Why fish for yellow perch?
It would be tough to find a fish as tasty as yellow perch that is so easy to catch. It doesn’t matter how old you are, how much fishing experience you’ve had or what time of year it is. In a day you will probably catch several of these small pan fish (averaging seven inches), and possibly a five-gallon bucket full. Each angler can keep 50! Yellow perch numbers need to be reduced. By taking home a lot, you could help improve perch growth rates. You might also be doing other fish populations a favor. Increased abundance of perch has been detrimental to rainbow and lake trout populations. Yellow perch have reduced the food supply for lake trout by preying on young Utah chubs. With a scarcity of Utah chubs, lake trout have turned to eating primarily rainbow trout. Consequently, survival of rainbow trout has declined. How to catch them It is important to remember that yellow perch are closely associated with aquatic vegetation. Beds of aquatic weeds surround the entire lake. This is especia
