White perch school in large numbers, keeping to deep water during the day and moving inshore at night. An angler who is fortunate enough to locate a school of feeding white perch is in for some fast and furious action. They are palatable, but not among the most popular panfishes in New York. Distribution of white perch in NY state. Dark dots represent where actual samples of white perch were taken.
White dots represent historic distributions.
A 330 KB image of the white perch is also available for download .