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Are there any lakes out there in western MN that hold perch similar to the Dakotas? I've been looking at all the small lakes around Ortonville area and was wondering if anyone knows if some of these prairie lakes hold jumbos?

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Big Stone is your best bet right now. There are some bigger sloughs that can hold a year class or two of good perch, but the sloughs and shallow lakes in western MN just don't have the quality forage base (mainly shrimp) like the waters in the dakotas. Carp, drainage ditches, tile, and fathead minnows all work against healthy perch populations in my opinion.

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Big Stone will get better as the winter wears on as far as perch go...A lot of ppl are having success there now (me not so much)but theres 26 miles of lake to cover so the perch can be anywhere..i bought some freshwater shrimp to try there this wknd weather permiting anyway.. good luck if you go and lemme know how you do.

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drainage ditches and tile allow you to eat cheaper than otherwise. don't badmouth a farmer with your mouthfull

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drainage ditches and tile allow you to eat cheaper than otherwise. don't badmouth a farmer with your mouthfull

Nobody badmouthed a farmer. It's a fact that ditches promote migration of rough fish. they also promote sediment loading into the bodies of water they empty into. Neither of these are good if you want jumbo perch.

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And tile? Take it here-------->Outdoor_Discussion,_Clean-ups

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and tile?

I'm not blind to the benefits of tile. We have tile on our land. Where does the water go from the tile outlet? Into a ditch, river, slough, lake. If the slough or lake is a closed basin, now you've altered the natural rise and fall of the lake, which alters how/when the lake winter kills. If the outlet is in a drainage ditch, now your adding to the flow of water in the ditch. More flow equals more erosion. I'm done with this topic. If you don't think that drainage changes in MN haven't affected the ability of the bodies of water to produce jumbo perch I'm fine with that. Most people in MN don't really care if a slough is full of fathead minnows and rough fish vs. full of sago pond weed and fresh water shrimp. I don't mind when groups of farmers bring their $15K ice castles over to webster/waubay and spend a weekend buying gas, hotels, bait, beer, steaks, etc. and enjoying our jumbo perch fisheries in SD.

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