Getting adult wild untrained YP to eat pellets will be a real challenge. It might be possible. I think it might even be harder than pellet training wild older bass. I have never accomplished pellet training wild, non-fish farm perch. Here is the "rub". Perch are very bottom oriented fish compared to bass that usually inhabit mid-water and will instinctively feed at the surface. Not yellow perch. So one has to overcome the adult strong habit of staying close to the bottom especially if you are using floating pellets. If you use sinking pellets how do we know the perch are eating them??? Pellet training small fingerling or large fry perch would be a much easier and more successful project.
If anyone can consistently pellet train wild adult perch I would really like to hear about the method. I always buy my pellet trained perch from a perch farmer that grows YP that have been domesticated since 1981. These fish and their offspring now train quickly at high percentages to eat pellets.
Last edited by Bill Cody; 01/11/17 01:14 PM.
