Through drought last summer I finally made it to the perch pond this last weekend. Caught 11 nice sized keeper perch and many differing sizes of yp as well. The pumpkinseed population has blown up and I now have numerous(too many) of them instead of the green sunfish. Decent tradeoff. LMB have spawned which I'm not sure I wanted, but they are yet to show any significant predation on either of the 2 desired species in the yp and pumpkins. I need them to do more work as it stands now with the over abundant pumpkins and likely yp. I think the weed edge saves a lot of the new recruitment. Pleased to see the size of the bigger ones. One more year and I could be dealing with some true trophies in a pond here in Southern IA. Thanks for your help pond boss forums.