Latest issue of Wisconsin Outdoor News arrived yesterday. There's a big article on the Perch decline on Green Bay and Lake Michigan. According to the article, the catch rate on Green Bay and Lake Michigan fall 60% and 70% respectively from 2007 to 2008.

Causes are listed as poor spwaning rates, the impact of fish eaters such as the double breastes cormorants, white pelicans and preditor fish.

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Except for bears. Bears kill you.