02-10-2016, 02:37 PM
When perch are not over populated and have room too roam they grow about 2"+/- a year, that's why we have cycle's in the lake's everywhere...... all those 4" from 3 and 4 year's ago are the age class you are catching, there are not many dinks now cause they all get eat'n as quick as they are born.... another reason for cycle's, there is no stable food source for warm water specie fish in Idaho.... no smelt, no minnows persay, shad, shiners, all those prolific bait fish.... anyway enjoy for a year or two than they will be gone again and mostly dinks, but the crappie are on the up swing as well in about a year or two they will be great again, than we will have 200 boat's out there all summer long every day..... I may go camp down at CJ this weekend for a few days... Thanks for the repot's..... I was out there and trolling for trout is good, orange floating rapala with a 1/4oz weight about 2' in front of that with a swivel, water temp was about 42 degree's, the perch should be thinking about spawning pretty quick, probably already have...
Matt
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