In terms of the latter suggestion, it's tricky to find a good balance. Mink Lake (20 mins from Hasse) has a ton of stunted perch as well and more pike than Hasse (though still not a ton). It seems they still don't make a dent in the population and 99% of the perch remain tiny with the odd keeper swimming around.
A lake like Hasse isn't large enough to support huge numbers of larger perch in any case. If more pike were introduced to trim them down and, in a few years, more of the stunts got up to reasonable size due to a substantially reduced population, the lake might be easily fished out (especially considering its popularity and proximity to the city).
As much as I love perch, I think that lake would offer more opportunity for better fish if it went back to being the trout only lake it was in the past.
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