Joe,

Join the club. I'm not sure my perch are feeding at all either. But it's hard to tell as they come up so fast anyway and my main pond is dyed pretty heavily with Aquashade.

My main pond that has my biggest perch up to 14 inches or more was about 87 F. on the surface yesterday and 83 F. on the bottom at 11 feet! I'm only running my compressors from about midnight to 5 or 6 A.M. now on the ponds that have yellow perch. Hopefully this will keep warming down a little but replenish oxygen in the deep water. I may end up running well water into my smaller holding pond to drop temps a little.

My smaller holding pond where I have mostly male perch and female bluegill was about 89 on the surface but dropped to about 80 near the bottom at 8 feet. This pond albeit smaller at only 1/10th acre has very steep sides with a low surface area vs. the large .62 acre pond I referred to in the previous paragraph.

I must say getting into the water for swimming isn't a shock this year!

These temps are stressful on the perch especially the big ones. I did a have a medium size floater in the holding pond show up a couple of days ago.

If pigs could fly bacon would be harder to come by and there would be a lot of damaged trees.