I fished Mill Meadow for the first time last Thursday 7/29 with a few friends. We fished from from the shore from about 2pm to 630pm and all we could catch was Perch. We tried several different types of tackle and Perch was the only thing biting. I talked to one of the locals from that area and he told me that the state was going to poison that water due to the over balance of Perch.
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Seems like that would be a futile effort with Johnson and Fish Lake just upstream clear full of them.
It's also one of the few places one can catch perch big enough (barely) to fillet. There was quite a bit of pressure this year through the ice for perch. Why would the State want to do away with this?
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First off you can't trust everything you hear from other fisherman. Second I thought the same thing about Johnson and fish Lake. So I'm not 100% sure just passing on a story that I heard. Here is a picture of one of the perch I caught.
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Hopefully that wasn't representative of what you caught there. We went out in the boat about a month ago. 3 of us got about 80 and kept about half of them. (Sure are tasty!)
I hope it ain't true. Maybe Drew could chime in on this one.
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They wont poison it. The DWR doesnt waste funds on Rotenone very much anymore. Its super expensive and not always 100 %... Plus Perch are not considered rough fish so they wouldnt do it for that. We need a lot more harvest there. I took about 200 this year there...
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I don't think so either.
I know there's bigger and more glamorous species around, but I can't keep myself from loading up on the little buggers a few times a year. And I think we're just the guys to do the thinning out. [
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why dont they introduce tiger muskies? i dont know the waters your talking about but that would help with the overpopulation, (if it really is overpopulated). just thought i would ask.
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They're allready in there.
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oh good deal. like i said i dont know the waters. i guess it wouldve been more appropriate for me to ask if they were in there than to assume that they werent.
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Mill Meadow is a very small lake and probably not a good candidate for a deliberate tiger musky stocking. If there's a few running around in there, then good deal. They can't reproduce and goof things up and they'll help the balance some.
As far as the perch go, they're quite a bit bigger than the Fish Lake models and not as big as the Yuba residents. You can catch them as fast as you can get a jig to the bottom and actually have a decent batch to filet. So I say if it ain't broke...
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I was down on MIll Meadow last weekend. I was rigged with a bubble and two worm hooks on a 2 foot leader (one hook on the end and the other tyed in about half way up with a palomar knot. I would cast out and wait about the count of 5. One would be biting by then and I would set the hook. If I was patient and waited another count of 5 and jerked again, I generally would come back with doubles most every time. I'm not a big perch eater (too much work to filet those little guys) and I did not need any bait so they all went back. The wife was waiting in the car so the fun lasted only an hour or so.
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