11-27-2020, 11:54 PM
(11-27-2020, 11:36 PM)kentofnsl Wrote: In the 50s and 60s (yes, I'm getting old), Strawberry (if my memory serves me well) and Scofield (for sure) were full of perch.You are keewrecked. I was invited on a fish scoop expedition when Strawberry was poisoned in September 1961. The rotenone brought all the dead fish to the surface but did not render them inedible for human consumption. The surface was a conglomerate of several species...including yellow perch.
No personal experience with Scofield but I had heard there were also perch in there before their first treatment.
One other Utah water that formerly had perch was Gunnison reservoir...on the San Pitch River. It was not very big and fairly shallow, but it had some big perch, largemouths and catfish. Today it is just a seasonal breeding pond for carp...being drawn down to nothing every year by the water users.
I suspect there have been quite a few wet spots around the state that have had perch for a greater or lesser amount of time.