ML :

Thanks for the update. I started as a perch jerker when I was to small to hold up a small cane pole. I still use a small cane pole and crickets mostly when I jerk perch. I hope I have learned a little about ponds and fish since that time. In the process of learning about the perch (BG ,RES, GSF and the many crosses) I encountered researchers stating that one of the reasons for the data being all over the lot is the suspected shortage of pure GSF. For example one Texas study showed that HBG (BG x GSF) were only 66% male where several other studies show the % at 97% male (a big difference for stocking purposes). The difference may be that the GSF stock were not pure thus skewed results. I thought you put GG from the hatchery in the kids pond.

One thing is sure -- the things that make a kid smile are never a skewed result. Time to get your worm bucket or plot or cricket cage (I like crickets) going , spring is almost here!! \:\)