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Pineview Perch
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[#0000FF][cool] Your observation is valid. Not sure how long you have lived and fished in the area but there is a "history" on Pineview. In the "olden days" there were NO perch in that lake. Also no smallmouth. The big two were lots of nice largemouths and plenty of slab crappies. Some excellent bluegills too. And even some planted rainbows. But they got serious anchor worm problems by late summer every year in the warm water. DWR finally realized that not all lakes in Utah were prime trout waters.

"Somehow" perch made it into Pineview and they exploded. The lake was choked with swarms of the things and they stunted badly...even smaller than those we catch today.

Two things helped bring the perch numbers down a bit. One was the Doug Miller perch derbies. The second was the heavy planting of tiger muskies. Within a couple of years after the tigers moved in the numbers of perch noticeably declined and the sizes began to increase. Up until about 3 years ago it was common to have some footlongs in your ice hauls.

When some new nasty fish diseases began showing up in the areas from which Utah DWR was buying tiger muskie fry there was no longer a safe source for planting the predators. And the Utah propagation project for TMs has been plagued by a variety of problems. Net result: fewer muskies and more perch...and smaller perch.

With the sheer numbers of the stunting little perchies it is highly unlikely that even a greater harvest by anglers will not dent the population enough to make a significant difference. Of course it helps. But being able to plant a lot more tiger muskies in the lake would be a better year-round control system for the perch.
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Pineview Perch - by Jmaze - 01-28-2013, 02:43 AM
Re: [Jmaze] Pineview Perch - by wiperhunter2 - 01-28-2013, 11:46 PM
Re: [wiperhunter2] Pineview Perch - by Jmaze - 01-29-2013, 03:37 PM
Re: [Jmaze] Pineview Perch - by RockyRaab - 01-29-2013, 04:07 PM
Re: [RockyRaab] Pineview Perch - by TubeDude - 01-29-2013, 04:42 PM
Re: [TubeDude] Pineview Perch - by RockyRaab - 01-29-2013, 05:07 PM
Re: [RockyRaab] Pineview Perch - by Fishrmn - 01-29-2013, 05:14 PM
Re: [Fishrmn] Pineview Perch - by wiperhunter2 - 01-29-2013, 09:00 PM
Re: [wiperhunter2] Pineview Perch - by Fishrmn - 01-29-2013, 09:18 PM
Re: [Fishrmn] Pineview Perch - by kentofnsl - 01-29-2013, 09:23 PM
Re: [kentofnsl] Pineview Perch - by Fishrmn - 01-29-2013, 09:36 PM
Re: [Fishrmn] Pineview Perch - by kentofnsl - 01-30-2013, 04:04 PM
Re: [kentofnsl] Pineview Perch - by Fishrmn - 01-30-2013, 04:56 PM
Re: [RockyRaab] Pineview Perch - by Joe_Dizzy - 01-30-2013, 08:18 PM

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