I went and tried the white perch last night thinking it was a little early but caught 10 beauties and 1 small mouth that I threw back. The small mouth was about 16 inches and full of eggs, sorry I didn't have my camera with me. But, the perch were running big for me and we werecasting off shore. A friend I had with me says come up this way and try it. As, he was catching them first. I just smiled and said I am alright right here, in the end he caught seven average perch. I showed him mine and he said yeah you did pretty good there. They had averaged around 12 inches.