MT, thanks so much for jumping in and offering your experience! I find it fascinating that most people are finding the perch are happy to lay eggs in 10-12" water.
I also see that Missouri has March dates and WI and MN have had April dates for first sighting of egg ribbons. Hopefully this spring can post dates, water temps and maybe we can line it up with weather locally to see if fronts, angle of sun on horizon, daylight hours, phase of moon, or simply water temps is the thing that matters to the fish.
MT, what part of pond did you see most of the ribbons, N, NW, S, SW, etc?
Also, what was the forage base that produced the monster LMB? From your story it seemed that the perch went in later and were not the backbone of the forage that the LMB were doing so well on? If they were dining on perch, wouldn't the remaining bass be doing equally well now as there are still plenty of perch of all year classes in there?
