Pond Boss Forums MANAGING AN EXISTING POND Evaluating and adjusting fish populations Poich!

Last fall I added 200 5-8" YP to our new to me waters. I haven't seen them since, but now I know some survived.

This school is hanging out by the dock consistently.

Joyous!!

Soiiiitanly!


Now I just need to find the time and a solid plan of attach to find the adults and see how they are doing. I typically only get an hour or so per visit to fish as I have ongoing projects, but I think I'm catching up. With the perch I have no idea where they are hanging out. I can only guess deeper water.

The young'uns are liking the stump/roots that I sank next to the dock and shallow shelf that the boat used to park on. It's been so rainy that I pull the boat up on the dock so that it drains so the shelf has been exposed.

Those are some little bared beauties...Congrats!

Went out to raise the dock Saturday. Checked the minnow trap and found a good sized mud minnow. I set the trap back down for a bit and when I checked again I found this:

Nice yellow perch from this year's hatch.

Congrats!

Fish with minnows or worms within a foot of the bottom in your deepest water (if you have decent DO down there) and you should find them. They're actually a very reliable species to find and catch. Minnows work the best.

I prefer to use a slip bobber rig for depth control and to keep them from swallowing the bait. Keep sliding your stopper line up the line towards you until the the float sits on its side due to the bsit lying on the bottom. Then pull the stopper line away from you six or twelve inches and you're set to go.

It's been a nice "indian summer" the past couple of weeks. Kicking myself for not getting the boat out on the lake and taking advantage of full reservoirs, 50's temps sunny and flat water...

Lots of small fingerlings to be seen near the cover of the dock. LMB, BG, and to a lesser extent perch as they have obviously grown and are getting more wary.


I hope to get to the cabin to try some perch fishing soon before it ices over. Problem is, my weekend visits always involve a work project or three of some sorts.

One project is a bench on the dock from By The Yard but I missed the fall sale so now it waits until spring. Next is a small poly yard shed down near the water so I can stash my gear w/o having to hike it up the hill every time.

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Congrats!

Fish with minnows or worms within a foot of the bottom in your deepest water (if you have decent DO down there) and you should find them. They're actually a very reliable species to find and catch. Minnows work the best.

I prefer to use a slip bobber rig for depth control and to keep them from swallowing the bait. Keep sliding your stopper line up the line towards you until the the float sits on its side due to the bsit lying on the bottom. Then pull the stopper line away from you six or twelve inches and you're set to go.

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I located a spot with exceptionally cool water this summer. While water temps never got exceptionally warm, I had 47°f so I am guessing this is a spring area. This coincides with a slushy star in the late season ice.

I don't think you'll have long to wait before you're ice fishing. Give or take a month I'd guess.

Better make that shed high off the water level, if this winter is a wet one, I don't know how high that water will be!

Yellow Perch like flats where they can root for annelids. (The small red worms that are found in muck.)

Maybe it is just me but it looks like eye balls looking back at me in the lower right 1/4 of the picture.

Congrats

I'm thinking of setting it up like the dock. Run the steel auger posts down and then frame a platform to set it on high and dry. Thinking one of those poly units with a steep roof pitch.