I think those are great growth metrics on your yp don't sell yourself short. Further you are developing science from which we are all benefitting with your unique fishery and forage base. Please keep us apprised of your experiences and great work thus far. I'd love some wr totals from your yp if you get the time for length and weight measurements.
Bill has inspired me to build some large traps to get some sizes and weights. We plan on this this project this summer. I just need to get a fish scale or digital mail scale for the weights. Length and girth will be no problem.
I was going to add walleye but with the few recruitment of perch fry I have been worried about pulling that trigger. I wonder about the shiner adults eating the perch eggs or fry.
My goals are the same as Bills perch pond but the only difference is trapping and pellet training our own perch. The problem with that is that we can not trap any young perch in the minnow traps. We have tried many different ways, depths and traps will little luck trapping young perch. This is why my thoughts are that the shiners are culling our young perch for us with some recruitment making it through the rath of the shiners.
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