12-29-2016, 03:32 PM
[#0000FF]Perch can and do live in moving water. But they are more likely to migrate downstream than upstream. Especially if they have to climb over a dam to get into an upstream lake.
Lots of cases of downstream migration of perch in Utah. Deer Creek to Utah Lake, Pineview to Willard, etc.
Yuba did indeed produce fantastic perch fishing during a couple of past cycles. But that was when water levels remained high enough for good perch spawning and they were able to produce enough young to feed all the predators...and themselves. Right now Yuba is too low and the predator-prey situation is out of whack...with all the pike. And the proliferation of carp does not help either.
Leave the management of Paiute to DWR. Putting perch or walleye in a lake just because they might do well is never a satisfactory reason for doing so. If the lake is being managed as a trout fishery then perch would consume a lot of the food needed for healthy trout.
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Lots of cases of downstream migration of perch in Utah. Deer Creek to Utah Lake, Pineview to Willard, etc.
Yuba did indeed produce fantastic perch fishing during a couple of past cycles. But that was when water levels remained high enough for good perch spawning and they were able to produce enough young to feed all the predators...and themselves. Right now Yuba is too low and the predator-prey situation is out of whack...with all the pike. And the proliferation of carp does not help either.
Leave the management of Paiute to DWR. Putting perch or walleye in a lake just because they might do well is never a satisfactory reason for doing so. If the lake is being managed as a trout fishery then perch would consume a lot of the food needed for healthy trout.
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