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With our yellow perch I have learned that the shiners are keeping just about all our perch fry from growing up. After four years we are at 5-1 still of young 4-5" perch to our original stockers that are in the 11-13" size. Shiner minnows got a year head start on the perch spawning. We can catch 6-7" shiners on a hook and worm.

I do not know what is really limiting the young perch but I do know after 4 years I can not catch any perch minnows in the minnow traps.

We do remove all the ribbons we can and find that the north west side of the pond gets more ribbons than any other side of the pond.

Cheers Don.