11-24-2012, 06:51 PM
[cool][#0000ff]It would seem that history is repeating itself. Those who remember the old days of Doug Miller perch parties on Pineview will recall that there were plenty of perch for all...as long as you didn't care about size.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]The tiger muskie plantings were intended to reduce perch numbers to help increase the average size. And as long as there were lots of tigers they did a good job. Ice fishing for perch...and crappies...became a good thing...with plenty of decent sized fish of both species.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Over the past several years the tiger muskie production and plantings have declined. Guess what? The perch population exploded again and we gots nothin' but dinks again. And they are not all just young of the year. I kept and filleted a few for bait yesterday and there were perch under six inches ready to spawn...of both genders. They are stunted.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I too am ready to give up on Pineview. This makes the third year in a row that my fall trips have produced nothing but small fish. Before that I got plenty of footlong perch and crappies up to 15 inches. I would like to think that my angling skills have not gotten that much worse during that time.[/#0000ff]
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ly predict that this winter will be as bad or worse than last ice fishing season on Pineview. There were some isolated good catches but the vast majority of iceaholics were mostly disappointed in what they brought through the holes.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]The tiger muskie plantings were intended to reduce perch numbers to help increase the average size. And as long as there were lots of tigers they did a good job. Ice fishing for perch...and crappies...became a good thing...with plenty of decent sized fish of both species.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Over the past several years the tiger muskie production and plantings have declined. Guess what? The perch population exploded again and we gots nothin' but dinks again. And they are not all just young of the year. I kept and filleted a few for bait yesterday and there were perch under six inches ready to spawn...of both genders. They are stunted.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I too am ready to give up on Pineview. This makes the third year in a row that my fall trips have produced nothing but small fish. Before that I got plenty of footlong perch and crappies up to 15 inches. I would like to think that my angling skills have not gotten that much worse during that time.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I
ly predict that this winter will be as bad or worse than last ice fishing season on Pineview. There were some isolated good catches but the vast majority of iceaholics were mostly disappointed in what they brought through the holes.[/#0000ff][signature]