Yes! good idea. I need to find the closest lake that has them and see if I can catch them. The problem as you know as they can be very hard to coax to bite
I have switched gears in the meantime and have a few PS that I believe spawned late summer of 2018. I didn't see any spawning beds summer 2019 but I had turbid water and a big bloom much of late July and August. It didn't clear till the weather cooled in mid September.
On the to do list before life and medical setbacks set in was to make a minnow trap to sample my young panfish and see what I have. When they are tiny I'm not sure I can tell the difference between a baby RES vs a baby PS anyway...
