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Originally Posted by SNAPFisher
Hey ROA, thanks for speaking up. What do you think about using those runt pond perch as prey species for predators in other lakes?
2nd, even other forage species, non-game fish, re-establishment? E.g. spot tail shiners.
Not random dumping but selective into lakes that could use a prey species bump up and have the food, forage and environment needed.
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We have a pond that is full of stunted pan fish and bass we used to net and put into the lake. The inbred pond fish are easy pray and act stupidly, nature’s way of cleaning the gene pool I guess. That went on for years and back then we never got a quality fishery. In 2006 we killed the lake and started over now with the genetic strain we have put into the lake we don’t risk interbreeding the bass with the ones from the pond. The resulting hybrid bass interbreeding with our lake’s Florida strain are known as F1’s (if I remember) and do not posses the genetics to grow big. A juiced up lake is hard enough to maintain as it is so forget about putting in low caloric and lipid fish that could ruin genetics when things like trout will grow bass bigger and have no chance of hybridization with the residents.
There is millions of dollars spent and many people that have dedicated thier lives with passion to grow 200” whitetails and double digit bass. The amount of work and progress done privately would blow your mind. Check out things like the sharelunker program. There is one fish in particular that has its DNA traced back two 2 or 3 generations of fish from the program. We use DNA testing as well in our lake and have found that we need to keep introducing quality fish over the years to keep the size up.
Anyways I am done arguing with Alberta’s socialist, fish tax, trout welfare idiots.
I’ll add one more thing because I am nice. If you guys want to do something fun and cool perch are one of the easiest fish to age. A quick YouTube search for perch age will show you how. The oldest perch I have ever found was up here, a 12 year old female and was only 11.25”. Also the youngest 12” perch I have found was only 5 years old. The lakes i fish up here the perch size for age follows the shrimp population fairly closely. Have fun.