Dono says "I would hate to go small mouth. My goal is perch #1 even if I need to net and cull the young perch."
Then use SMB as a last resort. You should be able to manually thin by various methods adequate numbers of the most abundant sizes of YP to maintain the desired balance of size classes.

Last edited by Bill Cody; 05/28/16 08:44 PM.

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