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Originally Posted by Sundancefisher
Can’t say for certain but it you consider 3 years of predation and 3 years of old age mortality that leaves 3 year classes that would make up the main, current catchable perch population.
Combined both mortality causes can explain a sharp decrease. As the next 3 year classes reach old age, that will be telling on perch size and catch rates.
If predation is not the cause and just a blip in the perch population we should see a turn back to the old over population days.
That being said...4 years ago there were schools of young of the year perch in the shallows everywhere.
This year there were large schools of lake chub minnows. Previously perch had decimated the lake chub and fathead minnow populations in the lake.
So far all indications point to a positive improvement to the trout fishery here.
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I had often thought this would work at Strubel Lake. It use to be a very nice Rainbow Trout lake with good size. Now it is seldom fished in the summer months as the fish are stunted and it is full of perch. I thought a couple of years of Brown, Brook or Tiger Trout stocking would turn things around. It is a natural spring fed lake that requires no aerators.
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