01-18-2013, 03:18 AM
RE "So my question to all is... what can we do as anglers to help decrease the population of perch?"
Why don't we do what the DWR itself recommends?
From the DWR's own recommendations for the management of Fish Lake.
Continue
to promote and encourage yellow perch fishing and harvest at Fish Lake.
I realize that this comes from the DWR's own study and management reccs, so some of you will automatically dismiss it out of hand, but the DWR wants us to go catch and harvest all the perch we legally want. It may have only a modest effect, but it can't hurt and it does seem that the perch are getting a hair bigger the past few years. That's what I do and I hate bucket biologists as much as anyone. Then when you have your perch, enjoy the "mediocre" (not!) splake and bow fishing and see if you can catch a mac or two while you are at it.
And for heavens sake take home only dead fish or fillets and leave the biology to the professionals!
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Why don't we do what the DWR itself recommends?
From the DWR's own recommendations for the management of Fish Lake.
Continue
to promote and encourage yellow perch fishing and harvest at Fish Lake.
I realize that this comes from the DWR's own study and management reccs, so some of you will automatically dismiss it out of hand, but the DWR wants us to go catch and harvest all the perch we legally want. It may have only a modest effect, but it can't hurt and it does seem that the perch are getting a hair bigger the past few years. That's what I do and I hate bucket biologists as much as anyone. Then when you have your perch, enjoy the "mediocre" (not!) splake and bow fishing and see if you can catch a mac or two while you are at it.
And for heavens sake take home only dead fish or fillets and leave the biology to the professionals!
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