered an instant dispatching method like a club vs asphyxiation on the ice

Hi there,Evening/morning John sir. Very nice & imformative video. Thanks for sharing. New subscriber. If I may ask,Where did you get the johnson slim fish?

@timeonthewaterca

2 жыл бұрын

I bought it up here in Orillia at Tromblys. But I think Cabelas still have them

@roniler7960

2 жыл бұрын

Hi there,Evening John sir. Ok thanks,Will check there or see if i can find Tromblys website if they have one.

H John what is your experience with ice fishing Lake Erie Perch in early March in long point bay ?

@timeonthewaterca

2 жыл бұрын

No experience at Long Point but may make the trip this year.

@ john whyte Very cool interesting info; Where is this? The ice is ready to fish on?

@timeonthewaterca

2 жыл бұрын

Lake Simcoe

Hey John, do you start shallow then go deep. At this time of year what's the ticket. Some days I do well and some days it's tough. Is that normal or am I doing something wrong

@timeonthewaterca

2 жыл бұрын

I have been fishing 15 to 25ft lately.

@Fueledbyfishing13

2 жыл бұрын

@@timeonthewaterca moving alot?

How come I rarely see guys fish with wigglers. Lots of time I don't get it to the bottom. It gets hit before it gets down there ?

Hey John, are you noticing that the Perch are in deeper water due to the long stretch of cold weather? I’m really good at finding dinks. Lol

@timeonthewaterca

2 жыл бұрын

I don't think they ever went shallow. I'm still fishing 20+ every day. But I did find some in 12 ft the other day

@epicdream3r992

2 жыл бұрын

@@timeonthewaterca thought I’d change it up for once on Saturday and head out to Sibbald point but didn’t see a single perch. Went to 35 fow and worked our way to 27, 22, 18, 14 and 12. Didn’t see a single fish LOL. I had a cam and sonar with me as well. Was so baffled! My first time ever not seeing a single fish.

As I age I no longer take offense at the notion of "for dummies" in the past my ego would scoff at for dummies stuff. Nowadays lol.....I embrace and enjoy a simplified, plain tutorial. Call me lazy or call me wise.......just don't call me late to the fishing hole

@timeonthewaterca

2 жыл бұрын

I appreciate that and know where your coming from. Take me to the first steps until I get in the groove. The older I get the more I forget lol

Do you ever fish little and big cedar?

@timeonthewaterca

2 жыл бұрын

Yes. Mostly in the spring

Which part of the lake do u fish most John

@timeonthewaterca

Жыл бұрын

Mostly the north end.

The perch in North America (what you call yellow perch) have some differences to their European relatives. The ones here are way too bony to eat, though they make good fishing.

@timeonthewaterca

2 жыл бұрын

But European perch grow much larger.

@skateboardingjesus4006

2 жыл бұрын

@@timeonthewaterca They can grow to an OK size here in Ireland and they're just about in every river and lake.

What size johnson slinfish spoon and where can I purchase these

@timeonthewaterca

2 жыл бұрын

2.5 inch

what underwater camera are you filming with?

@timeonthewaterca

Жыл бұрын

Gopro 11

@dranthonyjay

Жыл бұрын

@@timeonthewaterca nice! do you attach it to your Aqua Vu somehow or just dangle it?

@timeonthewaterca

Жыл бұрын

It attaches to the Aqua-Vu cable

@dranthonyjay

Жыл бұрын

@john whyte interesting! i was thinking you clamp it on the aqua vu. how do you attach? ive been using a telescopic painter pole (20 foot long) and hard-mounting both the gopro and aqua vu so they aim the same direction but your way sounds better

@timeonthewaterca

Жыл бұрын

A friend made me a plastic clamp.

Can I clean and cook the fish on ice? Going thus weekend

@timeonthewaterca

2 жыл бұрын

Sure. Why not

Cooks bay 5 feet of water

@timeonthewaterca

2 жыл бұрын

Yes there is always shallow fish as well.

Fishing the tough bite for 2 weeks now...ooof. dink after dink and then a hog and then no more bites....wax..wigs..min head.. spikes..perch eye. Nothing