esshup has the information correct that he posted back on the previous page: "it gets fertilized as the female lays it." In optimum spawning, several to a dozen males follow the female and spray milt near the ribbon of eggs as it is released. Reports indicate most spawning activity for perch occurs in dusk, night, and dawn. Subscribe to PBoss magazine where I plan to have 6 articles on growing yellow perch in ponds. Part2 deals with spawning through late fry stage and it is almost done except for a few pictures. Hopefully I can complete all of them in 2016.
Last edited by Bill Cody; 03/28/1608:53 AM.
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