The funny thing SG about your concern about them not making it, is perch once introduced into nonnative waters, are typically so successful they become a nuisance species and are impossible to get rid one. Some pristine brook trout waters in the northeast have been forever ruined by the unlawful planting of yellow perch.
Got a couple of yellow perch in to mount from Moosehead Lake, Maine that was once known as a big brook trout mecca.
A local lake was rotenoned to get rid of carp and start over. Guess what species survived?
Bullheads???
Probably but I was referring to the yellow perch. Produced some dandy yellow perch a few years later. Not sure about now.
The carp are back because the INDNR failed to treat far enough upstream. Hopefully a good bass population will keep them under control.
Before it was killed off it was nothing to catch 6 or 8 ten to fifteen pound carp a day on "wheatie balls" with vannilla extract added. A blast on ultralight tackle!
Last edited by Cecil Baird1; 03/18/1610:20 AM.
If pigs could fly bacon would be harder to come by and there would be a lot of damaged trees.
