MyFishFinder.com Just like iceshanty but warmer
Maybe I'm just imagining it, but I see differences in the perch in Lake George vs Saratoga. To me the Saratoga perch have bigger mouths. Maybe its a function of what they have evolved to eat. The Lake George perch really hammer the scuds in the grass, or tiny perch. Saratoga doesn't have the grass beds and scud supply that Lake George does, and I know they eat a lot of little bluegills and sunfish. Your question on Champlain is interesting. Back 45 years ago when I fished it the perch were pretty small, but even the little ones would hit the mixed bait tipups we were using for walleyes and saugers, back when Champlain had saugers. I fished the south end around Putnam, Dresden, etc., where the water is a little cloudy. What part of the lake did you take that chunky perch from.
more like different forage, leading to different growth rates. Alewives are very easy for perch to gorge on, thats why champ's perch are getting so much bigger on average that the past, thats why the finger lakes, lake ontario and small alewive lakes often have the very biggest perch around.
Champlain seems like an ice fishing staple in NY and VT-always has been. Just curious (and maybe I’m missing it) but I don’t see a long bs thread for champ like the other big lakes in NY. Why is this?