Bruce,
That's great! I think my record is in jeopardy in a few years but I welcome it. You see if you don't recall most of my perch did not stay on pellets, and I believe I would have had consistently larger perch if they had. Hopefully starting this year having perch in a seperate pond by themselves will help.
If you don't remember I did move about 60 females to a pond by themselves last spring but they had been off pellets for so long they didn't have much interest in them. Now I will be putting 4 to 5 inch feed trained perch in a cage and keeping them there until I can sort the males from the females the following spring or later. Males will be eaten. Females will be liberated into that pond or another one.
