West Twin Hancock Co.

[dragscreamer]

Hammered big perch last winter. This year can't hardly mark a fish? Anyone else had any luck?

[whip2]

There were a lot of folks fishing it a bunch this past Spring & Summer. I question if they overfished it???

[dragscreamer]

I have a conspiracy theory I'll share. There sure are a lot of various sized perch in Rice this year and I know damn well almost all them adult fish they had stoked initially got caught last winter. They've gotta get those fish from somewhere? Unfortunately they don't hatch from eggs at 12in. I think they netted all the perch from West Twin and took them to Rice. Just a Thought?

[Oldbear]

Don't ya know your not suppose to mention that lake.

[dragscreamer]

Well from results this winter it isn't worth mentioning Dead Sea? It's Soooo!! Frustrating to know there are fish somewhere and they just vanished . GRRRRR!!👹

[cbducks78]

I would like to make a suggestion to the DNR that they start stocking all the lakes with 10" perch annually, just as they do with trout.  Only with perch, they tend to thrive in a lake rather than die come June.   A lot of lakes that have recently been renovated (and a big thank you for the state doing that) are stocked with 7-10" walleyes annually, sometimes bi-annually in order to keep up with fishing pressure.  I'm sure the goal is for self sustaining, natural reproduction, unfortunately the lakes are relatively small with high fishing pressure. 

Raise my license fee if you like, but treat these lakes like put and take stocking program, I'll bet you get a boost in fishermen in general. 

Just my opinion........