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Yeah probabally never good when the bait shop owner tells ya to fish somewhere else!
Man those perch have some fat stomachs. Willing to bet those bellies are full of small gobies. All of the perch i have been catching in the bays have had them in it.
Im going to guess more like big females developing eggs perhaps