Pond Boss Forums INTRO Questions & Observations planning a PB member Yellow Perch experiment

xrayt - says "They (eggs) were like wet toilet paper and were ripping apart. Ended up being a lot of short sections of eggs with the longest being maybe 8 inches or so. I had to throw them a few feet into my friends pond to get them to lay on a submerged pine and then use a longer branch to wrap them in between branches. Are the eggs pretty resilient with some handling like I did? How long until you can minnow trap them and identify there survival?

If the egg ribbons were easily breaking apart then I think they were very close to hatching which is normal that they easily break apart. Eggs as they are hatching are very durable - handling actually speeds up the hatching time. I've never had much luck trapping small perch until they are around 2" long.