white perch
noun
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: a silvery anadromous bass (Morone americana) chiefly of the coast and coastal streams of the eastern U.S.
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There the fish was positively identified as a whopper white perch by Cleyo Harris, a DNR fisheries biologist.
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Bob McNally, Outdoor Life, 23 May 2024
A lot is going on and there is always abundant pickerel in the tidal flows and throw in the annual white perch and shad runs.
—Jim Gronaw, Baltimore Sun, 10 Mar. 2024
Big rock bass and smaller creek smallmouths will positively clobber it, but the dressed tail hanging below it also mimics a flying insect in the water, and white perch, bluegills, and chubs will often grab it and just pull the popper under.
—Joe Cermele, Field & Stream, 16 May 2024
The other had an intact white perch stuffed inside it.
—Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 2 Aug. 2023
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Bob McNally, Outdoor Life, 23 May 2024
A lot is going on and there is always abundant pickerel in the tidal flows and throw in the annual white perch and shad runs.
—Jim Gronaw, Baltimore Sun, 10 Mar. 2024
Big rock bass and smaller creek smallmouths will positively clobber it, but the dressed tail hanging below it also mimics a flying insect in the water, and white perch, bluegills, and chubs will often grab it and just pull the popper under.
—Joe Cermele, Field & Stream, 16 May 2024
The other had an intact white perch stuffed inside it.
—Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 2 Aug. 2023
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“White perch.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/white%20perch. Accessed 14 Jul. 2025.
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