Originally Posted by Bill Cody
Dandy yellow perch that your visitor caught. Enjoy those yellow perch, however they may become few and far between. With bass commonly present they will eat lots of the young YP even to the point of eating more YP than sunfish due mainly to the slender versus wide body shape of sunfishes. To keep YP present long term in the pond you may have to periodically stock several larger 6" to 8"+ perch. Bass love to eat easy to catch yellow perch.

Yep, that's the situation we have now. YP are few and far between. Same goes for the WE. I stocked a few more WE 6 to 8 a year or two ago but I suspect only a couple survived. We caught a 16 this year so I know at least one made it past the LMB gauntlet. We really need to harvest some bass. It takes a big perch to avoid the mouth gap of a 20 inch LMB.

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