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9" perch are not "jumbo perch"


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Would people please stop saying that 9 and 10 inch perch are "jumbos". This is really irritating to me. It's like the people who keep 12 inch walleye's and their excuse is, "It's just like a nice perch".

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Here! Here!. 9inches is not a jumbo, you can find that size in many metro waters.

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Jumbo perch= over a foot long. 9 inchers are good enough to eat though.
12 inch walleye= Cigar! throw it back.

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I glad someone brought it up.I dont want to get away from the post but I hate seeing people keep 12 in walleye.Down here in the cities the DNR has done a great job of stocking the lakes but you go out and see people with 4-6 12 inch walleye on the ice and listen to them bi*** about there not being any larger eyes.What can ya say

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eys i know about 4 or 5 year ago we went to leech lake (opener) and we have 14 people with us and we got lot of walleye but most are small and in my boat we keep over 14 inches and i was upset that another boat they keep 12 inches(4 walleye) and i told him to threw it back to water and let it grew and he said dont care and keep it so we have not invite him again no more

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To be honest with ya I am not sure but that larger eye never would have got there if it was kept at 12 inches.I see people keep so many small eyes and never give them a chance to grow into a healthy spawn.And it goes the other way to.Down in redwing at the dam you see people keep a limit of 20-26in milkin females in the spring full of spawn.Just venting I love to eat fish too but there not much to a 12inch eye.

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Isn't it better to keep a 12" walleye than say a 19" or larger walleye? I personally don't keep any of either size, but I would think that it's better to keep a small walleye that doesn't spawn than a healthy larger walleye ....

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I disagree. From what I have seen on Mille Lacs so far this year a 9 inch perch is a MONSTER, not a jumbo! Just kidding.

But it would be nice if more than 1 out of 25 were over 9 inches. I don't keep them anyway (not worth cleaning 3 or 4) but I can see how a guy would be tempted to keep some 9 inchers, as they are far and few between this year on the pond, at least for me anyway.

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jumbos a good check most ice fishermen has a 5 gal. pale with them, and if the perch touch both sides, across the top, 11 1/2 inches small jumbos

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10+ is a jumbo, personally i have had no problem getting a limit of over 10 inchers. but any walleye on the pond is a good one right now and if someone is spending alot of money on transportatrion and lodging they can keep 9 inchers if they want i have no problem with that. and that is not hurting the lake.

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