goghergunner, you are a rarity among Minnesota people for admitting that a yellow perch is actually eatable. Very strange that most of you guys over the state line would rather have a northern pike than a yellow perch on the menu. There was a time when anybody with a row boat could row 50 yards off shore in the Bay of Green Bay and catch a bucket full of yellow perch in short order. Not anymore. The walleyes have taken over and the zebra mussels have cleaned up the water so much that the weed growth is much deeper than it use to be, so what perch that do spawn are way off shore now. The invasive gobies brought in with ocean going shipping dumping their ballast tanks, eat everything that hatches, so our yellow perch are doomed. Eating a walleye isn't bad, but given the choice make mine a perch plate.
Bill, why hasn't Lake Erie suffered the same invasive species blight that the Bay of Green Bay and Lake Michigan has?
Last edited by Windfall; 05/13/19.
