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We had a old pond dug out and enlarged back in October. Didn’t stock anything till 3/26/20. We stocked 3lbs of shiners,3lbs of minnows,40 5-7” yellow perch,10 hybrid stripers,50 red ears,and 2 grass carp. On 4/4/20 I found what appears to be perch eggs. I was really surprised because the perch looked to be on the smaller side. But I’m excited if they did actually spawn that soon after stocking.
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Those are perch eggs in a ribbon on the rocks.
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To me it's no surprise that some of your perch are females. This past winter I ice fished a local lake that has a gross overpopulation of YP. Of the approximately 60 perch I brought home and cleaned, every one was laden with eggs. They ranged from very small-5" long, to moderately small-7". That's a lot of puny perch fillets; oh but they're tasty in tacos.
Yes, it would be wonderful if the females were 8" and up, but isn't necessarily so.
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I just finished helping sort several thousand perch and the owner is marketing the smaller, 3-4" size because of the number of fish and still taking the genetics home. We had these in a 6'Wx 2'Dx 20'L. On morning 2 when we came back with next load the overflow from this tank was completely plugged with ribbons, like a full 5gal bucket worth. 3/8"-1/2" wide ribbons.. cute if nothing else. Seeing this I think I have underestimated the YP as a survivalist.
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