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I don't really get the logic. If you take that same fish home in the summer, it won't be full of eggs, but it still won't be breeding the next spring.
My brother owns a small pond and somehow perch made their way in there. Completely overpopulated. We fear they are preventing all the other fish from ever spawning again. No matter the size we catch out of there, they are not going back in. On public waters the limit is 20 here in MN. I never heard of anybody saying put them back for future. Yet every year people seem to be clearing them out of the lakes. It is a great fish that tastes awesome especially in winter.I'd be more worried about walley and few other species, but perch....yeah, if you catch them, eat them.
Bitter lake from 2010 to about 2014 got absolutely destroyed, both on ice and open water. Almost every day there were at least 1,000 people out there with close to 5,000 on weekends. The lake used to be a perch factory with 14"+ fish being fairly common, and some really nice walleyes mixed in. Now it's just a shell of its former glory.
No, they are being caught in the cuts leading to the Saginaw Bay. The water may be 6-8 foot, at best. And, I'm not squeezing them out either.
I guess I'm not sure what you are saying. Perch, like all other species, spawn when the water reaches "their" perfect temp. Usually, as the water warms in spring. Shouldn't the water reach their optimal temp as it cools in the fall? I guess what I'm saying is both the water temp and the photoperiod have to be the same, twice a year! Its not like the temp is going to be 65 one day and the next drop to 40! Is it possible that some perch spawn in the spring and others in the fall?
A friend of mine will fry the perch eggs along with the fillets.
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