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The walleye will prey heavily on the YP since they frequent the same habitat. WE and YP go together like peanut butter and jelly. Do not depend on the WE to eat very many small bass. You will do more good for the current fish community balance to actively remove SMB. You are visually getting perch eggs & spawns, but too many smallies are hurting the recruitment. Larger perch may also be eating a few small perch. If you want some WE, I would first get the YP population back to the very common or abundant status then add a few WE. Keep in mind that each SMB can easily eat 225-260 forage fish per year which in your case is probably mostly small 2"-4" perch.

I wouldn't stock any adult perch until you first remove a significant number of SMB maybe 8-15/ac.