YP also should spawn and eggs hatch okay using old cattail stems as spawning strucure. The difficulty comes in getting the small fusiform shaped young perch to live long enough to get to 8" long which can take 2-3 yrs (see additional post below). In that time young LMB love to eat them, even better than eating BG. A strong small LMB population, which is usually common in most ponds, 'hammer the heck out' of young YP, often to the point of extinction of the 1&2 yr old YP.
YP normally tolerate catch and release well providing they are not bleeding or are not misshandled.
Last edited by Bill Cody; 09/10/10 09:04 AM.
