North Carolina White Perch not Crappie

[BobbyRN]

Hey can someone tell me what a kind of fish folks from North Carolina are. Being from Louisiana a white perch and a crappie is the same.

[Mike Cork]

We had an indepth conversation about this a few weeks back, and I was in the same boat as you. A white perch is a crappie is a sac-a-lait but what some other states north and east of Louisiana call a white perch is like our bar fish or sand bass here is a link to what their version of a white perch is.

http://www.seagrant.wisc.edu/greatlakesfish/whiteperch.html

[BobbyN]

Yes sir, I tried to tell them that was not a white perch  but for some reason they don't lisen. The same with what they call an aligator gar, its a long nose gar but they call it an aligator gar. Boy theres a big difference.

[BobbyN]

The white perch, yellow perch (ratcoon perch) and blue gill are biting in Lake Waccamaw. Bait of choice red worms, crickets, minnows and spinner baits. Best on live bait.

[blake711]

are you saying the crappie are biting?    sca-a-lait.. Never heard that sure enough them old folks in Lousiana call them that.. Crapie description

[Fish On]

Today when I was fishing in my first tournament I was using a crankbait or a jig.  Which me and my partner used anc caught 18lbs 6oz. limit to win the tournament with.  I was using a rapala DT6crawdad color in murky water and had schools of perch follow it to the boat.  After that I had caught like 10 perch and wanted the bass not the darn perch.  Later on that day I encoutered another school of them but caught bass attacking them perch!

[BobbyN]

White Perch Not Crappie 

[BobbyN]

This fish is in the Stripper familiy.
http://www.cnr.vt.edu/efish/families/whiteperch.html

[BobbyN]

This is another perch that we have.
http://www.cnr.vt.edu/efish/families/yperch.html

[Mike Cork]

Sac-a-lait, first time I heard it I thought it was a in a different country