Bill's comments really mirror our experience. We had many yellow perch initially and I haven't seen one in the last couple of years. I should have added that it seems like a walleye must be 14-15 inches just to survive predation. I caught an 18-inch walleye this fall and even it was skinny. Again, keep in mind that most people want walleyes to eat. We don't, we just want to give people an opportunity to say that they caught a walleye so it is worth our time to keep adding 15-inch walleyes.
If we can feed train yellow perch, we should be able to do the same with walleyes. Has anyone tried it?
I have thought of adding yellow perch every winter, just because they spawn very early and would provide very early forage. We also have white suchers which spawn but I think these young get eaten by everything else very quickly.
