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Bairdiella chrysoura

How to catch Silver perch in Florida

Silver perch feed in 58–88°F water and bite best at 66–82°F.

3 pts · trophy at 10"Feeds 58–88°FBest 66–82°FIn season nowGrass flatDock / pilingsChannel edgeMangrove shoreline

About

The little croaking drum of the grass flats and the docks, the bait stealer with a yellow fin, and a fine pan fish if you keep enough. Every Florida kid has caught a hundred.

How to fish it

A #4 hook and a piece of shrimp over grass or under a dock. The bigger ones go in the well for the snook.

What it eats

shrimpsmall jigsworms

Live bait for it

Live shrimpUnder a popping cork or free-lined, hooked under the horn on a #1 to 2/0 circle hook; on a jig head for the bottom. The universal inshore bait.