Pond Boss Forums STOCKING A NEW POND Types of fish to choose yellow perch

Bill,
Got an interesting story for you. Just 15 miles from my home base just south of the Red River, 75 miles north of Dallas, sits 570 acre Lake Kiowa. I electrofished the lake in 1985, the first time. I found fish never seen before in these parts. Yellow perch. To this day, I still find them in samples of this lake. Lake Kiowa has depths to 25 feet, is windswept in the summer, shallow coves. But, a remnant population of yellow perch exists here. They were stocked by a landowner in 1976, along with walleye and a species of pike. I have never seen these two fish. So, whatever the reasons, there are a few yellow perch in Lake Kiowa, in north Texas. I have never heard a tale of a single one being caught by fishermen. But, in Texas, a typical Lake Kiowa fisherman probably wouldn't know the difference between yellow perch and drum.