02-02-2005, 10:32 AM
We were there a few days ago and saw the same thing. The rules at Deer creek are there because perch will not survive if you bring them up from deep water in the winter, their swim bladders come out in their mouth. Rockport has the same problem with their perch and it is possible people don't know about it or like some of you said, they just don't care. If you bring the fish up slow enough they can be released Ok. Before we left a few days ago we went to a hole that a guy had just left, we started catching fish right away but then we noticed fish coming up around the hole. We took a closer look and noticed 7 or 8 lying under the ice. The guy that was fishing the spot before we came over was from Wyoming and was using a 4 inch ice auger. That was the first time I had seen a hole that small and the reason I know where he was from was, I talked to him in the parking lot before we got on the ice that morning. WH2
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