01-17-2013, 08:36 PM
[quote The_Red_Leaker]
It appears from the pics that the splake may not be 18-24" but are of healthy size and the "stunted perch" averaged between 8.5 to 10" with some being over 11". .[/quote]
I can't see the pics, so I don't know how the fish "appear" or how you come to your size estimates. However, I do know that the average size perch in Fish Lake is just 4-6 inches long and the mean is just 7 inches long and very few are gillnetted over 10 inches. I also know that I wouldn't consider a perch a jumbo unless it was over 14 inches long. Fish lake perch are hardly quality fish...
30 or so years ago, my father gillnetted a few "jumbo" perch from Fish Lake and had them mounted...they were around 3 pound perch. Perch of that size have not been seen for a long time. The perch in Fish Lake have stunted....their growth rates are severely diminished because of their numbers. That is a fact. About the same time those perch were netted, a near world-record splake was also netted....again, splake of that size haven't been seen since.
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It appears from the pics that the splake may not be 18-24" but are of healthy size and the "stunted perch" averaged between 8.5 to 10" with some being over 11". .[/quote]
I can't see the pics, so I don't know how the fish "appear" or how you come to your size estimates. However, I do know that the average size perch in Fish Lake is just 4-6 inches long and the mean is just 7 inches long and very few are gillnetted over 10 inches. I also know that I wouldn't consider a perch a jumbo unless it was over 14 inches long. Fish lake perch are hardly quality fish...
30 or so years ago, my father gillnetted a few "jumbo" perch from Fish Lake and had them mounted...they were around 3 pound perch. Perch of that size have not been seen for a long time. The perch in Fish Lake have stunted....their growth rates are severely diminished because of their numbers. That is a fact. About the same time those perch were netted, a near world-record splake was also netted....again, splake of that size haven't been seen since.
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