02-05-2012, 04:10 PM
There's some open water out there at Bunny but where we were fishing it was a good solid 10" of ice.
We caught a pretty good bucket of 'em, so there was definitely some sort of selection going on to have every one of them be female.
Lots of eggs, so I guess they're spring spawners. No idea how to tell perch gender from the outside. [blush]
Seems to me with the little dink perch old enough to spawn that maybe they're stunted? Apparently they reach maturity 2-3 years old so having 5" spawners seems a bit small. Dunno tho...[
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We caught a pretty good bucket of 'em, so there was definitely some sort of selection going on to have every one of them be female.
Lots of eggs, so I guess they're spring spawners. No idea how to tell perch gender from the outside. [blush]
Seems to me with the little dink perch old enough to spawn that maybe they're stunted? Apparently they reach maturity 2-3 years old so having 5" spawners seems a bit small. Dunno tho...[
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