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And you thought Simcoe had jumbos, anyone go ice fishing this year?
Ice fisherman ties Nevada's yellow perch record: 'I thought it was a trout'
An ice fisherman in Nevada has officially tied the state record for yellow perch, snagging a 13.5-inch specimen weighing 1 pound, 8 ounces, the Nevada Department of Wildlife (NDOW) confirmed.
John Shorter III reeled in the yellow perch at Elko County’s Wild Horse Reservoir on Feb. 16 — a whole 32 years after the original record set by Warren Todd Goodale at Dufurrena Pond in 1987.
“He’s had the record since 1987, so he’s had quite a run,” Shorter told NDOW.
Shorter added that he and a friend actually caught multiple fish – including 56 other perch – before hooking the “big” one, which he initially believed to be a trout because of how it felt on the line.
"I thought it was a trout because it was putting up way more of a fight than the perch had put up. We put it on the ice, and I said, ‘We’ve got to get this thing measured,’” he said.
A conservation expert with NDOW also called the catch encouraging, considering drought and larger predators have made ice-fishing trips less fruitful in recent years.
“This is the first year in probably six years, maybe even seven, that people were actually catching a lot of keeper size perch through the ice,” Joe Doucette said. “In fact, last year I couldn’t remember any perch being caught at all, so it’s very exciting.
https://www.foxnews.com/great-outdo...-yellow-perch-record-i-thought-it-was-a-trout
And you thought Simcoe had jumbos, anyone go ice fishing this year?
Ice fisherman ties Nevada's yellow perch record: 'I thought it was a trout'
An ice fisherman in Nevada has officially tied the state record for yellow perch, snagging a 13.5-inch specimen weighing 1 pound, 8 ounces, the Nevada Department of Wildlife (NDOW) confirmed.
John Shorter III reeled in the yellow perch at Elko County’s Wild Horse Reservoir on Feb. 16 — a whole 32 years after the original record set by Warren Todd Goodale at Dufurrena Pond in 1987.
“He’s had the record since 1987, so he’s had quite a run,” Shorter told NDOW.
Shorter added that he and a friend actually caught multiple fish – including 56 other perch – before hooking the “big” one, which he initially believed to be a trout because of how it felt on the line.
"I thought it was a trout because it was putting up way more of a fight than the perch had put up. We put it on the ice, and I said, ‘We’ve got to get this thing measured,’” he said.
A conservation expert with NDOW also called the catch encouraging, considering drought and larger predators have made ice-fishing trips less fruitful in recent years.
“This is the first year in probably six years, maybe even seven, that people were actually catching a lot of keeper size perch through the ice,” Joe Doucette said. “In fact, last year I couldn’t remember any perch being caught at all, so it’s very exciting.
https://www.foxnews.com/great-outdo...-yellow-perch-record-i-thought-it-was-a-trout
