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Title: Male to female ratio
Post by: treeplucker on Feb 02, 2020, 02:36 PM

Out yesterday  5 nice perch  usually all female  but today 3 males and they bit fast and hard no nibbling ??????

Title: Re: Male to female ratio
Post by: bigstorm on Feb 03, 2020, 12:10 PM

A few years ago, I was with a group fishing in North Dakota. We ended the day with 40 perch and while cleaning them there were only 2 that were males

Title: Re: Male to female ratio
Post by: badger132 on Mar 07, 2020, 04:40 PM

They seem to school by size and sex most of the winter. I thought there were just few males, than had a day with 15 males/2 females

 :tipup:

Title: Re: Male to female ratio
Post by: gofish on Mar 07, 2020, 06:54 PM

I fillet 181 perch only 7 were males

Title: Re: Male to female ratio
Post by: slipperybob on Nov 22, 2020, 07:53 PM

With perch, I seem to catch more females too. 

Title: Re: Male to female ratio
Post by: river_scum on Jan 10, 2021, 06:32 AM

Quote from: gofish on Mar 07, 2020, 06:54 PM

I fillet 181 perch only 7 were males

that's a lot of eggs to fry there :P