Originally Posted By: Cecil Baird1
Originally Posted By: teehjaeh57
Originally Posted By: ToddM
No ice here yet but the YP are sure active with the cold water.



She's a beaut - nice work, looks ready to pop!


Really nice but she'll get much bigger before she drops her eggs in the spring like this:




As I mentioned earlier in the thread for some reason our feed trained perch don't develop their ovaries as rapidly as their wild counterparts, but no one commented.

Here's a wild counterpart, beleve it or not, caught ice fishing.



No one grows YP like Cecil and Cody...I'm happy just playing in the shadows they cast. Gotta love a high standard to pursue - those guys are expert YP fishery managers.


Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after. ~ Henry David Thoreau

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