Starvation hard deck report

[Springbuck1]

The winter of 2013 was about the last time any of us really had good perch fishing in Starvation.  There were reports in early 2014...as the ice came off the lake...of large numbers of dead perch washing up all around the lake.  

 Even so, unless ALL the perch died somehow, and even given some of the terrible water years, I would have thought a population recovery (if not a size recovery) would have been well under way.   I wonder why not? 

Perch are prolific.  It took only a 3-4 years after PV perch crashed for a bunch of 10.5" fish to show up all of a sudden one year, and by the next year we were back to standard, even classic PV perch.  In the meantime, while the perch were gone, the crappie started growing, but topped out about 10".